Brandon Belanger begins his fifth season on the ULM baseball staff in 2022. It is his first season as the Director of Player Development after spending the previous four seasons as assistant coach and camp coordinator.
Belanger will work with the development of the entire player, giving ULM baseball players more resources on the field and off the field, as well as in the future workforce.
Belanger previously served as an assistant coach with the ULM baseball program. His duties included coaching first base, assisting with the pitching staff, organizing camps and field maintenance.
At ULM, Belanger has helped coach four MLB Draft selections in Keegan Curtis (22nd round, 2018), Chad Bell (19th round, 2019), Trent Tingelstad (22nd round, 2019) and Trey Jeans (33rd round, 2019). The Warhawks have increased their win total in each of Belanger’s first two seasons, seeing a 12-win improvement in 2018 and a four-win improvement in 2019.
Belanger was invited to be a featured speaker at the 2020 American Baseball Coaches Association convention in Nashville, Tenn. Belanger presented on the topic “Outfield Play: The Hyperfocused Way.”
Belanger began his coaching career at his alma mater Tulane University in 2002, where he helped develop six players who were selected in the Major League Draft, including five who reached the big leagues.
The Houma, Louisiana, native began his collegiate playing career at Copiah Lincoln Community College in Wesson, Mississippi. During his two-year career at Co-Lin, Belanger earned all-conference, all-state and NJCAA All-America honors while setting the single-season record for strikeouts (94 in 1998). He was inducted into the Co-Lin Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.
Following his two-year stint at Co-Lin, Belanger finished his collegiate career at Tulane where his 41 appearances and 16 saves in 1999 remain single-season records. He was selected first-team All-Conference USA and first-team All-American by Collegiate Baseball Magazine after ranking among the NCAA leaders in saves (tied for third with 16) and ERA (11th at 2.59) as a junior in 1999. Belanger helped the Green Wave claim the 1999 C-USA title to go along with back-to-back trips to the NCAA Regionals. He closed out his two-year career with a then school-record 27 saves. In 2013, Belanger became a member of the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame.
He earned an associate’s degree from Copiah Lincoln Community College in 1998 and a bachelor’s degree in social science from Tulane in 2002. Belanger and his wife Angie have been married for 18 years, and the couple has three children: Brock, Brody and Brady.
