Jason Beverlin, a long-time college coach who has head coaching experience and ties to Georgia Southern, was named the new pitching coach of the Eagle baseball program for the 2026 season.
Previously, Beverlin coached in the same role at Sun Belt rival Coastal Carolina from 2022 to 2024. In his first season with the Chanticleers, his staff led the Sun Belt in both strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.54) and fewest walks allowed per nine innings (3.58) and ranked fourth in the conference in both WHIP (1.40) and strikeouts per nine innings (9.1) on the season.
Before his stint in Conway, Beverlin served as a recruiting coordinator for the Toronto Blue Jays from 2017-2020. He also served as the head coach for Bethune-Cookman from 2011 to 2017, where he won 179 games, four MEAC Tournament titles, and is the only coach in program history to compete for an NCAA Regional title in his final season with the program.
Beverlin is no stranger to Statesboro, however, as before serving as the pitching coach for Tennessee from 2010-2011, he served in the same role under Hennon in 2008 and 2009. The improvements to the pitching staff were reflected on the field, as the Eagles would win the Southern Conference title in 2009.
Collegiately, Beverlin was a teammate of Hennon at Western Carolina, where he won Southern Conference Pitcher of the Year in 1994, and even garnered second-team All-American honors. For this, he was inducted into the Western Carolina Hall of Fame.
Beverlin would go on to play professionally for five different organizations across eight seasons in the minor leagues before being called up in 2002, where he made appearances for both the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers. Following his career in the MLB, Beverlin would go on to play for three years in Japan, where he was selected as an All-Star in 2004.
He and his wife, Heather, are the parents of two sons, Cole and Lucas. Cole was a pitcher at Western Carolina, who was selected in the 2018 MLB Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays (39th round, 1,166th overall pick) out of high school. Lucas recently completed his collegiate career as a pitcher at USC Sumter.
