Alex Nahigian (April 3, 1919[1] – July 30, 2001[2]) was an American college baseball and football player and coach.
He was the head baseball coach at Providence (1960–1978) and Harvard (1979–1990), making a total of nine NCAA tournament appearances between the two schools.
[9][11][12][13][14][15] After graduating in 1942, Nahigian worked as a teacher and a high school baseball and football coach in Rhode Island.
[3][18] Nahigian replaced Loyal Park as Harvard's head baseball coach for the start of the 1979 season.
Nahigian was a Cambridge native, attended high school near Boston, and had served as an assistant football coach at Harvard from 1973 to 1975.
In 1985, Harvard shared the EIBL title with Princeton but was defeated in a playoff and did not reach the NCAA tournament.
In 1990, Nahigian's final season, Harvard participated in the first Baseball Beanpot, finishing as the runner-up to Boston College.