The Manager

Since 1997, Deb Bettencourt has been involved in coaching as well as organizing baseball, more specifically for the Pawtucket Slaterettes. She serves as a board member and currently works as the league’s player agent. In 2004, Deb established the Rhode Island Women’s Baseball League (RIWBL), which serves to direct players to places that they can go to play.

So, what is a day like in the life of a baseball administrator and what goes through a baseball administrator’s head? You’re about to find out…

“My typical day is mostly baseball. I get up, pretty much everyday at 5:30…and I am guilty of this 95 percent of the time, I will check my email before I go to the bathroom…just to see how many baseball emails have come through. I have five different email accounts, but my baseball ones get (the most). It’s just because I’m a baseball administrator. Everybody’s got questions. So I’m doing that for the first hour of my day while I’m eating my Cheerios or whatever.”

Deb gets to work at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island around 8:30am and leaves at 4:30pm. Luckily, her work is flexible and allows her to leave early to go to games. Games start at 5:30pm, and she usually gets there around quarter of five or five o’clock. Even if she doesn’t have a game to coach, she’s down there starting the concession stand and making sure everyone else shows up. She usually finished at the ball field by 7:30 or 8:00pm, and then she finally gets to go home to watch the Red Sox.

“I would say 50% of my day is baseball, during the season. During the off season, I would say about 40%.”