Danny Fish has been tapped to step into the shoes of longtime DCHS Tigerette softball coach Danny Bond.
Fish is a 1996 graduate of DeKalb County High School, and has served as the team’s assistant coach for four seasons. He played baseball and basketball at DCHS, then attended Motlow State Community College on a baseball scholarship. The new coach was then awarded a scholarship to play baseball from 1998-2000 at Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens. He was named “All Conference” and “All Region” both years.
He took an assistant coaching position at TWC in 2001. The team won the Appalachian Athletic Conference Championship that year.
Fish took the head softball coach and assistant women’s basketball coach positions at Maryville College, where the Lady Scots won a Great South Athletic Conference Regular Season Championship and made it into the NCAA Division III Top 25. The team reached the Great South Athletic Conference Championships eight times during his tenure, competed in four NCAA Division III National Tournament events, and made it to the 2007 NCAA Division III National Tournament.
Fish left Maryville in 2009 with an 80-30 record in GSAC play, and a record of 159-115 overall. He was GSAC Coach of the Year in 2004, 2007, and 2009, and the team earned five regular season titles.
The move from Maryville led him to the head softball coach’s position at Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky, where he led the team to victory in the 2010 Appalachian Athletic Conference Tournament and the 2010 NAIA World Series. Fish coached two Conference Players of the Year, nine All-Conference Players, eight All-Academic Team members and was awarded the 2012 Champions of Character for the most service work in the conference at Union, and was named Director of Game Management.
He also earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education from Tennessee Wesleyan College in 2000, and a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership from Union College in 2012.
Fish and his family, wife Nicole, eight-year-old Devin, and two-year-old Karah, returned home to DeKalb County in 2012, and was hired as a substitute teacher, and took the position of assistant high school softball coach. He was employed as a physical education teacher at Northside Elementary School in 2013, and continued as the Tigerettes’ assistant coach.
The coach will be moving from the Northside Elementary School physical education teacher position to physical education at DCHS.