Patrick McKenna

Assistant Baseball Coach & Assistant Director of Admissions - Massachusetts Maritime Academy (Div 3) Former Pro Baseball (2yrs)| Mental Performance Coach 🧠

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

Grateful to announce that I’ve accepted the role of Assistant Pitching Coach / Mental Performance Coach with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod League this summer. @WarehamGatemen

[Paul McCarthy III @25paulmccarthy]

First throws back! Thank you @drchrisahmad @MoveStrngPT @coachpmckenna

[Massachusetts Maritime Baseball @bucs_base]

The @mascacsports announced their All Conference teams today and the @Maritime_Bucs had four players named. OF Nate Kaczynski and C Colsen Loughren were named to the 1st team while OF Jake Duffy and OF/DH Damon White were named to the 2nd team.

#BucBall🏴‍☠️
#oneteamonefaMily⚓️

[Massachusetts Maritime Baseball @bucs_base]

Congratulations to our guys OF Nate Kaczynski on being named @mascacsports POY and OF Aidan McCarthy on being named @mascacsports ROY!
#BucBall🏴‍☠️
#oneteamonefaMily⚓️

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

You’re not trying to eliminate pressure.

You’re training how to respond to it.

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

You don’t need to be calm all the time.
You just need to be in control of your response

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

Notice how the GPS never says
"you made a mistake"

It just says
“recalculating"

In 2026 let's embrace the detours:
Adjust course and keep moving forward

[Kishwaukee College Athletics @kougarathletics]

Signing alert ✍️ - Excited to announce another 2026 recruit signing ... welcome to the Baseball program and Kougars Athletics Family !! - Brody Butts, Creek Wood HS #KishFam ⚾️

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

Today's Lesson:

No matter your age, you'll always wish you started younger. But today is the youngest you'll ever be.

Read it again.

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

There's so much power in believing that everything will work out even when you don't know how or when.
You just believe that it will.

[Massachusetts Maritime Baseball @bucs_base]

Thankful for family, thankful for friends and very thankful for Buccaneers🏴‍☠️

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

If you play 30 minutes go all out.
If you play 15 minutes go all out.
If you play 5 minutes go all out.
If you play 1 minute go all out.
If you don't get in, go all out being the most vocal person cheering your teammates on.
Coaches will take notice.
Make a difference.

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

Be the thermostat, not the thermometer..

You set the tone. You set the temperature.

Not the noise, not the mood of others, not the circumstances.

Your energy sets the climate for everyone around you.

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

Your competition isn't other people.

Your competition is your procrastination. Your ego. The unhealthy food you're consuming, the knowledge you neglect. The negative behavior you're nurturing & your lack of creativity.

Compete against that.

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

Every day gives you two choices- See problems or possibilities. Complain or be grateful. Live in fear or live in faith. The difference between a heavy heart and a peaceful one is perspective. Gratitude and joy aren't feelings they're decisions. Choose them, and your life changes.

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

Don’t wait until you're confident to show up

Show up until you're confident.

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

Players don’t experience your intentions, they experience your behavior.

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

How you speak to yourself matters.

How you think of yourself matters.

How you treat yourself matters.

[Patrick McKenna @coachpmckenna]

A lot of people wait for perfect conditions to start.

Don't realize that starting is the perfect condition.

[Massachusetts Maritime Baseball @bucs_base]

Due to our summer Prospect Day being sold out, Coach Kelley and staff have decided to hold another Prospect Day on 10/12 on the campus of Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Please see the poster below or contact Coach Kel ([email protected]) for info. Go Bucs!
#oneteamonefaMily