dp Staff

-Barry Mabry- Barry Mabry is a Boiling Springs, SC native. He played basketball and baseball at Boiling Springs High School where he was an All-Region pitcher during his junior and senior years. Mabry signed with the Atlanta Braves out of high school and played six years of professional baseball. After multiple injuries and career-ending shoulder surgery in 2006, Mabry went back to school and received a degree in Sports Management from Limestone College. During this time he was a pitching coach in the Coastal Plains League with the Spartanburg Stingers and Forest City Owls. After graduating college he moved to Rome, GA and worked as Director of Operations with the Rome Braves in 2009. Mabry moved back to South Carolina in 2009 where he started back coaching and scouting. He has been a private pitching instructor for over twenty years and is currently the Upstate Scout/Fall Commissioner for Diamond Prospects. Mabry currently lives in Spartanburg, SC with his wife Whitney, step-son Gavin (13) and son Nash (5).

-Austin Smithwick- Austin Smithwick was a standout catcher at Western Carolina (1995-99). After leaving Cullowhee, he immediately began his coaching career at Georgia Southern University under his former head coach Rodney Hennon. He currently serves as an assistant coach for Anthony Carroll at Conway High School where he came on staff in 2009. Smithwick moved to South Carolina in 2006 after coaching at Wake Forest-Rolesville (NC) High School for three years. After moving to Conway in 2009, Smithwick began assisting DP with both showcases and serving as a Recruiting 101 counselor.  Smithwick’s coaching career began as a graduate assistant at Division I Georgia Southern University in 2001, then served as the recruiting coordinator for junior college powerhouse Young Harris College for two years. After his three year stint at Wake Forest-Rolesville HS (NC), he coached at Lander University, serving the Division II Bearcats program as recruiting coordinator and was in charge of the offense. In all, Smithwick has coached numerous drafted players, eight major leaguers, and while at Young Harris he worked with current Atlanta Brave Nick Markakis. A native of Coleridge, NC, Smithwick earned his bachelor’s degree from Western Carolina in 1999 and his master’s in sports management from Georgia Southern in 2002. He graduated from Eastern Randolph High School in Ramseur, NC in 1995. Smithwick is married to the former Jessica Broome of Raleigh, NC. They have two children, Tucker (13) and Campbell (11).