Jason Laws joined the High Point University baseball coaching staff in August of 2014 before being elevated to Recruiting Coordinator in August of 2017. In October of 2019, Laws was promoted to Associate Head Coach. HPU has finished outside the top five of the Big South only once since he arrived and the team has never had a losing record during his tenure. He helped High Point make an appearance in the Big South Championship game for the first time in program history in 2018. Five Panthers have been taken in the MLB draft since Laws started, most recently
Daniel Millwee, taken in the 30th round by the Chicago White Sox in the 2019 MLB First-Year Draft.
Laws worked for two seasons (2013-14) as the Director of Baseball Operations at the University of Virginia. His responsibilities with UVA included serving as the team's travel coordinator and also assisting with all aspects of game day operations and on-campus recruiting.
Prior to joining the Cavaliers, Laws was an assistant coach at Arkansas State for one season (2012). While at ASU he was in charge of the catchers, assisted with the hitters and fieldwork and served as camp coordinator.
Laws was an assistant coach at South Dakota State in 2010-11 while he earned his master's degree in Sport and Recreation Studies from SDSU. He also served as the head coach for the El Dorado Broadcos of the Jayhawk Summer League in 2011 and an assistant coach in 2010 with the San Diego Waves summer team, which qualified for the NBC World Series.
Laws graduated from Murray State in 2010. He was a First-Team All-Conference selection in 2009 after hitting .373 as the starting DH for the Racers. He moved into the starting catcher role as a senior and batted .314 with 14 doubles and four home runs.
In two seasons with the Racers, Laws batted .342 and had more extra base hits (34) and walks (37) than strikeouts (32).
Laws played the 2008 season at Palomar Junior College, where he was a Pacific Coast Conference Honorable Mention selection at catcher.
