Jared Moon
Jared Wayne Moon is an American baseball coach and former catcher, who is the head baseball coach of the Houston Baptist Huskies. He played college baseball at Houston Baptist for coaches Rickey Witt & Rusty Pendergrass from 1990 to 1994.Early life
Moon attended Aldine High School in Houston, Texas. Moon played for the school's varsity baseball team. Moon then enrolled at Houston Baptist University, where he played for the Houston Baptist Huskies baseball team as an catcher.Coaching career
Upon graduation, Moon was named an assistant at Houston Baptist. After 11 seasons as an assistant, he was promoted to head coach when Brian Huddleston retired. In their final season of being in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the Huskies advanced to the NAIA World Series, where they finished third. He led the Huskies to their first NCAA Division I baseball tournament championship in 2013, winning the Great West Conference. Two years after moving to the Southland Conference, he guided the Huskies to their first ever NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament appearance. The following spring he was rewarded with a contract extension.
