The vacant baseball coach position at DeKalb County High School has been filled.
Tracy Slone, a resident of Rutherford County, will fill the spot left by the recent resignation of Scott Odom.
For the last two years, Slone has served as an assistant baseball coach at Siegel High School in Murfreesboro. He has previously held the position of head coach at Lebanon High School, Lincoln County High School, and Lakeland High School in LaGrange, Ind.
Slone’s accomplishments include more than 350 career wins as a coach. As many as 70 of his former players have gone on to play college baseball, and at least three have signed professional contracts.
An Indiana native, Slone is a graduate of Cumberland University, where he was a pitcher on the Bulldogs’ 1988 World Series team. He went on to play played two seasons in the New York Yankees and Oakland A’s minor-league organizations before experiencing elbow problems and embarking on a coaching career.
The new coach is married to wife Tracy and the couple have two children, son Chase, a high-school senior, and daughter Jordan, soon to be in sixth grade. The family currently resides at Walter Hill.
Slone holds a B.S. degree in Education from Cumberland University, and has worked as a Physical Education teacher for grades five-12 at MAP Academy in Lebanon since 2005.
He will serve as a wellness teacher at the high school as well as performing his duties as coach of the baseball Tigers.