Jessica Pistole has been named the head coach at San Diego, the school announced late on Tuesday night.
Pistole spent five seasons as the head coach at Southern Oregon, a tenure that culminated in the NAIA National Championship title in the 2019 season. During that championship campaign, Pistole led the Raiders to a 52-8 overall record, including a 24-3 conference mark. The Raiders lost just one game in the entirety of the postseason, in the World Series championship round to force a winner-take-all final game, where they then emerged victorious.
The 2019 season marked the third consecutive year that Pistole led the Raiders to the NAIA World Series, as well as the second consecutive season the program reached the 50-win plateau. Southern Oregon never won fewer than thirty games under Pistole’s leadership, after posting a 15-23 record the season prior to her arrival.
Before assuming the helm at Southern Oregon, Pistole coached at the high school level, as well as stints as the head coach at NAIA schools Biola and William Jessup, including beginning the latter program from scratch and building it into a conference champion in two years. Her resume also includes a single season as an assistant coach at Utah State.
At San Diego, Pistole takes over a program that posted a 20-29 overall record on the 2019 season, including a 4-11 showing in West Coast Conference play. The Toreros recorded a team batting average of .267 and posted a cumulative team ERA of 4.56.
