After a brief, but illustrious career donning the purple and gold, former Golden Eagle great Daniel Miles has joined the coaching ranks of the Tennessee Tech baseball team, serving as a volunteer assistant.

After transferring from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Miles spent the next two seasons locking down the hot corner for the Golden Eagles while churning out arguably the best two-year run by a Tech third baseman ever. Miles left Cookeville as the program's most decorated All-American, having claimed six separate honors over his two-year career.

The Pascagoula, Miss. native joined four of his teammates from the 2014 season to present the program's largest draft class ever with five individuals taken in the MLB First Year Player Draft. Miles was selected in the eighth round with the 247th overall selection by the Tampa Bay Rays, making him the second-highest positional player taken in Tech history.

Putting together one of the greatest single seasons in school history, he batted .380 on the year, leading the Tech squad with 90 hits to rank third all-time in program history. He also scored 67 runs and belted 11 home runs, giving him 23 on the year to crack the top 10 in Tech career history.

His senior season alone, he took home honors such as Rawlings/ABCA South All-Region First Team, All-OVC First Team, College Sports Madness Ohio Valley All-Conference First Team, OVC All-Tournament Team, and was named to the USA Baseball Midseason Golden Spikes Award Watch List and a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy.

This was all on top of five different All-American honors from College Sports Madness, Collegiate Baseball newspaper, the NCBWA, Perfect Game and the ABCA. Two of the awards were First-Team recognition, making him one of just four Tech players ever to garner the honor.

He broke Tech’s single-game record with eight RBI in a huge victory over NYIT in February, leading to OVC Player of the Week and NCAA National Player of the Week honors. He also took home College Sports Madness OVC Player of the Week accolades in March. The slugger manned the hot corner in 58 games, leading the Golden Eagles to a record-tying 40 wins with a team-high .380 batting average and ranking second nationally with 67 runs scored.

In his two seasons at Tech, the Golden Eagles tallied an unbelievable 80-36 record, setting the team mark for fielding percentage in 2013 at .979 and matching the percentage again in 2014. They also set the standard for single-season wins at 40 in 2013 and again in 2014.

For his career, Miles batted .360 over 111 games played, including 110 starts, while scoring 110 runs, driving in 107 and racking up 157 hits, 28 doubles, four triples, 23 home runs and 60 walks to just 41 strikeouts. He slugged .601 while recording an on base percentage of .450.

Miles currently resides in Cookeville.