Dustin Young

Dustin Young

Dustin Young will enter his fifth season as the assistant softball coach in Spring 2024.

Combined with head coach Chelsea Bramlett, Young makes up one of the MACCC's most formidable softball coaching staffs. Since being hired to Bramlett's staff prior to the 2020 season, the duo has combined for an overall record of 99-50 and 56-30 in conference play. 

Young and Bramlett have sent the Rangers to the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament in each of the last three seasons. In 2022, Northwest won its first-ever NJCAA Region 23 Championship and advanced to the NJCAA Division II Softball Championship tournament for the first time in program history.

With Young's support, Bramlett was named NJCAA Gulf A District Coach of the Year for 2022. The duo also helped Northwest to back-to-back 30-win seasons in 2022-23, the first time in history the program has achieved such a milestone.

Since the 2020 season, Young and Bramlett have produced 12 four-year players, including Division I signees Laila Armstrong (Tennessee State) and McKaylee "K.K." Polk (Memphis). 

Young was hired to head coach Chelsea Bramlett's coaching staff in fall 2020 and immediately made his impact felt on the Rangers' program. Despite a shortened 2020 season due to the effects of COVID-19, Young and Bramlett helped Northwest to an 8-6 overall record, a conference sweep against Pearl River and a four-game winning streak to close out the abbreviated slate.

Young is no stranger to Northwest or Tate County. A 2003 graduate of Independence High School, Young played baseball at Northwest under coaches Donny Castle and Mark Carson from 2005-06, batting .299 with 13 doubles, four home runs and 24 RBIs as a sophomore in his two seasons in a Ranger uniform. He also tallied a .940 fielding percentage with 78 putouts.

From Northwest, Young went on to continue his career at the next level with the now-defunct Crichton College, coached by another former Ranger in Brandon Rowan. Young played for the Comets from 2007-08.

Since earning his degree from Crichton, Young has remained close to both baseball and softball, coaching youth teams and also assisting with the Senatobia High School softball program, coached by his wife Tammy. From 2010-19, the Youngs' helped Senatobia to a combined record of 150-90-1 with numerous playoff appearances, while helping produce numerous college athletes, including former Rangers Lindsey Brewer, Amanda Bies, Lindsey Shaw, Whitney King, Leeah Henson, Annah Catherine Storey and current Ranger outfielder Mary Britton Faulkner. 

Young and his wife Tammy reside in Senatobia and have two children, Camden and Brinleigh.