Eric Briggs will enter his fourth year at Drury as an assistant coach for the Panthers in 2025. Before coming to Drury, Briggs has worked as a high school head coach for 25 years and a scout for the Kansas City Royals since 2009.
In his three seasons with the Panthers, Drury has gone 95-66 and 61-35 in conference play. In 2024, the Panthers went 23-13 in league play and produced four All-GLVC performers. Drury had three players named to the All-GLVC team and Drury advanced to the conference championship in the league tournament in 2023.Â
In 2022, Briggs was part of a staff honored by the GLVC as Scott Nasby was named the league's Coach of the Year after the Panthers won the Green Division, finished 21-7 in the conference, and went 38-17 overall. Drury produced four all-conference players, three named All-Midwest Region, and 1B/C Nikko Calabro was selected as an All-American.Â
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He served as a manager and coach for the Kansas City Royals Scout Team in the Perfect Game Baseball Association, a developmental program for amateur players partnered with several organizations, including Major League Baseball.
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From 2012 to 2016, he was a coach for the Midwest Nationals baseball squad based in Springfield. Briggs was the head coach at Bolivar High School from 2006 to 2012 and led the Liberators to a Central Ozark Conference championship which was their first conference title since 1974. He guided the baseball program at Lakeland High School in Deepwater, Missouri, for 11 years, and his team reached the district championship game nine times, won four conference championships, and reached the state quarterfinals.
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In addition to coaching, Briggs authored a book, 9 Types of Ground Balls, published in 2013 and available on Amazon.
