Pepicelli was named the Ted Thoren Head Coach of Baseball on Aug. 10, 2015, and is entering his 11th season at the helm of the Cornell baseball program in 2026.

Entering the 2026 season, Pepicelli has 113 wins as the Big Red's head coach, one of four head coaches in Cornell baseball history to reach the century mark for victories with the Big Red, joining Ted Thoren (515), Tom Ford (264), and Bill Walkenbach (130). Pepicelli's 100th career win with the Big Red came in its first-ever Ivy League Tournament game against Princeton, 9-7, at Robertson Field at Satow Stadium on the campus of Columbia University on May 17, 2024.

His 64 Ivy League victories also stand as the fourth-highest win total in conference play in program history, also trailing Thoren (193), Ford (139), and Walkenbach (69).

Under Pepicelli's tutelage, Cornell has produced 30 All-Ivy League selections — including nine First Team and Second Team selections — and one Rookie of the Year (Mark Quatrani in 2024). Four Big Red players have also been selected in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.

Cornell has succeeded in the field over the last two seasons, committing just 65 errors in 2,636 fielding opportunities, leading to a .975 fielding percentage that ranks 46th nationally, entering the 2025 College World Series. The Big Red's 30 errors were the fewest errors committed in Division I baseball and its .976 fielding percentage was the best clip in program history. Entering the 2026 season, Cornell is one of 23 Division I programs to have at least a .975 fielding percentage in each of the last two seasons (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Cal Poly, Dallas Baptist, Duke, Florida State, Fresno State, Kentucky, LSU, Michigan, NC State, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Oregon, Purdue, Rutgers, San Diego, UC Irvine, UTRGV, Vanderbilt, and Washington).

The 2024 campaign featured the Big Red posting an overall record of 17-21 with an 11-10 mark in Ivy League play, finishing with the third-best conference record in the Ancient Eight. Cornell's 11 victories against Ivy League opposition was the most under Pepicelli and the program's highest win output in conference games since 2013 (11-9).

Cornell's offense produced at a record level in 2024 behind its program-record 52 home runs, which shattering the previous mark (38 in 2009). The Big Red drove in 250 RBI, matching the output from 2012 for the most RBI in a single season. With its knack for registering extra-base hits, Cornell had the second-highest slugging percentage on record (.453), three points shy of tying the single-season record of .456 set in 1982. The program's 270 runs scored were the third-most in a season, trailing the 279 runs scored by the teams from 1982 and 2012, and its 393 hits on the season were the fourth-most in program history.

Cornell was recognized for its outstanding performance in the field as then-freshman catcher Mark Quatrani, then-junior infielder Max Jensen, and then-junior outfielder John Quinlan were named First Team All-Ivy selections. Jensen and Quinlan's were both unanimous selections. It was the first time since 1982 (Greg Myers — pitcher; Mike Branca — first base; Marlin McPhail — second base; John DeMayo — outfield) that at least three Cornell players were named First Team All-Ivy (or First Team All-EIBL, as was the case of 1982).

Pepicelli registered his 300th head coaching victory with a 13-3 win over crosstown rival Ithaca on April 4, 2023, in the program's home opener.

In just his second year at the helm, Pepicelli led the Big Red to a 21-17 record in 2017 to give the program its fourth winning season since 1991. Cornell also improved by two victories in Ivy League play to finish third in the Lou Gehrig Division, and Pepicelli helped develop a hitting approach that saw his team's bats explode for a season average of .295.

Cornell has won at least 14 games in all but three seasons, excluding the COVID-shortened 2020 season, with Pepicelli at the helm of the Big Red program.

Prior to his arrival on East Hill, Pepicelli spend six seasons at Clemson where the Tigers posted a 231-149 (.608) record. Pepicelli had three coaching titles during his six-year stay with Clemson, with his final three years serving as the associate head coach.

He became the Tigers’ first pitching coach to lead a staff to the College World Series in his first season with the squad. That year, the pitching staff posted the first of four consecutive seasons with an ERA below 4.00. Pepicelli recruited and developed Matt Crownover, who earned freshman All-America accolades in 2013 and ACC Pitcher of the Year honors in 2015, and was instrumental in assembling Baseball America’s ninth-ranked recruiting class in 2015. In total, 10 Clemson pitchers were selected in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft in Pepicelli’s tenure at Clemson.
 
By joining the Big Red, Pepicelli returned home to upstate New York, where he previously had 11 years of head coaching experience at the Division III level with St. John Fisher and Hartwick.

After serving as an assistant coach for three seasons at Hartwick, Pepicelli was promoted to become the Hawks’ head coach for the 1999 and 2000 seasons. He then spent nine seasons as the head coach and assistant athletic director at Fisher. Pepicelli was named the Empire 8 Conference Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2007, the latter honor coming during a season that saw the Cardinals advance to the NCAA Division III College World Series for the first time in program history.
 
Pepicelli's teams at St. John Fisher had winning records in his final seven seasons at the helm, and was previously the Cardinals' all-time leader in head coaching victories. His team in 2008 garnered national recognition for sportsmanship after a line-drive foul ball struck the opposing third-base coach in the head in the ninth inning of the play-in game of the 2008 ECAC Upstate Championship. Despite the fact that the Cardinals were trailing, Pepicelli and the team elected to concede the conclusion of the game and end any hope of a clinching the program's second consecutive NCAA tournament berth. The Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct presented Pepicelli’s team with the NCAA's All-Divisions Sportsmanship Award for its decision.
 
Along with being the baseball coach at St. John Fisher, Pepicelli also served as the head strength and conditioning coach where he spent three years on the NCAA Competitive Safeguards Committee. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and is a member of the National Strength & Conditioning Association.

