Anthony Perry ’08 was named an Assistant Baseball Coach prior to the begining of the 2023-24 academic year. This will be his fourth season and second stinit as an Assistant Baseball Coach here at Fisher. 

Prior to his return to Beacon Street, Perry served as the Sports Information Director and Head Baseball Coach at Rivier University, a NCAA Division III member in Nashua, New Hampshire. As the Head Coach of the Baseball program, Perry helped turn around a program in his first five years in guiding the Raiders to a pair of Great Northeast Athletic Conference tournament appearances and departing as the program’s all-time winningest skipper. Perry finished runner-up for the 2015 GNAC Baseball Coach of the Year award and saw numerous student-athletes earned All-Conference accolades.

A true Champion of Character, Perry served as the Tournament Director for the 2014 Association of Independent Institutions (now the CAC) Baseball Tournament in Lynn, Massachusetts along with the 2011 NAIA East-Coast Unaffiliated Baseball Series at the USA Baseball National Development Complex in Cary, North Carolina. He was also presented with the Dennis Bistany Character Award at the 2015 Fisher College Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet for his outstanding character in sport.

Perry began his college coaching career immediate after graduation from Fisher. He was an assistant coach for Head Coach Scott Dulin for three seasons (2009-2011) before being hired at Rivier. Over those three seasons, the Falcons caputred three consecutive Sunrise Conference championships and made appearances in the NAIA post-season. 

As a student-athlete, Perry helped the Falcons Baseball program to their first-ever Sunrise Conference championship as a freshman and finished as a four-time conference and NAIA Region X champion. He was named to the Sunrise Conference All-Conference team three times, the NAIA Region X All-Region team three times, and finished as a runner-up in both Sunrise Conference Rookie of the Year (2005) and Player of the Year (2008). After finishing his 176-game career in the Falcon pinstripes, Perry became the first-ever Fisher student-athlete to sign a professional contract when he agreed to terms with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the independent Atlantic League. He spent two seasons in as a player in professional baseball before returning home to Boston and starting his career in college athletics. He was enshrined into the Fisher College Atheltics Hall of Fame in 2010. 

A native of Andover, Massachusetts, Perry played two years of varsity baseball at Andover High – capturing the Merrimack Valley Conference championship in 2004. During his sophomore (2002), junior (2003) and senior (2004) summers, Perry was the bullpen catcher for the Nashua Pride – an independent league team managed by former Boston Red Sox manager and player, Butch Hobson. Perry remained in this role as bullpen catcher while home during the summer as a Fisher student-athlete and earned a Canadian-American League championship in the summer of 2007.

Outside of the Fisher community, Perry is still active in the game of baseball. He is the manager for the Andre Chiefs of the Intercity Baseball League, one of the longest standing amateur franchises in Boston, and helped guide them to an ICL Championship in 2023. He is also a part of the coaching staff for the New Balance Future Stars Series and Program 15, having served as the bullpen coach for the NBFFS Main Event at Citi Field (home of Major League Baseball’s New York Mets) in 2021 and has been with Program 15 since 2011.

Perry earned his Bachelors of Science Degree in Management from Fisher College in 2008. He then went on to earn his Masters of Science Degree – Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Sport Administration from Fisher in 2022. He is the son of the late Jo-Anne Perry and Joseph Perry, along with being the older brother of Christopher Perry.