Mark Woods is in his third season as an assistant coach at Bethany College. Prior to Bethany, he was the North Allegheny baseball coach. He has the longest tenure for coaching baseball at North Allegheny.
Coach Woods was the Head Coach for Freshmen and JV teams for 27 seasons and served as assistant coach and roving instructor for 3 years totaling 30 years at NA. Mark is considered by many in the baseball community the driving force and catalyst for the winning tradition of the NA Baseball Program. He created a winning attitude and mind-set enriched with player fundamental development and retention in a program suffering with decades of losing seasons and absence from the playoffs since 1956.
His first freshman team in 1981 (11-1) participated in the WPIAL playoffs in 1983, the first time since 1956. Mark was credited as the underlying force that created the Baseball Boosters in 1985. He organized and hosted the Doyle School of Baseball in 1986 at NA to conduct a weekend clinic for Western PA coaches. Coach Woods was the foundation and building block for successful North Allegheny Varsity teams achieving 25 consecutive years of reaching the baseball WPIAL playoffs (1986-2010) including 14 WPIAL championship games winning 7 and 5 PIAA championship games winning two.
As a head Coach (27 years) for Freshman Teams (22 years) and JV Teams (5 years) with a combined record of 384-103-1 (.789). His 1995 Freshman team went 21-0, which no NA baseball team has achieved.
Besides being a head coach for the high school level, Coach Woods coached summer and fall leagues 43 years with preadolescent (Little League), adolescent (Pony League), junior high (Colt League) and varsity level (Palomino) teams. Coach Woods also maintains a historical chronological archive collection of the NA Baseball Program from 1970 – 2018.
Coach Woods was a 1970 NA graduate and graduated from Edinboro State College in 1974.
