Bethune-Cookman pitcher Alexis Bermudez has entered the NCAA’s transfer portal, sources confirmed to JWOS on Wednesday. Bermudez has a full trophy case from her two years at BCU, including being named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s Pitcher of the Year after the 2019 season. She was named the league’s Rookie of the Year in 2018, and helped lead Bethune Cookman to back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances. As a freshman in 2018, Bermudez led the BCU squad with a 3.32 ERA and recorded thirteen victories. She finished second on the team with sixty-six strikeouts that year, while adding a .278 batting average in…
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Davenport University has hired Amber Bowman as the program’s new head coach, the school announced on Wednesday. Bowman spent the last four seasons at Purdue Fort Wayne as an assistant coach, coaching the Mastodons in the Division I Summit League since 2016. Prior to joining the staff at Purdue Fort Wayne, Bowman spent a single season as head coach of NAIA Rio Grande, leading that program to their best win-loss record in more than a decade and an appearance in the NAIA national tournament. Her coaching resume also includes a stint on staff at Northwestern Ohio and an initial stint on…
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…
Missouri assistant coach Chris Malveaux has been promoted to the title of Associate Head Coach for the Tigers. Head coach Larissa Anderson made the announcement on Tuesday, stating via Twitter, “”Well deserved promotion! Congrats [Chris Malveaux] on being promoted to Associate Head Coach. Way to own your role!” Malveaux joined Anderson’s staff last summer, and helped engineer a swift turnaround in the team’s offense. The Tigers hit .284 as a team, boasting four players over the .300 mark on the year. A trio of players reached double-digits in home runs, including Kimberly Wert, whose nineteen longballs led the team and tied…
UPDATE 09/17/19: Ohio State officially announced Buresch’s addition in a press release earlier today. ORIGINAL STORY: Payton Buresch has found her new destination, electing to transfer to Ohio State, according to a report on Tuesday by Softball America. Buresch entered the NCAA’s transfer portal earlier in the summer, a report that JWOS brought to you in June. She earned all-conference second-team honors in 2019 after posting a 6-1 win-loss record and a 1.64 ERA in forty-seven innings in the circle. She was used primarily in a relief role, with just four starts in nineteen appearances. During the 2018 season, her freshman…
Idaho State has hired Cristal Brown as the program’s new head coach, the school announced on Monday. Brown takes over at the helm of the Bengals after spending the last eight years at Division III Whitworth in Spokane, Washington. As the head coach at Whitworth, Brown amassed a 221-124 overall record, with a trio of conference regular-season titles in 2015-17. She led the Pirates to a pair of NCAA regional appearances in 2016 and 2017, and her team earned top-3 finishes in the conference standings in 2018 (3rd) and 2019 (2nd). During her introductory press conference on Monday afternoon, Brown…
First-year UConn head coach Laura Valentino has filled out her coaching staff with the hirings of Christie Novatin and Jessica Jacobson as assistants coaches. Novatin spent the last four seasons as an assistant coach at Princeton, helping lead the Tigers to a pair of Ivy League championships in 2016 and ’17. A former teammate of Valentino’s at Hofstra during her playing days, Novatin’s coaching resume also includes stints as an assistant at Albany, Rider, and Georgian Court College. She appeared in three NCAA tournaments during her playing days at Hofstra. Set to be the Huskies’ new pitching coach, Jacobson spent…
Miami (OH) has signed head coach Clarisa Crowell to a contract extension, the school announced last week. A university spokesperson confirmed to JWOS that the extension is a 3-year pact. The 2019 season marked Crowell’s seventh as the head coach of the RedHawks, and saw the first regular-season conference championship of her tenure with the program. Crowell was named the conference Coach of the Year after the season, the first such award of her tenure in Oxford, after leading the team to a 35-16 overall record. During her time at the helm of the RedHawks, Crowell has led the squad…
Akron has hired Meaggan Pettipiece as the program’s new head coach, the school announced on Thursday. Pettipiece spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Kent State, where she served as the top offensive assistant coach and worked with the program’s outfielders, base runners, and slappers. In 2017, Pettipiece was part of the staff that helped lead the Golden Flashes to the NCAA tournament for the first time in nearly a decade. Before joining the Golden Flashes’ coaching staff, Pettipiece spent a decade as the head coach at Division II Northwood University. While at Northwood, Pettipiece led the…
Southern Utah has made a change at the school’s head coaching position, announcing that Kortny Hall will not return as the program’s head coach. Hall spent a single season as the Thunderbirds’ coach, leading the squad to a 6-34 overall record and a 4-14 showing in Big Sky Conference play. Under her guidance, the Thunderbirds posted a team batting average of .276 and a cumulative ERA of 6.84 on the 2019 season. Before taking the reins at SUU, Hall spent a single season as an assistant coach for the Thunderbirds in 2018. Prior to joining the program, she spent three…