JACKSON, Miss. – Auburn baseball head coach Butch Thompson has been announced as a member of the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference (MACCC) Hall of Fame Class of 2021.
The induction ceremony will be held at the Hinds Community College Rankin County CampusonTuesday, Apr. 27 at 6 p.m.
Prior to entering the coaching ranks, Thompson starred as a pitcher at Itawamba Community College from 1989-90. Already a member of the ICC Athletic Hall of Fame, he was the closer in every game in which the Indians had a lead or were tied, amounting to approximately 70 games during his two years with the program. Thompson spent his final two college seasons at Birmingham-Southern.
Now in his sixth season as the head coach at Auburn, Thompson has posted a 205-149 record with the Tigers.
Thompson also spent three seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Auburn from 2006-08 and returned to the Plains after seven seasons at Mississippi State as both associate head coach and pitching coach from 2009-15. He has also made stops as an assistant coach at Georgia, his alma mater Birmingham Southern and Huntingdon College and was the head coach at Jefferson State Community College.
Thompson has coached 30 Division I All-Americans and 39 all-conference performers. Of his former pitchers, 16 have made their Major League Baseball debuts, including 10 since 2014. In 28 years of coaching at the collegiate level with 19 in the Southeastern Conference, Thompson has coached eight College World Series participants, including leading the Tigers to the program's first trip to the College World Series in 22 years in 2019. He has coached one national champion and a national runner-up, won nine conference championships and made 17 postseason appearances. He has also served as an assistant under three National Coach of the Year recipients.
Thompson earned a bachelor's degree in history at Birmingham Southern and a master's degree at UAB. He is married to the former Robin Ashe of Birmingham, Alabama, and they are the parents of three daughters, Anna, Olivia and Madelyn Gail.