Ron
Hackett

World Championship Experience

• 2025 WBSC Men’s World Cup Finals (Head Coach) — Bronze Medal finish
• 2022 WBSC Men’s World Championship (Head Coach) – Bronze Medal finish; snapped an 18-year medal drought for the U.S. MNT program
• 2019 WBSC Men’s World Championship (Head Coach)

Career Highlights

• 2026 Men’s Pan American Championship (Head Coach) — 5th place finish
• 2025 World Games (Head Coach) — Gold Medal finish
• 2022 WBSC Men’s Pan American Championship (Head Coach)
• 2019 Pan American Games (Head Coach)

get to know…

Hackett has been involved with USA Softball as both an athlete or coach since 1991. As a player, Hackett competed at the grassroots level in the Men’s Open/Major division for Jac n Do’s Pizza and continued his playing career through 2002 for teams in the Philadelphia area. Following his playing career, Hackett went on to manage ESA Team in (2013-14) and the Northeast Drillers (2015-16) before joining the coaching staff for the Hallman Twins (2017-current), where he has helped lead the team to two third-place finishes at the USA Softball Men’s Major National Championship (2018-2019). Hackett joined the MNT as an Assistant Coach in 2019 and has helped lead the Red, White and Blue to a second-place finish at the Pan American Games and a fifth-place finish at the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) World Cup during the 2019 season. Hackett was named Head Coach at the end of 2019 upon Coach Gregg Leathers retirement and has led the team in events throughout the United States in 2020.