A native of Schenectady, N.Y., and a graduate of Cicero-North Syracuse High School, Pepicelli played for three colleges in the region. He was an all-region selection in two seasons at Mohawk Valley Community College, before earning his bachelor of sciences degree in economics and management from SUNY Cortland after playing one season with the Red Dragons. He was also an all-conference pick in one season with Oneonta State.
 
Pepicelli is married to the former Robyn Molloy, who played for and served as an assistant coach with the Syracuse women’s soccer team. She also earned national titles as a player and coach at Monroe Community College. The couple has a daughter, Mia, and a son, Owen.

John Toppa is entering his fifth season with the Cornell baseball coaching staff, and his fourth season serving as a full-time assistant coach. Toppa served as a volunteer assistant coach during his first season with the program in 2022.

The Big Red have had 15 All-Ivy honorees during Toppa's tenure with the Big Red, including four First Team All-Ivy and five Second Team All-Ivy selections.

Two of the four First Team All-Ivy selections were awarded to catcher Mark Quatrani, who became the first Cornell player to repeat as a First Team All-Ivy honoree since Ryan Krainz (2017 and 2018).

Quatrani also earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors in 2024, marking the third player in program history to earn the honor, joining Bill Walkenbach (1995) and Kellen Urbon (2012). Quatrani hit 11 home runs and drove in 43 runs on the season, both figures tied for the second-most in program history. Along with his home run and RBI totals, Quatrani batted .362, which second in the Ivy League, and posted a 1.231 OPS (.492 on-base percentage and .712 slugging percentage).

In addition to Quatrani's Rookie of the Year honors, he was one of three Big Red players to earn First Team All-Ivy honors in 2024, joining Max Jensen and John Quinlan, who were both unanimously selections. It was the first time Cornell had at least three players receive First Team conference honors since 1982, when a quartet of Cornell players were honored (Greg Myers — pitcher; Mike Branca — first base; Marlin McPhail — second base; John DeMayo — outfield).

A two-year captain at UConn, Toppa played in three NCAA Tournaments and appeared in 222 games while making 211 starts with the Huskies. He graduated with the sixth-most hits in UConn history (237) and earned NCAA All-Oklahoma City Regional team honors as a senior after capping his final season with a career-high .326 average with career highs in runs (50), hits (76), doubles (14), home runs (4), RBI (35), walks (41), stolen bases (15), on-base percentage (.433), and slugging percentage (.438) en route to Second Team All-American Athletic Conference accolades. He also earned a spot on the AAC All-Tournament Team as a freshman in 2016.

During the summer of 2017, Toppa played for the Wareham Gatemen in the Cape Cod Baseball League, where he earned CCBL All-Star honors.

Toppa graduated from UConn in 2019 with a degree in political science and economics. He then spent two years as an investment sales associate at Ariel Property Advisors in New York City, before returning to the diamond as a coach for the Big Red in 2022.

Kyle Canavally joined the Cornell baseball coaching staff in July 2025, and is entering his first season as an assistant coach with the Big Red.

Canavally, whose main role will be working with the Big Red's pitching staff, arrives on East Hill after a four-year tenure as an assistant coach at SUNY Brockport, where the Golden Eagles posted a 120-50-2 (.703) overall record and a 57-19 (.750) mark in conference play. SUNY Brockport appeared in three NCAA Division III Baseball Tournaments and also secured two Empire 8 conference titles with Canavally on staff.

In addition to his assistant coaching duties, Canavally served as SUNY Brockport baseball's strength and conditioning coach during the 2022 and 2023 seasons and was an athletic trainer for the Golden Eagles' men's hockey, men's soccer, women's field hockey, and women's gymnastics teams.

The 2025 season saw SUNY Brockport baseball finish with an impressive 36-5-2 overall record and a 21-1-1 mark against Empire 8 competition. They swept the Empire 8 Championship and secured the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship. SUNY Brockport's pitching staff posted outstanding stats, including tying Denison for the most shutouts (8) while ranking in the top five in ERA (2.99 – 2nd), hits-per-9-innings (7.03 – 3rd), strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.08 – 3rd), strikeouts-per-9-innings (9.97 – 3rd), and WHIP (0.86 – 4th).

SUNY Brockport ranked in the top 30 nationally among Division III programs for strikeout-to-walk ratio and strikeouts-per-9-innings in all four years with Canavally on staff, and was in the top 10 for WHIP in three of those seasons.

A 2021 graduate of SUNY Brockport, Canavally was a three-year member of the Golden Eagles' baseball team, where he appeared in 20 career games and made five starts. He was a three-time recipient of the Outstanding Academic-Athletic Award and earned SUNY Brockport's Triple 'C' Award in 2020 for character, commitment, and coachability, as well as the Sharon E. Wexley Leadership Award in 2021.

Posting a 4-2 career record with a 3.65 earned-run average, Canavally limited opponents to a .206 batting average over his 49 1/3 innings pitched with the Golden Eagles. He spent his first two collegiate seasons at Onondaga Community College, where he went 6-2 in 21 appearances (12 starts) with a 3.61 ERA in 89 2/3 innings, striking out 89 batters. Four of Canavally's 12 starts ended as complete games, and he also recorded one save during his freshman season.

Originally from Schenectady, N.Y., Canavally earned his bachelor's degree in athletic training from Brockport and is currently pursuing his master's degree in fitness and leadership management at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Canavally is a Board of Certification (BOC) certified athletic trainer qualified in Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers from the American Heart Association and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). He is also a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA).