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Coaching Staff

Jonathan Estes
Assistant Coach

Jonathan Estes enters into his first year as an assistant baseball coach at Arkansas Tech.

Estes comes to Tech after spending the previous four seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas-Rich Mountain in Mena, Arkansas where he helped establish the program. His last three years at UA-Rich Mountain saw Estes ascend to full-time assistant and director of baseball operations after serving as a volunteer assistant in his first year.

In that first season, Estes helped the Bucks explode on the NJCAA radar as they finished runner-up in their region and produced an offense that ranked top-20 nationally in hits, doubles, home runs and RBIs.

After that, Estes continued to build up the UA-Rich Mountain program and in 2022, the Bucks won their region’s regular season championship and were ranked as high as No. 9 in the NJCAA national polls. Again, the offense was stout ranking in the top-20 nationally in runs, doubles, triples and RBIs.

This past season, Estes helped the Bucks finish fourth in the region and the offense rank in the top-30 in hits, doubles and home runs.

In addition to his collegiate coaching experience at UA-Rich Mountain, Estes has coaches summer ball with the Arkansas Sticks 16U team in 2021 and with the Fort Lauderdale Knights in the South Florida Collegiate League in 2020.

As a player, Estes made stops at Central Baptist College and Arkansas Baptist College before ending his career at Williams Baptist University. During his collegiate playing days, Estes was a three-time academic all-conference selection.

Estes also was a standout prep player at Palestine-Wheatley High School where he helped lead his team to four state tournament appearances, two conference championships, three district championships and two regional titles. Individually, Estes was a two-time all-state selection and a three-time all-district selection.

He is married to the former Hannah Crafton and the couple have a dog, Harper.