Coaches

JAMIE SAILORS

Jamie Sailors returns to the Prospect League to lead the Aviators for his fourth season with them after having previously coached four seasons with the Danville Dans (2005, 2006, 2012 and 2013). His 2006 Danville team recorded a 41-19 record, the second-best regular season record in the Prospect League.

Sailors served as Purdue’s pitching coach from 2006 through 2008. He coached at UW-Platteville from 2001 through 2005. A number of Sailors’ former players have gone on to play in the Major Leagues including Mitch Moreland, Danny Worth, Louis Coleman, Tanner Roark, and Josh Lindblom, among others.

Sailors was a 13th-round selection by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1992 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft after playing one season at Parkland College in Champaign, IL. In 1993, Sailors finished second in the league in strikeouts while pitching for the Johnson City Cardinals of the Appalachian League.

Sailors earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education teaching from Purdue in 1999 and went on to obtain his master’s in education at UW-Platteville in 2003. He presently teaches physical education with the Logansport Community School Corporation. Sailors and his wife, Sarah, have three children, Ryne, Brooks, and Madisen.

Brandon Daniels

A familiar face is back in Loeb Stadium. Brandon Daniels a former outfielder and graduate of Lee University in Tennessee, is back on the Aviators by not to steal home runs, rather to coach his former summer league team.

Daniels was a stud for the Aviators during the 2022-2023 season who racked up stats such as six home runs, a .347 AVG, 44 RBIs, 35 runs, and 16 stolen bases.

His stats only improved during his time at Lee where in his final season as a player in 2024 he performed with the following stats: 50 game appearances, .380 AVG, 71 hits, 63 RBIs, 7 HR, and 52 Runs scored.

After his final year at Lee, Daniels took up assistant coaching at the University.

Nate Lambdin

New to the Aviator crew Nate Lambdin is the new Assistant coach for the Fly-Boys this season!

Nate Lambdin has roughly 30 years of experience as a coach and is most notably known for his work as the head baseball coach and academic director for Victor Valley College.

Early in his career he was able to learn under a legendary baseball coach at the University of Arizona, Andy Lopez in 1987. And Afterward would go on to be the head coach of two Southern California Schools.

Lambdin was also head coach of Barstow College’s Baseball team and would lead them to a winning season in 2013 and was given the distinction of having the highest winning percentage in the school’s history. He was also notably the Commissioner of the Carolina Shores baseball league from 2016-2021.

During his time at Victor Valley College, he was able to achieve the most wins in the school’s baseball team’s history, as well as spend 20 years as an academic administrator at the school.