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Coaching Staff
Brad Phillips
Assistant Coach
Brad Phillips joined the Jaguar program for the 2019 season after spending the previous eight seasons at Troy. During his tenure with the Trojans, Phillips coached two Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Year recipients, one SBC Freshman of the Year and one SBC Newcomer of the Year.
The Troy pitching staff ranked third in the SBC in ERA (3.79) in 2016, earning Phillips the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year award. In 2013, the Trojan pitching staff ranked fifth nationally in strikeouts per nine innings (8.6).
Phillips joined the Troy staff in 2010 after serving as head coach at both Niceville (Fla.) High School and Charles Henderson (Ala.) High School, and helped lead CHHS to four straight Alabama High School Athletic Association playoff appearances and was named the AHSAA Class 5A Region 2 Coach of the Year four consecutive times as well as the Dothan Eagle Super 12 Coach of the Year in 2008. He helped NHS to back-to-back playoff appearances during his tenure there, and was named the 2009 Northwest Daily News Coach of the Year.
The Hazel Green, Ala., native played collegiately at Gadsden State (Ala.) Community College and the University of Montevallo before earning his degree at Troy in 2004. He also served as a volunteer assistant at Troy in the 2003-04 seasons.
Nick Magnifico
Assistant Coach / Recruiting Coordinator
Nick Magnifico joined the Jaguar baseball staff as hitting coach and recruiting coordinator in October 2020 after serving in the same role the previous season at Southern Illinois.
In Magnifico's only season at SIU, the Salukis led the Missouri Valley Conference in batting average, hits, walks, doubles, on-base percentage and stolen bases. The Salukis ranked among the national leaders in stolen bases (fourth), walks (14th), doubles (16th) and hits (17th).
Defensively, SIU led the MVC in fielding percentage and double plays. The Salukis turned 18 double plays in 18 games, which ranked ninth nationally.
After the 2020 season, SIU was named the MVC's most surprising team by D1Baseball. Magnifico coached Ian Walters, who was one of the nation's best hitters in 2020, ranking second in the country in hits. Walters led the MVC in hits, doubles, stolen bases, assists and on-base percentage. Magnifico also coached Evan Martin, who was named a Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball, the program's first outfielder to earn Freshman All-America honors since 2007.
Magnifico also led SIU's recruiting efforts that resulted in the nation's No. 10-ranked junior college recruiting class by Baseball America.
In Magnifico's first season at Corpus Christi in 2018, he helped lead the Islanders to their first winning record in five years. After TAMCC was at least 10 games under .500 in both 2016 and 2017, Magnifico helped the Islanders to back-to-back 30-win seasons in 2018 and 2019. In his first season, Magnifico's offense led the Southland Conference in batting average, runs, hits and RBIs. Five of his offensive players earned All-Conference honors, which led the league. In addition to TAMCC leading the league in team hitting, Itchy Burts took home the league's individual batting title.
Coaching at Central Missouri in 2017, Magnifico's offense led the league in total bases, slugging, OBP and stolen bases. In a 32-win season, Central Missouri hit .313 with 106 doubles, 25 triples, and 53 home runs while averaging 7.6 runs per game. Seven of his players earned All-Conference honors, which led the league.
Magnifico began his collegiate coaching career at Heartland Community College in 2016. HCC went 43-15 and won a conference championship behind a powerful offense that ranked in the top-10 nationally in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs, doubles, triples, home runs, RBIs and stolen bases. The team featured two MLB Draft picks, two All-Americans and four all-conference players coached by Magnifico.
A native of Lexington, Missouri, Magnifico played collegiately at John Wood Community College as a shortstop and team captain before transferring to Missouri State, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology in 2011.
Joey Jones
Director of Operations
Joey Jones was named the Director of Operations for Jaguar baseball in August 2019.
Jones lettered three years for the Jaguars from 2015-17, and helped lead the program to consecutive NCAA Regional appearances (2016-17) as well as two Sun Belt Conference championships (2015-16) and one Sun Belt Conference Tournament title (2017).
Prior to his playing career at South Alabama, the Trussville, Ala., native lettered two years at Lawson State (Ala.) Community College in Birmingham, Ala. Jones also served as a graduate assistant for two seasons at USA (2018-19) before being named Director of Operations.
He earned a bachelor's degree in sports management from South Alabama in 2016, and received a master's degree in sports management from USA in 2018.
Corley Reynolds
Assistant Coach
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