Coaching Experience:
Assistant Coach, Rhode Island (2012-Present)
Head Coach, New Haven (2007-11)
Associate Head Coach, New Haven (2006)
Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator, Brown (2001-2005)
Assistant Coach, Massachusetts (1998-2000)
Head Coach, Rhode Island Gulls (1999)
Volunteer Assistant Coach, Rhode Island (1997)
Assistant Coach, New York Knickerbockers (1996)

Raphael Cerrato enters his first year on head coach Jim Foster's Rhody baseball staff in 2011-12, previously serving as a volunteer assistant for the Rams during the 1997 season. A 1994 URI graduate, Cerrato returns after spending the past five seasons as the head coach at New Haven, where he led the Chargers to a 131-97 (.575) record during the span.

In 2009, New Haven joined the Northeast-10 Conference and instantly made its presence known by earning a trip to the conference tournament semifinals. The following year, UNH appeared in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006 while closer Mitch Rossi became the first Charger to earn All-America honors in three years.

In 2008, catcher Michael Moras was a 20th-round selection in the MLB First-Year Player Draft, following Cerrato became just the second head coach in the history of the UNH baseball program on July 1, 2006. He replaced Frank "Porky" Vieira, who founded and coached the Charger baseball program for 44 years.

Cerrato had joined Vieira's staff as UNH's associate head coach in June of 2005, following a five-year stint as an assistant coach at Brown University. There, he served as the Bears' hitting, outfield and infield instructor and coordinated student-athlete recruitment.

Before his time at Brown, Cerrato spent three years as the top assistant at Massachusetts, coordinating recruiting and the organization of UMass' youth clinics.

Cerrato has also managed the Rhode Island Gulls of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) - a prestigious summer league sanctioned by the NCAA and funded by Major League Baseball - in addition to spending time as an assistant coach with the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of the Northeastern Collegiate Baseball League.

An Enfield, Conn. native and 1994 graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Cerrato was a member of the Rhody baseball team from 1989-1993, earning All-Conference honors in 1992 and captaining the Rams in 1993.