Drew Fiala returns for a fourth season as an assistant coach with the Bobcats.
Jones has posted back-to-back 50-win seasons, played in three consecutive NJCAA World Series and won 2024 and 2025 NJCAA Region 23 Championships.
Fifteen players have moved on to four-year programs in Fiala's tenure, including four to NCAA Division I teams.
Fiala spent the 2022-2023 seasons as the head coach at Raleigh High School where the Lions were 38-19-1 and won Region 6-3A both years.
His first full-time coaching job was as an assistant coach at his high school alma mater, West Jones, in 2021.
Fiala was a manager for the Bobcat softball team for the 2016-17 seasons and was a graduate assistant for Jones in 2020 where he helped then-assistant coach Tori Dew with hitters.
He moved on to Southern Miss where he was a manager during the 2018-19 seasons and got his degree in 2020 in sports coaching education.
While serving as a manager at both schools, Fiala caught bullpens, hit fungo for the coaches, worked with hitters and helped with field maintenance.
