Coach Brian Oswalt joined the Brighton High School Cardinals coaching staff in 2002 as an assistant coach in charge of the pitchers and infielders.

Since Oswalt became head coach in 2003, the Cards have had 5 straight winning seasons with two 13AAA District Titles, one in-season 13AAA District Title, one 13AAA Runner-Up, 3 Regional Appearances, and one Sub-State Finalist. At the close of the 2005-06 season, the Cards were ranked 14th of 114 in West Tennessee with an overall record of 23-12. The Cards finished the 2006 season being noted in the Dandy Dozen as high as 6th. During this time, the Cardinal Baseball Program has had 16 players go on to play at college or have been signed to play professional baseball.

Prior to joining the BHS staff, Oswalt served as an assistant baseball coach at Louisville High School in Louisville, MS and as an assistant baseball coach at Weir High School in Weir, MS.
Coach Oswalt has served as a baseball scout for the Baltimore Orioles, conducting tryout camps since 2005 under Scouting Supervisor Mike Tullier.

Under the direction of Oswalt, the BHS Baseball Program has won 110 games since 2003 season.
Oswalt is a member of the Tennessee Baseball Coaching Association and TACA and Smyrna Baptist Church.
A native of Weir, MS, Oswalt now lives in Atoka, TN. He and his wife, Cristi Oswalt, have a daughter and son.

This is Coach Zane Adams first season as assistant coach with the cardinals. He will serve as the pitching and conditioning coach. Prior to joining Brighton he was a graduate assistant pitching coach at The University of West Alabama. He also played at UWA for two seasons before joining the coach Staff. He battled through injuries during his tenure at UWA. Before he was at UWA he spent time at Union University and Dyersburg State Community College. While at Union, Zane posted an 8-3 record over 95 inning and 75 strikeouts as a freshman. He was also name second team all-region. He then transferred to Dyersburg State Community College where he posted an 8-2 recoded over 92 innings with 82 strikeouts. He was named First-team all conference while at DSCC.

Coach Adams attended Millington High School where he lettered in Baseball and Football where he was captain on both teams for two years and name all region in baseball and football for his junior and senior seasons.

Zane is married to former Rebecca Starnes and resides in Munford, TN.

Kevin Heath is in his 1st season as an assistant coach with the Cardinals. He will be coaching JV and also coaching the outfielders and catchers. He has previously coached for the Covington Chargers in 2004 and 2007. He attended high school at Bolton High where he lettered in baseball and broke the RBI record his senior year. He earned a scholarship to play baseball at Dyersburg State.
Coach Heath has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Memphis and a master degree in Operations Management from the University of Arkansas.
He is married to Amanda Heath and together they have a daughter named Molly Anne.