Daylan Nanny joined the Bellarmine University baseball team as the recruiting coordinator/assistant coach in the summer of 2024.
In Nanny's first season at Bellarmine, the Knights in 2025 set Division I-era program records for total wins (17, four more than previous high) and ASUN wins (11) while recording their first-ever D1-era victory over both a nationally ranked opponent and a College World Series qualifier after defeating No. 21 Louisville 10-9 on May 13. The first squad with Nanny aboard produced a D1-era record 355 runs while redshirt freshman Landon Akers became the program's youngest All-ASUN selection (second team, shortstop). The Knights additionally set a program record with 38 ASUN Honor Roll recipients.
Nanny came to Bellarmine after serving as the recruiting coordinator and hitting coach for NAIA Louisiana State University Shreveport in a record-breaking 2024 campaign. The native of Plainfield, Indiana, helped power the Pilots to a 44-11 record, including a 28-2 mark in Red River Athletic Conference play where they captured the regular-season title by a historic 10-game margin.
LSU Shreveport was ranked No. 4 in the final NAIA coaches' poll and earned a one-seed in the NAIA Baseball National Championship. In addition to two All-America honors, the Pilots had 13 All-RRAC selections (eight position players and five pitchers) while sweeping the Player and Pitcher of the Year awards. The team finished eighth in the nation with a .339 team batting average and increased its home run total from 40 to 60 in one season.
In 2023, Nanny was an assistant coach and camp coordinator who assisted in recruiting efforts and offensive and outfield development at Western Kentucky University. He helped the Hilltoppers engineer a remarkable turnaround, going from 18-36 overall and 7-23 in Conference USA in 2022 to 33-26 overall and 16-14 in league play in 2023, when WKU advanced to the semifinals of the C-USA Championship and improved in 18 offensive categories.
Fresh off his playing career, Nanny first joined a college coaching staff in 2022 as the recruiting coordinator at juco Wabash Valley College. That season, the Warriors went 59-9 while earning a berth in the NJCAA World Series. As a team, they hit .396 with 82 home runs.
A first baseman and outfielder, Nanny played his freshman season in 2018 at juco Arizona Western College and hit .347 in 57 games while helping drive the team to a 49-16 record and Region 1 championship. He then transferred to Western Carolina University for his final three seasons, starting all 112 games in which he appeared while hitting .305 with 11 homers, 37 doubles and 82 RBI. He batted .332 in 2019 and .306 in 2021, building a 43-game reached base streak in the latter. Nanny played summer ball in the esteemed Cape Cod Baseball League and hit .333 for the YD Red Sox.
Nanny earned a bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in sports management at Western Carolina.
