Thomas Tillery enters his first season as the pitching coach for the Alexandria Beetles after his first season as an assistant with Meridian Community College. Tillery played his junior college baseball at LSU-Eunice  from 2005-2006 and won a Division II National Championship in 2006. Tillery continued his college career at Southern Arkansas University from 2007-2009.

Tillery had spent the previous two seasons as a graduate assistant at Southern Arkansas.  Under his tutiledge, five pitchers have moved on from the junior college level to the ranks of Division I.