Berry College

David Beasley has been at the helm of the Berry baseball program since the 1998 season and enters the 2025 season with a 788-523-2 overall record, the winningest coach in school history.  

In August of 2012, he was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director in addition to his head coaching duties. In his administrative role, Beasley is responsible for overseeing athletic department fundraising, the booster club and the hall of fame.  
 

A well respected member of the Berry and Rome community, Beasley was inducted into the Rome-Floyd Sports Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement in 2016. 
 
During Berry's NCAA Division III era (including through the transitionary period), Beasley has led the Vikings to a 333-232 record including a 131-77 record in the Southern Athletic Association. Beasley surpassed 750 career wins in the 2024 season and he earned his 600th career victory during the historic 2018 season after earning his 500th milestone win in 2014. In 2010, the first year as an NCAA Division III provisional member, Beasley's Vikings finished with a 23-17 overall mark. That season came on the heels of one of the best seasons in school history, which culminated with an appearance in the NAIA World Series. In 2018, he led the Vikings to the program's first SAA Regular Season Championship, and was also named SAA Coach of the Year for the first time in his career.  

In the 2025 campaign, Beasley developed seven All-SAA athletes and an ABCA/Rawlings All-American in Riley Uhls. Coach Beasley also led Uhls to All-Region honors from ABCA/Rawlings and D3baseball.com. After playing an extremely tough non-conference schedule, the Vikings finished the regular season as the five seed and went on the road in the first round of the SAA Tournament and won two straight games over Hendrix to advance into the second round before being eliminated. Beasley's high-powered offense broke single-game records in runs scored, doubles, and stolen bases.
 
For the 2024 season, the Vikings hosted the first round of the SAA Championship as the second seed and held the SAA Pitcher of the Year, Charles Stephenson. Beasley coached the ABCA NCAA Division III Region 6 All-Defensive Team athlete, Riley Uhls and boosted the team to another ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award. The Vikings held eleven All-SAA athletes and two ABCA/Rawlings All-Region players. 

In 2023, the Vikings entered the SAA Championships as the No. 5-seed but battled all the way to be one of the last two teams standing. Nick Brunswick was First-Team All-SAA while earning All-Region recognition in the outfield and setting the D-III school record for hits in a season with 69. Playing one of the toughest schedules in the program's D-III history, Berry still fought to finish just one game under .500 for the season while posting a winning record in SAA regular season play. 
 
The 2022 campaign saw Beasley win his 700th career game with the Vikings, earning the mark with an 11-2 BC win over in-state rival Emory. Berry finished in second place in the SAA regular season standings, posting a 13-8 SAA mark and a 25-17 record overall. Spence Johns was named SAA Player of the Year after setting numerous career records for the Vikings. 
 
In 2021, Beasley was named the SAA Coach of the Year after leading the Vikings to the SAA regular season championship with a 32-9 record and 19-5 SAA slate. 
 
In Berry's NAIA years, Beasley led the 2009 Vikings to a regular season championship of the Southern States Athletic Conference with a record of 46-16 with a 22-5 conference mark. The team made the school's first-ever appearance at the NAIA World Series, placing fifth in the national tournament and earning a No. 4 ranking in the final NAIA National Poll, the highest ranking in school history. It was the most successful season that the coach has known, as the group tied the school record for wins in a season with 46 victories. He has also won a TranSouth Tournament title, an SSAC Tournament Title and the first regular-season SSAC title in school history. He was also named conference and regional coach of the year. 
 
 In addition to the work on the field, Beasley also emphasizes classroom excellence. His teams have produced 13 All-Americans and had eight Academic All-Americans. Beasley has also had 15 players move on to play professional baseball. One of the most notable is pitcher Collin McHugh now of the Houston Astros. His son Dylan Beasley is the most recent Viking to turn pro, signing with the Washington Nationals after becoming the first player in the team's NCAA Division III era to be drafted in the Major League Baseball (MLB) First Year Player Draft. Dylan was selected in the 32nd round and was the only junior in all of Division III taken in the draft.  
 
Under Beasley's leadership, Berry has continued to improve its facilities to become one of the best in the Southern Athletic Association. The latest edition is a 6,000 square-foot indoor hitting and pitching facility. 
 
A native of Troy, Ala., Beasley played two years of baseball at George C. Wallace Junior College in Selma, Ala., earning All-America honors as a standout third baseman. He then transferred to Huntingdon College where he played under former Berry coach Steve Shartzer. Beasley graduated from Huntingdon with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1987 and earned his master's degree in physical education from Alabama State University in Montgomery. He served as an assistant under Shartzer before taking over as Berry's head coach in the spring of 1998. 
 
Beasley is married to the former Cindy King of Panama City, Fla. They have three children, Heath, Alexis and Dylan, and the family resides in Rome, Ga.