Brett Swain enters his fourth season with the Omaha baseball staff in 2019. He enters his third season as the program's pitching coach after transitioning from the role of volunteer assistant in 2017.
In 2019, Swain assisted the Maverick program in its first berth to the NCAA Division I Baseball Regional with a Summit League Regular Season and Tournament title. The team also had the nation's highest fielding percentage at .984 and saw eight Mavericks garner All-Summit honors. On the mound, Swain coached three All-Summit performers in Payton Kinney, Cal Hehnke and Grant Suponchick. Kinney finished the campaign tied for the program's record in wins (11) and set a new single-season record for innings pitched (115.0). Kinney also garnered Summit League Pitcher of the Year and Tournament MVP honors.
A native of Omaha, Swain was an athletic academic assistant at UNO in 2015-16. He was also an assistant baseball coach at Skutt Catholic High School from 2011-16.
As a collegiate player, Swain played two seasons at Fort Scott CC (2011-12) and one year at Creighton (2013). At Fort Scott, he was a second-team All-Jayhawk Conference selection as a freshman and an honorable mention pick as a sophomore.
Swain graduated with his bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Nebraska in 2015.
