Darren Harmon enters his second season as an assistant coach with the UNG softball team after joining the program in 2024 upon the hire of Brooke O’Hair as the third head coach in UNG softball history.
Harmon joined O'Hair and the Nighthawks in 2024 after having spent the previous five seasons as an assistant with O'Hair at Mississippi College.
In his first season in the dugout, Harmon helped lead the team to one of the best offensive seasons in program history. The Nighthawks went 48-16 and won the Peach Belt Conference Regular-season Championship and NCAA Southeast Regional Championship while breaking records along the way. The team's 83 home runs and .579 slugging percentage were far and away the best power marks for a single season in program history. In the program's 29-year varsity history, the 2025 Nighthawks also sat second for single-season totals in RBIs (448), runs scored (489) and triples (28) while ranking third in on-base percentage (.421), at bats (1,789), hits (612) and doubles (118). UNG also showed record-setting discipline at the plate this year, recording the fourth-most walks (205) in a season and the second-fewest strikeouts (173) in the NCAA era in program history.
UNG’s accolades were highlighted by four PBC All-Conference selections including the PBC Freshman of the Year in Carleigh Knowles, a trio of All-Region honorees and three All-Americans including Knowles who was a National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) First Team selection and the NFCA Freshman of the Year and Catcher of the year.
While Harmon was MC, the Choctaws won over 130 games. Over the course of the 2022 and 2023 seasons, O'Hair and Harmon led MC to a 91-21 record which included appearances in the 2023 NCAA South Regional Tournament and the 2024 South Super Regional.
Prior to joining O'Hair's staff at MC, Harmon spent nine years as a youth softball and baseball coach for various organizations throughout Mississippi. He spent three seasons as the head softball coach at Canton Academy High School in Canton, Miss.
Updated: June 2025
