Nic Mishler enters his seventh year at DMACC and sixth year as head coach for the Bears in 2024-2025. In Mishler’s time at DMACC as head coach, the program has won 133 games over four full seasons and the shortened Covid season. In 2024 the Bears won 38 games, won the Region 11 tournament, won the North Plains District tournament and qualified for NJCAA Divison II World series where they tied for 5th place and won two games including a 16-7 victory over the defending champions in Heartland in the second round of the World Series. Mishler was named NJCAA and ABCA North Plains Coach of the year for his teams’ efforts in the 2023-2024 season. The 2023-2024 season also saw DMACC pitcher Chance Key become a NJCAA All American as well as win ICCAC pitcher of the year. The 2024 team saw twenty-six guys commit to play baseball at four-year institutions with fifteen of the twenty-six committing to play at the NCAA Division 1 level which is the most be any team in the history of DMACC.

DMACC has seen 21 players win all region honors, multiple ICCAC and NJCAA players and pitchers of the week, and NJCAA Academic Team of the year twice under Mishler’s guidance. Since 2019 there have been ninety-eight DMACC players move on to four-year schools to continue their academic and baseball careers with fifty-three of those players going to NCAA Division 1 schools for an average of almost nine guys a year transferring to the NCAA Division 1 level. There have been twelve different players move on and play in NCAA Division 1 regionals, three different players play in NCAA Division 1 super regionals, one player (Evan Salmon) play in the NAIA World Series, two players (Austin Murr and Ben Nippolt) play in the NCAA Division 1 World Series and one player (Ben Nippolt) win the NCAA Division 1 World Series in 2023 as a member of the LSU Tigers.

Before becoming head coach, Mishler spent one season as pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for the Bears. Before coming to DMACC, Mishler was at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana for five years where he coached both catchers, and pitchers as well as played a big part in their recruiting efforts. He was the catching coach for three-year starter Scott Kapers, who was selected in the 2018 Major League Baseball Draft by the Texas Rangers. Kapers became the eighth Valpo player drafted in nine years and Valpo's highest draft pick since 2011. Along with Kapers, Mishler coached four additional players that were selected in the MLB draft or signed pro contracts with an affiliated team, including former DMACC Bear Ryan Fritze who signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Prior to his time at Valparaiso University, Mishler spent two years at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, where he served as the bullpen coach and assisted with pitchers. While at Grand Canyon University he was part of a staff, led by Head Coach Andy Stankiewicz, which went to the NCAA Division II World Series. During his time at Grand Canyon University there were two different pitchers taken in the MLB draft as well as one Rawlings Gold Glove winner.

Mishler spent the summer of 2013 as pitching coach of the East Texas Pump Jacks of the Texas Collegiate League. He also worked with infielders and outfielders while with East Texas.

Mishler played two years of collegiate baseball at Kellogg Community College where he served as the teams closer and pitched in the Division II Junior College World Series. After KCC, Mishler finished his bachelor’s degree in Sports Management at Grand Canyon University. A native of Shipshewana, Indiana, Mishler graduated from Westview Jr. Sr. High School in 2009.