Piedmont University Athletics

Jared Broughton enters his fourth season as Associate Head Baseball Coach in the fall of 2019 helping guide the Lions to a USA South Regular Season title in 2019 and developing one of the most decorated players in Piedmont history in Brady Ballstadt. Broughton joined the Piedmont staff after a three-season stint as an assistant coach at Division III Earlham College in Indiana following a playing career at the Division I level.

Broughton helped guide the Lions to impressive marks including being ranked as high as #10 nationally and earning the #1 seed in the USA South tournament. The Lions finished with a 29-10 record in 2019 posting a 19-3 marking in league play. Six Lions earned USA South All-Conference honors while four student-athletes earned ABCA/Rawlings All-Region honors. 

Brady Ballstadt continued to dominate D-III baseball earning USA South Player of the Year for the second year in a row, CoSIDA Academic All-District and Academic All-American honors, D3baseball.com All-American, and ABCA/Rawlings All-Region honors. In 2019, Ballstadt broke the school career records for home runs, doubles, hits, runs and RBI.

In his first two seasons, Broughton helped Piedmont to two straight deep USA South Tournament runs including in 2017 as the #8 seed. The Lions made a stellar run through the tourney winning four-straight elimination games to make it to the tournament championship. Broughton made his mark immediately leading Piedmont to 126 stolen bases in 2017, second in the country in Division III, and moved up to 144 stolen bases in 2018.
 
In three seasons as an assistant coach at Earlham College in Indiana, Broughton helped the Division III program improve its win total each year moving from a 21-18 record in 2014 to a school-best 29-14 record in 2016.  Broughton was part of several firsts for Earlham helping the program to its first-ever appearance in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship Tournament (2015) following that up with its first HCAC postseason wins (2016) making it all the way to the championship game this season.

In 2016, Earlham dominated the HCAC statistically leading the league in doubles, home runs, extra-base hits, RBIs, walks, stolen bases, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and runs scored. Earlham also ranked amongst some of the best teams in the country statistically finishing 6th in stolen bases amongst all Division III institutions while also ranking 18th in total home runs, 7th in stolen bases per game, and 23rd in home runs per game.

Broughton enjoyed his own star playing career as a collegiate player spending his final two seasons at NCAA Division I member University of Dayton in Ohio helping the Flyers to 31 wins in 2012 including a 17-7 mark in the Atlantic 10.  Over his two years at Dayton, Broughton drove in 45 runs while hitting .279 in 104 games including 96 starts as an infielder with a .959 fielding percentage to his credit.
 
Just as he would later help Earlham to several program firsts as a coach, Broughton would enjoy the same tradition at Dayton leading the Flyers to their first-ever Atlantic 10 Tournament Championship in 2012 coupled with the program's debut in the NCAA National Tournament as well. Dayton played in the College Station Regional during that season leading the nation in stolen bases with 164 on the year.
 
Before enrolling at Dayton, Broughton played at Vincennes University, a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association located in Indiana.  Broughton began his reputation for helping programs to firsts at Vincennes as he guided the program to its first-ever appearance in the NJCAA World Series in 2010 in Enid, Oklahoma with a 30-21 record in 2010.
 
The Trailblazers were Region XII Champions in that 2010 season as Broughton was named Region XII Most Valuable Player after hitting a walk-off homerun over top-seeded Kellogg Community College in the NJCAA Region XII Tournament championship.  Broughton would go on later that season to be named a NJCAA All-American before becoming one of 18 players under the tutelage of Vincennes Head Coach Chris Barney to sign with a Division I institution. 
 
Broughton displayed power at the plate during his junior college days finishing tied for 10th in NJCAA Division II in home runs with 17 on the season while also leading the team with a .423 batting average, 57 RBIs, and 53 runs scored.  Before Broughton finished tied for second in the 2010 NJCAA Division II World Series Home Run Derby, Broughton belted eight homers as a freshman in 2009 hitting .379 and also led the team with 42 RBIs.
 
In addition to his collegiate playing and coaching experience,  Broughton also boasts travel and summer league coaching experience helping the 18U Lids Indiana Bulls to a 2012 Premier National Championship as an assistant coach with the team.  Since 2013, Broughton also worked as an instructor with the Under Armour Top 96 Camp in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and Ohio.
 
In the summer of 2014, Broughton worked as an assistant baseball coach for the Carolina Forest Crawdads, a member of the Beach Collegiate Baseball League.  While coaching in Myrtle Beach that summer, Broughton also served as the team's first base coach helping with the recruitment to fill the 25-man roster.
 
Having earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Dayton in May of 2013, Broughton completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics as a scholar athlete at UD.  Additionally, Broughton was named a Presidential Scholar Athlete Award Nominee in his final semester at the Ohio-based institution.
 
In addition to his duties as the Associate Head Baseball Coach for the varsity program at Piedmont, Broughton will also serve as the Head JV Baseball Coach for the Lions while assisting Head Coach Justin Scali in the overall operation of the program.