Mike Atan enters his eighth season as assistant baseball coach at SUNY Old Westbury. Since arriving on campus, Atan has enjoyed plenty of success as Old Westbury has advanced to Skyline Conference Championship play in each of his seven seasons. Atan was also recognized as a member of head coach Rod Stephan’s back-to-back Skyline Conference Coaching Staff of the Year awards in 2011 and 2012.
Prior to Old Westbury, Atan served as recruiting coordinator at Suffolk County Community College (2009- 10), where he delivered the talent to capture the 2009 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Regional Championship, followed by a championship round appearance in 2010.
Atan has spent summers coaching talented pro prospects from the ranks of Division I, II and III levels along with junior college All-Americans. Since 2013, Atan has served as the general manager for the New York Cardinals, who currently have three teams in the North Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League (NACBL) Summer College Baseball League. Under Atan’s watch, the Cardinals captured two championships (2013, 2015) and reached the finals in 2014. In September 2016, Atan was appointed as the director of travel for Long Island Storm Sports Academy, and also serves as collegiate coordinator for the Nor’Easters. In 2016, he helped guide the Long Island Storm Baseball to the 2016 Long Island Collegiate Baseball League (LICBL) Championship. During his two seasons as coach of the New York Thunder, Atan advanced his team to one championship game. He also coached the Long Island Nationals under-18 division, where he won four championships and four second-place titles in two years.
He resides in West Islip, New York, with his son Steven, who was a member of Old Westbury's baseball team during the 2009 season.
