Baseball

Blake Beck is in his second season as an assistant coach for the Tennessee Tech baseball team. Beck joined the Golden Eagles staff after spending the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season as the pitching coach at Jones College in Ellisville, Miss.

Prior to his time at JC, he served at Auburn as the director of player development and a data analyst from 2017-19, working side-by-side with former Tech head coach Steve Smith during the 2018 and 2019 campaigns.

During his time at Auburn, Beck saw the Tigers improve each season and got an early glimpse of the Golden Eagles in the 2017 NCAA Regionals in Tallahassee, Fla. Auburn edged the purple and gold, 5-3, in its match-up, relying on the future No. 1 overall pick, Mize, to lead the way before losing to the eventual regional winner and host Florida State.

The next season, in 2018, Auburn advanced to the Super Regionals behind 43 wins, eventually falling to Florida in a third and decisive contest in Gainesville. The team broke through in 2019, winning the Atlanta Regional hosted by No. 3 Georgia Tech and disposing of No. 14 North Carolina in the Super Regional for its first College World Series appearance since 1997.

Before joining the Tigers, Beck took the volunteer assistant coaching position at his alma mater, Troy, for the 2016 season.

From 2014-15, Beck served two years as the video coordinator at Mississippi State, where he completed all of the player analysis and assisted pitching coach Butch Thompson, who went on to become the head coach at Auburn, with the day-to-day operations of the Bulldog program. Additionally, Beck aided with on-campus recruiting as well as baseball camp operations and instruction.

Beck also spent two seasons as a video coordinator at Troy, working for the Trojans as an undergrad. In addition to his video responsibilities, he supervised team managers and led field maintenance operations. He also worked with the 2013 Troy team that went 42-20, won a Sun Belt championship and earned a spot in the NCAA Regionals.

He graduated in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in sport and fitness management. In 2016, he earned his master's from Mississippi State in kinesiology.

A native of Hamilton, Ala., Beck was a starting pitcher for two years at Shelton State Community College, where he had a career 2.67 ERA for the Buccaneers before becoming the video coordinator at Troy in 2012.

Beck is married to the former Brooke Davis and the couple have a daughter, Addie Blake.