Joe Craighead is in his second year as a graduate manager with the Northwestern State baseball program.
This season, he will assist Dan Hlad in working with the Demon pitchers after spending the 2023 summer coaching with the Acadiana Cane Cutters of the Texas Collegiate League.
Craighead, whose father Chris played football at Northwestern State, came to NSU after spending the past three years as the head student manager and head of operations at Louisiana Tech where he worked under former Demon skipper Lane Burroughs.
While at Louisiana Tech, Craighead assisted in day-to-day operations of the Bulldog program, including setting up for practice, facilitating practice drills, creating and organizing scouting reports and assisting with team travel.
An August 2022 Louisiana Tech graduate in kinesiology, health and physical education, Craighead has worked with the CATS and Ruston Reds youth baseball organizations and was an assistant coach at Choudrant Junior High School in his hometown.
Craighead is pursuing a master’s degree in adult learning and development at Northwestern State.Â
