The "Lane Train" ain't stoppin'.

Lane Burroughs, who received a contract extension on June 16, 2022 through the 2026-27 season, will enter his ninth season in charge of the Louisiana Tech baseball program in 2025.

On this eight-year "Lane Train" has been a series of successes:

• 278-161 overall record (seven winning seasons)
• 34 All-Conference USA selections
• 22 wins over nationally ranked opponents
• 19 ABCA/Rawlings All-Region selections
• 12 Bulldogs taken in the MLB Draft
• 11 All-Americans
• 6 Academic All-Americans
• 3 NCAA Regional appearances (hosted 2021 Regional as No. 16 overall seed)
• 2 CUSA Defensive Players of the Year
• 1 CUSA Player of the Year
• 1 CUSA Pitcher of the Year
• 1 ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner
• 2 Conference USA regular season titles
• 1 Conference USA tournament title

In his eighth year with the Diamond Dogs, Burroughs led LA Tech to a 45-19 record while earning CUSA Co-Coach of the Year en route to a 2024 CUSA Regular Season Title and an NCAA Regional appearance in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The Bulldogs held a CUSA-best 11-1 record at home while securing a 30-7 record in the Love Shack, which tied the most wins at home since 1988. He also secured the second-most wins in a single season with 45. 

Burroughs has led LA Tech to three NCAA Regionals in the last four years along with three CUSA Conference Championships. 

Under his leadership in eight seasons at Louisiana Tech, Burroughs has produced 11 of the program's 14 All-Americans, including Parker Bates, Taylor Young, and Ethan Bates, who have earned multiple All-American honors at Louisiana Tech.

The 2023 season proved to be the toughest of the seven as the Bulldogs finished with an overall record of 28-31, but Burroughs has vowed to get the program back to where they were. And that was back-to-back NCAA Regionals and conference titles in 2021 and 2022.

Burroughs led the Bulldogs in 2022 to 43 wins (tied for the second most in program history) as well as their second consecutive NCAA Regional appearance for the first time since 1986 and 1987 and tenth in program history while notching 85 total wins in the past two seasons. After a 4-1 record and back-to-back walk-off victories over Old Dominion and UTSA the Bulldogs brought home their first Conference USA Tournament Title in the schools history.

He captured his 300th career win as a collegiate head coach after a doubleheader sweep of Marshall and his 200th win at LA Tech on the final game of the regular season in a 14-5 win over Charlotte. Among those 300 victories was an 11-6 victory over No. 2 LSU at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park, making the most of hosting the in-state Tigers for the first time in 25 years. A month later, LA Tech traveled down to Baton Rouge and took the season series with a 7-6 12-inning thriller, marking back-to-back wins over LSU for the first time since 1983 and 1984.
 
Burroughs was named the 2021 LSWA Louisiana Coach of the Year after leading the Diamond 'Dogs to their sixth 40-win season in program history with 42 victories. The Bulldogs ended up hosting an NCAA Regional for the first time in program history as the No. 16 overall seed.
 
The Diamond 'Dogs made it to the Regional final after defeating Rider 18-2 and SEC foe Alabama 10-8. LA Tech’s win over the Crimson Tide secured its third win over a different SEC opponent in a single season (Alabama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss) for the first time since 1987. Burroughs also guided LA Tech to its first division title since 1992 by winning Conference USA’s Western Division title on the final day of the C-USA season.
 
Burroughs and his staff also helped lead the Diamond 'Dogs to their first win over a No. 1 team in program history with a 2-0 shutout of top-ranked Arkansas at the Love Shack.

The 2020 season was only 17 games deep before the public health threat of COVID-19 resulted in the cancelation of the remainder of the season. In 2019, Burroughs led LA Tech to a 34-24 overall record. Though a mid-April tornado forced the Bulldogs out of J.C. Love Field, LA Tech picked up four wins over ranked teams in 2019, defeating Arkansas, LSU, and Florida Atlantic.

In 2018, Burroughs led the Bulldogs to a 39-20 record - including a program-record 21 victories in conference play - en route to the second seed in the C-USA Tournament after the team was picked to finish seventh in the preseason poll. Under his leadership, the Bulldogs won 18 true road games (sixth-most in NCAA, and most in C-USA) for the first time since 1982. Tech also finished a perfect 5-0 in league series on the road. 

Tech also claimed several signature victories in 2018, including wins over Power 5 foes in then No. 9 Texas A&M and Cal, as Tech claimed The Frisco Classic Championship Title. Burroughs also led the Bulldogs to a road series win over then No. 9 Southern Miss, finishing as the only team to beat the Golden Eagles in a regular-season series in 2018.

In his first year in Ruston, Burroughs registered a 36-20 inaugural season. The Bulldogs held the nation's longest home winning streak after knocking off nationally-ranked Arkansas on February 28.

Burroughs joined the LA Tech family after spending the past four years as the head baseball coach at Northwestern State, where he compiled 113 wins and led the Demons to three straight 30-win seasons from 2014-16.

In his final three seasons in Natchitoches, Burroughs guided Northwestern State to a 97-73 record and qualified for the Southland Conference Tournament each year, while the Demons averaged 19.7 conference wins in that span.

In 2016, the Meridian, Mississippi native led Northwestern State to a 33-24 record, while the Demons recorded back-to-back seasons of 20 Southland Conference victories and ended the season No. 47 in the NCAA Ratings Percentage Index (RPI).

After being named head coach at Northwestern State in 2013, Burroughs was tasked with the job of rebuilding the historic baseball program and delivered soon after taking over the helm. Burroughs guided the Demons to the largest turnaround in Southland Conference history after NSU increased its league win total from 2013 to 2014 by 14 to finish third in the Southland, while NSU also tied the school record for the largest increase in total wins from a previous season with 17 more victories than the previous season.

Prior to being named the Demons skipper in 2013, Burroughs spent a total of 17 years as an assistant coach at Mississippi College (1996), East Mississippi Community College (1997), Northwestern State (1998), Southern Miss (1999-2007), Kansas State (2008) and Mississippi State (2009-12). In all, the 21-year veteran has coached in the SEC, Big 12, Conference USA and Southland Conference.

Burroughs spent four seasons as the recruiting coordinator and assistant under John Cohen at Mississippi State from 2009-12, while the new LA Tech skipper also brings nine years of Conference USA experience with him to Ruston after he spent time on Corky Palmer’s staff at Southern Miss from 1999-2007. Burroughs served as the hitting coach, recruiting coordinator and infield coach for the Golden Eagles and helped lead Southern Miss to six NCAA Regional appearances in nine seasons before spending one year coaching in the Big 12 as an assistant at Kansas State.

Early in his coaching career, Burroughs also spent the 1998 season as an assistant under Cohen, who was the head coach at Northwestern State, as the two helped lead the Demons to 40 wins and a Southland Conference title.

Burroughs began his coaching career in 1996 as a graduate assistant at Mississippi College before spending the 1997 season as an assistant at East Mississippi Community College.

As an assistant, Burroughs coached eight NCAA Regional tournament teams.

During his playing career, Burroughs spent two years at Meridian Community College where he helped lead the Eagles to back-to-back Region 23 championships and the NJCAA College World Series in 1993. From 1994-95, Burroughs was an outfielder and catcher for Mississippi College and earned first team All-Gulf South Conference honors.

Burroughs studied pre-law at Mississippi College, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1995, before earning his master’s in social sciences in 1996.

Burroughs and his wife, Susan, have three children: Parker Grace, Camryn Laine, and Thomas Jackson.