Tarpons baseball coach takes job in Arkansas

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After a couple years on the bayou at South Lafourche High School, Jacob Midyett is going home.

The Tarpons head baseball coach and assistant football coach/offensive coordinator announced this week that he has accepted a job as the head football coach at Parkers Chapel High School in Arkansas.


The school is Midyett’s alma mater. He was the team’s starting quarterback for several seasons before playing briefly in college and then getting into coaching.

Midyett, 25, said he will finish the season with the Tarpons baseball team and will return home once the 2016-17 school year finishes.

“It’s a dream come true,” Midyett told the El Dorado News – the Arkansas-based newspaper that covers Parkers Chapel. “It was always a goal of mine to come back and be a head coach at one point.”


Midyett is young, but seasoned at the same time.

With South Lafourche, he’s coached just about everywhere on the offensive side of the ball, starting with receivers, but also working with the offensive line and quarterbacks in his tenure.

This past season, Midyett was the Tarpons’ offensive coordinator, helping assist offensive-minded head coach Brandon Nowlin in game planning and play calling.


He’s been the Tarpons head baseball coach for the past two seasons.

This year, the team is expected to make the playoffs.

Jacob Midyett


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