Rob Grow, RIT’s all-time leader in coaching wins and 2006 RIT Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, begins his 31st season at the helm of the Tiger baseball squad in 2023.
 
In 2017, Grow and the Tigers enjoyed their finest season in program history, winning the Liberty League Championship for the first time, while making their first NCAA Division III Baseball Championship appearance.
 
The 2018 Tigers won 20 games and advanced to the Liberty League Championship Tournament for the third time in the last four seasons. Nine players earned All-Liberty League honors, while a pair (Brett Bouchard and Patrick Mylott) garnered All-Region accolades.
 
RIT set single-season program records for most wins (33), highest winning percentage (.785), highest fielding percentage (.973), runs scored (317), hits (432), doubles (105), home runs (23), runs batted in (287), total bases (642), slugging percentage (.452), and walks (191) during the 2017 season. The pitching staff re-wrote the school record book that year with the most strikeouts (319), shutouts (4), strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.22), and lowest WHIP (1.19) in program history.
 
Defensively, RIT was seventh nationally with a .973 fielding percentage and overall, its .786 winning percentage (33-9 overall record) was ninth best in Division III. RIT had two separate 14-game winning streaks as part of a 28-1 run heading into the NCAA Tournament. RIT set a Liberty League record by going 22-1 during the regular season, winning 19 straight contests in league play. A program record 12 Tigers earned All-Liberty League honors, while six were named to the ABCA/Rawlings and All-New York Region team. Grow and his coaching staff were named the 2017 Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year, while Will Gorman was named the Liberty League Player of the Year and Brian Reed was the Pitcher of the Year.
 
Gorman, also named 2017 RIT co-Senior Male Athlete of the Year, garnered ABCA All-New York Region honors for the third season and became the first Tiger since 1983 to be selected in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. He also became RIT’s all-time leader with 27 career home runs, 155 RBIs, 343 total bases and a .641 slugging percentage.
 
In 2015, Grow and the Tigers enjoyed a tremendous year, finishing with a 23-15 record, while advancing to the Liberty League Championship game for the first time. In 2016, RIT won 18 games, as Gorman set single-season records for home runs, RBIs, hits, and total bases, while pitcher Brandon Cohall broke the university all-time mark for career shutouts.
 
In recent seasons, Grow has coached several players who have smashed countless single-season and career-records, including two-time CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-America selection Justin Smith, who is RIT’s all-time leader in stolen bases. Grow recruited and coached Geoff Dornes (2007-10), who was named the Empire 8 Player of the Year three times in four seasons and was a 2017 inductee into the RIT Sports Hall of Fame. Walt Roman, a 2014 graduate, was hit by pitch a school-record 68 times, sixth most in Division III history. Skip Flanagan, a 2015 graduate, signed a professional contract with the Old Orchard Beach Surge for their inaugural season in the North Country Baseball League (NCBL).
 
The Tigers finished the 2006 season with a 24-16 record, which at the time, set a program record, and won the ECAC Upstate Championship for the second time in school history. In 2007, the Tigers tied the record with 24 wins.
  
On March 24, 2002, Grow became the program’s all-time leader in coaching victories, breaking Bruce Proper’s record of 154 wins. On May 5, 2004, he recorded his 200th victory at RIT, with an 11-3 win over Keuka. On April 19, 2009, Grow earned his 300th career coaching win at RIT, leading the Tigers to a 7-2 win over Utica. His 400th victory came in dramatic fashion on April 15, 2015, as Gorman slammed a go-ahead grand slam in a 7-5 victory over Clarkson. He enters 2019 with a 481-449-2 career record.

A member of the Empire 8 conference from 2000-2011, Grow coached 100 All-Empire 8 selections. Since moving to the Liberty League in 2012, 28 different players have earned all-league honors. He has also mentored 31 ABCA/Rawlings All-Stars, including the 2007 Empire 8 Pitcher of the Year, Dylan Rees. Four of Grow’s former players, Colin Bradley, Tim Hern, Andy Schild and Dornes are in the RIT Sports Hall of Fame.

Grow is a 1988 graduate of RIT, where he played three years of baseball for the Tigers as an outfielder. He is among the career leaders in runs scored, walks and on-base percentage. In 1988, he set the Tiger single-season record with a .554 on-base percentage.

After graduating with a bachelor's degree in business, Grow was an assistant coach at Rush-Henrietta High School. In 1990, he helped guide the squad to a Section V title.

In addition to his duties as full-time head baseball coach, Grow is also the athletics department liaison to the alumni relations department at RIT and chairperson of the RIT Athletics Hall of Fame. He resides in Victor with his wife Suzanne, sons, Casey and Brady, and daughter Riley.