Lyall Foran is in his first season as a student assistant coach with the NSU baseball team. His main areas of responsibility will be to work with the catchers and help with hitting instruction.
A former NSU backstop, Foran was a first-team All-MEAC selection at catcher in his lone year playing for the Spartans (2007). He led the team that year in batting (.368), doubles (15) and runs batted in (38) while finishing second on the team in home runs, with four. Foran was also chosen to the first team of the Black College Baseball Elite squad that season.
Since finishing his collegiate career, Foran has remained active as a coach and instructor for youth baseball in his native British Columbia. NSU’s first-ever Canadian player, Foran has coached the under-16 and under-14 British Columbia teams at the Arizona Fall Classic. In addition he has also coached the U16 and U15 B.C. teams at the Pacific Northwest Championships.
Foran was an assistant with the Langley Blaze baseball club in the fall of 2007 and still serves as head assistant coach of the Medicine Hat Moose Monarchs American Legion baseball team. Additionally, Foran has worked as a personal trainer for two 2009 MLB draftees, Wes Darvil (Chicago Cubs sixth rounder) and Carter Morrison (Cincinnati Reds 16th rounder).
A native of Delta, British Columbia, Foran is completing his degree in physical education from NSU this year.
