East Carolina’s baseball program has announced its next director of player development.
Below is a press release with more details.
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Former East Carolina Baseball All-American Bryant Packard has been named the director of player development according to an announcement by head coach Cliff Godwin Monday.
Packard will work with Godwin and his staff in a variety of roles, including player video analysis.
Packard, who was selected in the fifth round of the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft by the Detroit Tigers and spent four seasons in the organization, served the Pirates the last two years as a graduate assistant. During that time frame, he helped ECU to a pair of NCAA Regional Finals (2024/Greenville, 2025/Conway), a regular season American Athletic Conference Championship (2024) and the AAC Tournament title (2025).
As a player at ECU, he was named to a record-tying eight All-America Teams, a unanimous First-Team All-AAC honoree (2018-19), AAC Player of the Year (2018), two-time NCAA All-Regional member (2018-19), an ABCA All-Region selection (2018), member of the Collegiate National Team (2018) an a three-time AAC All-Academic member. In all, he appeared in 156 games making 141 starts, batted .359 (201-for-560) with 22 home runs, 44 doubles, 58 walks and 1012 RBI.
In the Pirate annuals, Packard holds the longest hit streak in program history (32 games in 2018), while his .359 career batting average is third all-time and his 37 game on-base streak is tied for sixth-longest (2017). The 2018 season was his best in the Purple and Gold where he became the 16th player at ECU to claim the Triple Crown leading the team in in batting average (.406), home runs (14) and RBI (50), while also leading the Pirates in hits (89) and runs scored (51).
Packard was a member of two NCAA Greenville Regional hosts teams (2018 and 2019) where the Pirates garnered a pair of national seeds, an AAC Tournament title (2018), an AAC regular season crown (2019) and a 2019 Super Regional appearance (at Louisville) after claiming the Greenville Regional title.