Nixa Public Schools

Originally from Branson, Logan Hughes started his college career at North Arkansas where he hit .511 with 15 home runs and drove in 76 runs. He was named a Junior College All-American and, in 2006, was inducted into the North Arkansas CC Athletics Hall of Fame.

Hughes finished his playing career at Missouri-St. Louis where he was an all-conference and all-region third baseman. He was the GLVC Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2003 and 2004, and, in 2004, he was given the Richard Scharf Paragon Award, the league's highest honor given to the overall student-athlete of the year in the conference.

Hughes was an assistant coach at University of Missouri St. Louis from 2005-07, then spent five seasons as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator for Wayne State (Mich.) before the Panthers as an assistant coach.

Hughes recently finished his 8th year as Drury's assistant baseball coach and recruiting coordinator in 2021. During his time at Drury, the baseball team has won three Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC)-West Division titles and advanced to the NCAA-II tournament four times. With Hughes as an assistant, the Panthers have had two position players receive All-American honors, six named All-Region, and 19 have been named All-Great Lakes Valley Conference.  In 2017, Ryan Colombo won the Josh Willingham Award as the NCAA-II's Most Valuable Player and was the GLVC Player of the Year.  Drury also had a position player drafted following the 2017 season as catcher Nic Perkins was a 28th round selection of the Washington Nationals.

In addition to coaching, Hughes will be a teacher at Nixa High School. Hughes will have an active role in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Nixa. He is married to the former Janessa DeMuth, who was an NAIA All-American in basketball at College of the Ozarks. The couple have two sons, Luke (6) and Zack (3).