Brandon is a former player for and 1999 graduate of West Texas A&M University. The native of Rotan, Texas, comes to AC after a brief stint as head coach at East Central College in Union, Mo., where the pandemic hampered his efforts to reinstate a baseball program that had been dormant for 20 years. Before that, Rains spent 10 seasons, 2010-2020, as head baseball coach at Brookhaven College in Dallas, where his highly successful teams twice reached the NJCAA World Series (2013 and 2019). Rains was named NJCAA Region 5 Coach of the Year four times at Brookhaven, and his 2014 squad achieved a No. 2 national ranking during the season. The Brookhaven Bears also set school records for wins with 35 in 2017 and again in 2019 with 42; and they posted no fewer than 30 victories for seven consecutive seasons beginning in 2013. Rains previously served as lead assistant coach at the University of Texas at Dallas (2002-2010). He has a master’s degree in athletic administration from Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
