Baseball | 7/1/2025 1:21:00 PM

Utah Tech head baseball coach Chris Pfatenhauer announced on Tuesday the addition of Quentin McGrath as the program's new pitching coach.
 
McGrath joins the Trailblazer program after serving the past four seasons as pitching coach at Biola University. 
 
"We couldn't be more excited to add Coach McGrath to our Baseball Family," Coach Pfatenhauer said. "He has a wealth of knowledge and a track record of developing pitchers. We welcome he and his wife Courtney with open arms to St. George."
 
McGrath oversaw an Eagles pitching staff that was ranked in the top-six in the Pacific West Conference in strikeouts in each of the last four seasons. Biola pitchers combined for 409 punch outs in his first season in 2022, which ranked as the fourth-most in the program since 1970.
 
McGrath also mentored left-handed hurler Connor Butler, who was selected in the 20^th-round (#609 overall) by the Boston Red Sox in the 2022 Major League Baseball June Amateur Draft. That season, Butler struck out 47 batters in just 22.0 innings pitched out of the Eagle bullpen while holding opposing hitters to a minuscule .071 average. 
 
Prior to his time in southern California, McGrath spent three seasons as pitching coach at Missouri Southern State, where he helped the Lions pitching staff compete at a high level and break several school records. 

In 2019, the Missouri Southern pitching staff broke the school's single-season strikeout record (558), which was five punch outs shy of the Mid-America Intercollege Athletics Association's (MIAA) season record, as the Lions earned an NCAA Division II Central Regional tournament appearance. 

On the individual side, McGrath coached Zach Parish, a left-handed pitcher who broke the single-season school strikeout record (136) in 2019, and later became the MIAA conference career strikeout leader (488). Parish went on to become a two time All-American, and the 2021 NCAA Division II National Pitcher of the Year, before signing with the Texas Rangers as an undrafted free agent. 

A native of Yorba Linda, Calif., McGrath played collegiately at Golden West College and at D-II Washburn (KS) University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Washburn in 2017, and completed work on his Master of Science in Education degree from Missouri Southern State in 2020.