Entering his fifth season at Northwestern State, G.T. McCullough has added recruiting coordinator responsibilities to his list of tasks on the Demons staff.
McCullough is in his third season as a full-time assistant coach and will work with the Northwestern State infielders in 2017 after spending the past two seasons coaching the Demons outfielders.
If McCullough’s success carries over to the infield, the Demons will have a productive unit.Â
In 2016, McCullough tutored center fielder Nick Heath to a single-season school record 35 steals en route to Heath becoming a 16th-round draft pick of the Kansas City Royals.Â
In his first season as a full-time assistant coach, McCullough worked closely with the Northwestern State outfielders, which included Southland Conference Hitter of the Year and baseball Student-Athlete of the Year Cort Brinson, who won the team’s triple crown and added first-team All-Louisiana honors to his resume.
With McCullough’s tutelage, Heath swiped 23 bases in 27 tries. Working with McCullough, Heath was successful on 84.1 percent of his stolen base tries in his final two college seasons.
McCullough is also in charge of planning of team events, budgetary management, practice planning and other baseball-related projects.
In his prior role as a volunteer assistant, McCullough also coached the Demons outfielders, which included Bret Underwood, a 20th-round draft pick of the San Francisco Giants who returned to NSU for his senior season.
McCullough was a two-year student manager at Mississippi State, working with Lane Burroughs, who later became the NSU coach from 2012-2016, and Bulldogs head coach John Cohen, the Demons’ head coach in 1998-2001. McCullough also spent another year as a student worker with the Mississippi State program.
During his time with the program, the Bulldogs reached the 2011 NCAA Super Regionals and won the 2012 SEC Tournament championship, making another regional appearance.
McCullough, a magna cum laude graduate of Mississippi State in kinesiology with a concentration in teaching and coaching, has two summers of successful coaching experience in American Legion baseball, in Tupelo, Miss., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he was head coach and led the Post 34 team to the Alabama Central Division championship.
Originally from Tupelo, Miss., McCullough is a 2007 graduate of Tupelo High School. He is married to Sally Beth McCullough of Brookhaven, Miss. The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Sally Grace, in August 2016 and are expecting their second child later this year.
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