Upcoming Event: Baseball at Hawai'i on March 25, 2027
Baseball
at Hawai'i
Grand Canyon University Athletics
Baseball
Travis Fitta
- Title:
- Hitting Coach
Travis Fitta joined the GCU baseball staff as hitting coach in 2026, bringing a professional hitting development background built across Major League organizations and elite private training facilities.
Fitta arrives at GCU after spending the 2026 season in the Washington Nationals organization as a Triple-A hitting coach with the Rochester Red Wings. In that role, he worked directly with 40-man roster players and high-level prospects while managing individualized player-development plans, providing in-game coaching and adjustments, preparing scouting reports and leading advance meetings.
Before joining Washington, Fitta worked at Driveline Baseball from 2023 to 2026, serving as senior hitting trainer at the organization's Arizona facility before becoming hitting coordinator at Driveline's Tampa, Florida, facility. He oversaw hitting development for athletes ranging from MLB and Minor League players to college and high school hitters, with work that included advanced hitting assessments, swing profiling, batted-ball analysis, biomechanics evaluations and individualized athlete programming.
Prior to Driveline, Fitta served as director of player development and director of hitting at Ascent Athlete in Pennsylvania, producing 14 MLB Draft picks and 48 college commits. He also spent time with the Chicago Cubs organization as a Minor League hitting coach, responsible for the hitting development of Cubs Minor League hitters across multiple levels. His college experience includes a stint as Ohio's director of hitting development in 2019.
Before beginning his baseball development career, Fitta served in the U.S. Army from 2009 to 2015 as an infantryman.
"My family and I couldn't be more excited for the opportunity to join the GCU Baseball family," Fitta said. "This is a premier program primed to become the epitome of excellence in college baseball. I am pumped to get to Phoenix and get to work building a championship team with those players and staff."
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