Matt Rembielak - Baseball Coach - Bowling Green State University Athletics

Matt Rembielak

Title:
Associate Head Baseball Coach
Email:
mattr@bgsu.edu
Phone:
419-372-7095

Matt Rembielak enters his sixth season as assistant baseball coach in 2026 and his fifth as the recruiting coordinator, being promoted following the 2021 campaign. Rembielak was a four-year letterwinner on the diamond at Akron.

During his fifth season with the Falcons in 2025, Rembielak and the Falcons put together another historic campaign. As a team, BGSU broke the program record for strikeouts in a season for the second straight year with 431 while also setting the record of innings pitched with 480.1 as well as fielding putouts with 1,441. The team also recorded an 11-game winning streak, tied for the third-longest in program history. Bowling Green tallied 33 wins over the course of the season, the first time with back-to-back 30-win seasons for the team since 2001-02. At the season conclusion, both Garrett Wright and Connar Penrod were named All-MAC First Team while Wright took home the MAC Defensive Player of the Year honor. In total, Wright broke three program records while Penrod broke one, being saves in a season with 12.

During his fourth season with Bowling Green in 2024, Rembielak assisted the Falcons to a program record 24 MAC wins while also tying the program record for MAC winning percentage (.800, 24-6). Bowling Green captured the MAC Regular Season title, the program's first since 2009. Additionally, BGSU had nine players receive a program record 14 All-Conference honors at the conclusion of the regular season. As a team, the Falcons broke the program records for walks drawn (310), strikeouts thrown (403) and fielding percentage (.976). Offensively, the Falcons averaged 9.2 runs per game, ranking eighth in the nation, registered a program record 33 RBI in a game against Ball State and scored the second-most runs in program history for a game with 34 against Ball State. In total, BGSU tied or broke nine records across program history for single-game, single-season and career.

In his third season with the Falcons, Rembielak assisted the Falcons to a win on the road over No. 5 Louisville by a score of 9-6 as well as an impressive 21-1 victory over Northern Illinois at home. BGSU closed out the season with a 16-5 victory over Toledo at Fifth Third Field to wrap up the season's Battle of I-75, splitting the four-game season series.

Following the season, the Orange and Brown had a pair of All-Americans. Kyle Gurney was named CSC Academic All-America, becoming just the second player in program history to receive the recognition multiple times. DJ Newman earned Freshman All-America honors from both Collegiate Baseball and NCBWA. As for MAC awards, Newman was named the MAC Freshman Pitcher of the Year and First-Team All-MAC as a DH. Nathan Archer was named MAC All-Defensive Team (OF) and Second-Team All-MAC while Gurney was named Second-Team All-MAC as well.

During his second season as an assistant at BGSU in 2022, Rembielak coached the Falcon offense to one of the program's most successful offensive outputs during the BBCOR era (since 2011). During that era, the 2022 season saw the most doubles (95), triples (17), home runs (46) and RBI (284) while producing the best slugging percentage (.442) and on-base percentage (.367) with the second-best batting average (.281).

In his first season as an assistant in 2021, Rembielak aided the Falcons to a 20-30 record, the first 20-win season for the program in six years. BGSU won six of its last seven games to finish with 18 Mid-American Conference victories, which marked the most conference wins for the Orange and Brown since 2010.

A number of young Falcons experienced breakout seasons in 2021. Kyle Gurney was named a freshman All-American and became just the program's third MAC Freshman of the Year. Gurney led all MAC freshmen in batting average (.333), total bases (89) and RBI (40). Gurney's 40 RBI are the most from a Bowling Green player in a single season since 2010. Furthermore, under the tutelage of Hallock, Nathan Rose became BGSU's first freshman in program history to earn First Team All-MAC honors. Rose started 40 games for the Falcons this past spring and hit .311 with a .403 on-base percentage. Rose led all MAC freshmen and ranked fifth in the entire conference with 14 doubles.

Additionally, corner infielder Adam Furnas was named the league's best defensive first baseman. Furnas ranked eighth in the league with a .435 on-base percentage, while his .335 batting average was the highest for a BGSU player since Kansas City Royals draft pick Brian Bien hit .350 for the Falcons in 2014.

To go along with the plethora of team and individual accolades on the diamond, the Falcons excelled in the classroom. Bowling Green placed a school-record 10 student-athletes on the Academic All-MAC Team.

Prior to arriving at BGSU, Rembielak was the volunteer assistant at Michigan State of the Big Ten Conference since May of 2019. Prior to his stop in East Lansing, Rembielak spent two seasons at Eastern Michigan, where he worked with EMU's hitters and outfielders. Rembielak also spent time as an assistant coach at Oberlin College from 2015-16.

A native of Akron, Rembielak was a four-year starter at shortstop for his hometown Zips from 2012-15. He went on to play one season for the Great Bend (Kan.) Boom, an independent baseball team, to conclude his playing career.

Rembielak graduated from UA with a degree in sport management in 2015. His father, Rick Rembielak, was a 20-year collegiate head coach, leading the Kent State, Wake Forest and Akron programs.