Nashua Silver Knights pitching coach Spencer Bergeron will warm up for the FCBL season by being the new head baseball coach of the Windham High School Jaguars. (Telegraph file photo by TOM KING)

NASHUA – Spencer Bergeron could be on a baseball field 365 days a year.

Or at least a facsimile thereof.

But now the Nashua Silver Knights pitching coach will have a team and a field to be on from late March through May before the Knights season starts. Bergeron, a 2016 graduate of Nashua North and a UMass Amherst alum was named this past week as the new head varsity baseball coach at Windham High School.

“It’s something I knew that potentially the last couple of years I wanted to get into,” Bergeron said of high school coaching. “I’d been keeping my open on different openings and when I saw that one open up I kind of jumped at the opportunity to see what they were about.

“Once all kids went to middle school or high school baseball, I had been in a lull for two months (from giving private lessons) and it was ‘What do I do’? Now that void is filled. There’ll be a week overlap or so with the Silver Knights where I’ll be running around crazy, but that’s OK – I never complain about baseball.”

The fairly close by location of WHS appealed to him, as it’s not far from Nashua so it’s an easy commute from his day job working for a local funeral home and also anything Silver Knight related at Holman Stadium.

Bergeron first met with a committee that had among others a couple of coaches, athletic director Jon Hall, a groundskeeper, head of the local youth baseball program, and a booster club member.

“The support seems like it’s going to be be totally there, which is a big thing,” Bergeron said. “And on the baseball side of things they’re giving me the leeway as the head coach to do things the way I want to be. … Have my spin on it.”

And that includes putting together his coaching staff, which he’s in the process of doing. One thing that helped make Bergeron an appealing candidate were his college connections, both from his UMass pitching days as well as his work with the Silver Knights. And thus Bergeron wants to create a program, not just coach a team.

“I can relate to the players as well as help them in life if they want to continue on (in baseball),” he said. “In the next couple of years, put a spin on things and (have the players) understand the expectations of Windham baseball.”

The next step for Bergeron will be to meet with the prospective players and then set up open gym workouts. The Jaguars went 8-11 last year and made the tournament.

Bergeron, who also pitched for the Silver Knights, has been their pitching coach since 2022, and expressed interest in the Knights managerial job after Kyle Jackson resigned that this past fall went to Nick Guarino but he was happy to stay on as pitching coach. Coaching the game is something that is in his DNA.

What type of a head coach does he think he’ll make?

“I think I hope to be, they always say a players coach, but when something needs to be done or be more stern with them, I can do that,” he said. “Players coach but also have the right respect … And as far as the new age of baseball and things like that, I said in the interview process I’m a new age coach with an old school mentality. The data and analytics is great but still have to have the feel of the game. … Where I kind of excel a little bit is look at the tendencies, look at the numbers and what they’re telling you, but look at the situation that’s actually going on, what’s the feel. I think that’s what’s kind of getting lost in baseball, the feel of it.”

Bergeron wants to “practice hard, practice fast, and get the games to slow down for us and make that the fun part to celebrate each other’s victories.”

He already has the week of May 1 on his calendar. He’ll bring the Jaguars to Holman for three straight games: vs. Nashua South on May 1, vs.

Bishop Guertin on May 2, and then vs. his alma mater North on May 7, all right now at 4 p.m.

“There’ll be a homecoming this year for sure, three different times,” Bergeron said.

And for his players, “Hopefully going to baseball will be the fun part of the day.”

It will be for Bergeron, that’s for sure.