Announced in July 2021 as an assistant coach, Trapasso enters his first year working with the Mids' pitching staff in 2022.
In 2022, Trapasso oversaw a Midshipmen pitching staff that featured the Patriot League saves leader in Landon Kruer. The freshman posted seven saves and a 1.89 ERA over 19 innings of work, along with striking out 17 batters and limiting opposing hitters to just a .182 batting average against.
Nolan Jorgenson also proved to make a jump in his sophomore campaign under the direction of Trapasso, totaling a 3.40 ERA over a team-high 21 appearances and 42.1 innings pitched. Jorgenson also picked up a save and struck out 17 batters along with walking just seven.
Midshipmen pitchers combined to allow the fourth-lowest batting average against in the league (.298), along with totaling the third-most saves (10) and allowing the third-fewest hits (452).
Trapasso joined the Navy coaching staff after spending the previous 20 seasons as the head coach of the Hawai'i baseball program.
In his 20 years as the head coach of the Rainbow Warriors, Trapasso recorded 536 victories including eight seasons of 30 wins or more. He guided Hawai'i to multiple NCAA Regional appearances.
Additionally, Trapasso coached 13 All-Americans, 27 All-Big West selections, 52 All-WAC honorees and 80 academic all-conference selections. Along with the collegiate honors earned under the tutelage of Trapasso, 43 of his student-athletes were selected in the Major League Baseball draft.
Prior to becoming the head coach at Hawai'i, Tapasso served as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech, USF and Missouri.
For his efforts, Trapasso was inducted into the Greater St. Louis Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015 along with being named the 2006 National Baseball Coach of the Year by the National Baseball Foundation. In addition to his national honors, Trapasso is a three-time WAC Coach of the Year honoree.
Trapasso was also an outstanding player at Jefferson College in Missouri (1982-83), which is one of the premier junior colleges, and at Oklahoma State (1984-85).
At Jefferson College, he was a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award, which is bestowed annually to the best amateur baseball player, while at Oklahoma State he led the Big Eight Conference and was fifth in the country in ERA allowing just 1.42 earned runs per game.
