Pete Maus is in his ninth season as an assistant baseball coach at St. Olaf in 2023-24.
Maus joined head coach Matt McDonald's staff after a 30-year stint as the head coach at Northfield High School. In his final year, the Raiders finished fourth in the Class 3A state tournament in 2015. At Northfield High School, Maus' teams won more than 350 games and five conference championships, appeared in the section final four three times and his 2002 team placed third in the Class A state tournament.
He was named the Section 1AAA Coach of the Year in 2002, the Missota Conference Coach of the Year five times and the Northfield Coach of the Year in 2000. In addition to his high school coaching duties, Maus was instrumental in founding and sustaining the Northfield Youth Baseball Association, which has over 900 participants annually.
Maus attended Bemidji State University, where he was a four-year letterwinner in baseball while excelling as both a pitcher and a catcher. Before graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1979, he was an all-conference and all-district catcher in 198 and an all-conference and all-district pitcher in 1979. Maus returned to BSU as an assistant coach, helping the Beavers to the College World Series in 1982.
Maus and his wife, Lynda, have five children, Ryan, Josh, Celeste, Sam and Tim, and make their home in Northfield. Josh ('08), Sam ('14), and Tim ('16) all played baseball at St. Olaf.
