DJ Price joined the baseball staff as a volunteer assistant coach in the spring of 2021. He was promoted to full-time assistant and head of the junior varsity program in the fall of 2021. In the summer of 2024, he took over the helm of the varsity program, becoming the seventh head coach in program history.
In his first season leading the varsity, he coached the team to a 24-26 record, 12-18 in the Sunshine State Conference. Felix Diaz was named Second-Team All-SSC, while Joe Wike, Kevin Mebil, Jimmy Bruno and Collin McLaughlin earned Academic All-District honors.
In three seasons leading the JV program, he led the team to a 41-19-1 mark and saw several players make impacts on the varsity team, including Freddy Rodriguez and Billy Eich.
Originally from Bronx, N.Y., he graduated and played baseball for Fordham Preparatory School and Iona College, earning his undergraduate degree in 2003. After college he traveled across the world, playing professionally and coaching in the Greater Brisbane Baseball League in Australia for the Toowoomba Rangers.
Price most recently spent five years as an assistant coach at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he was the outfield/hitting coach and third base coach. In his first year of coaching the Lightning, they led the country in NCAA Division III baseball in home runs per game (1.14). In the summer of 2020, he served as a coach in the Collegiate League of the Palm Beaches with the Palm Beach Snowbirds. He also put together several tournament winning teams while producing hundreds of college-bound student-athletes at the Highlander Training Academy in New York. As the head of baseball/softball training at the HTA, he created many drills and exercises to address speed, agility, and quickness as well as strength and endurance specifically for baseball and softball.
Price has been in and around the strength and conditioning industry for almost 20 years as a master trainer for the National Sports Performance Association and is also a Certified Personal Trainer (CPT), Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES) and Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES) with the National Academy of Sports Medicine. He is also a certified USA Weightlifting Coach and uses several other modes, including TRX and kettlebell training, to keep his athletes in shape.
