Nate Tompkins - Softball Coach - Troy University Athletics

Nate Tompkins

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
ntompkins@troy.edu
Phone:
3446

Nate Tompkins heads into his fourth overall season with the Trojans and third as an assistant coach for 2027.

For the third straight season, Tompkins helped the Trojans bat above a .300 for batting average. In 2026, the Trojans had a .315 batting clip, which was the highest since the program record set in 1995 (.329). That helped Troy continue its streak of 30-plus-win seasons to eight (excluding 2020 for COVID) as it finished 32-22, 10-14 SBC for the No. 9 seed in the Sun Belt Tournament. The Trojans also picked up a pair of series sweeps against Georgia State and Georgia Southern, and wins over Power-4 programs in Georgia Tech and Auburn. He also helped with four All-Sun Belt selections via Megan Loftis and Ella Cunningham on the second team and Makaley Boswell and Mia Tidmore on the honorable mention team – Cunningham (second team) and Boswell (third team) also earned NFCA nods.

In his first season as assistant coach, Tompkins helped the Trojans to a 33-24, 12-12 SBC record with series victories over UMass, Alabama A&M, Coastal Carolina, West Georgia, Louisiana, Texas State, Georgia State and South Alabama to punch a No. 8 seed – the 2-1 series win over Louisiana was the first in program history. Tompkins also helped Troy hit for back-to-back 60-plus homer seasons en route to breaking the sac fly (21) and slugging percentage (.506) program records. He also boosted three All-Sun Belt members in Taylor McKinney on the first team and Alyssa Faircloth and McKinnon Howard on the second team.

Tompkins was promoted to assistant coach in the fall of 2024 after he joined the Troy staff prior to the 2024 as the director of player development and analytics following four years as a private softball instructor at D-Bat Chattanooga for four years. Additionally, he provided development data, technology-driven feedback, and performance metrics to several DI softball programs across the country. During his tenure at D-Bat, more than 80 of the athletes he worked with went on to play collegiate softball.

Prior to moving to the private sector, Tompkins was the assistant coach at Brewton-Parker for four seasons (2016-19) and an assistant coach at Tennessee Temple for three seasons (2013-15), where he coached 10 players who earned NCCAA All-America honors.