Prior to coming to MRA, Coach Fugler was the defensive coordinator for junior high football at Jackson Prep. He was an assistant basketball coach at MRA the previous year. He has also coached at Kirk Academy and Brookhaven Academy where he served various roles including head junior high football coach, assistant high school football coach and head baseball coach. Coach Fugler received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Southern Mississippi. He played baseball at Copiah Lincoln Community College.
Chad Lipscomb is a 1994 graduate of Natchez Cathedral and a 1998 graduate of Delta State University. Coach Lipscomb was a team member of the Delta State Baseball program for three years, including 1996 when they won the Gulf South Conference and reached the Division II World Series. This will be his 9th year at MRA and his 20th overall teaching/coaching. He began his career as a high school football assistant at Trinity Episcopal in Natchez. He then coached two years at Adams County Christian School in Natchez, where he was the head junior high football coach and head varsity baseball coach. From 2000-2008 he coached at Manchester Academy in Yazoo City, where he started out being the head junior high football and head baseball coach. He later became the Athletic Director and head football coach. While at MRA, Lipscomb has served as head junior high football, assistant for high school football, and serves an assistant in baseball, who helped lead to the Division I AAA State Championship in 2012 and the AAAA State Championship in 2016. He has two children, Kaleb (13) and Sarah Glen (10). His family are members of Broadmoor Baptist Church in Madison.