UPDATE 06/18/19: Wichita State officially announced Lashley’s hiring in a press release on Monday. ORIGINAL STORY: Wichita State is hiring Morgan Lashley as the program’s new pitching coach. Lashley confirmed the move on her personal social media, though the school has not announced the hiring. In a message posted alongside a photo of herself and her dog on social media, Lashley said, “We’re headed to Wichita, KS! Super excited to announce I’ve accepted an assistant coach position at Wichita State University. Fen and I are looking forward to our new adventure In Shocker Nation #GoShockers” Lashley spent the last two years as a…
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Southern Miss has named Brian Levin as the program’s new head coach. Levin most recently was the head coach at Belmont, spending three seasons at the helm of the Bruins. During his tenure in Nashville, Levin led his team to the first-ever Division I postseason berth in program history, in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament in 2017, adding a second tournament berth after the 2019 season. Levin ended his Belmont tenure with a 91-70 overall record, the most wins in a three-year stretch in program history. Prior to taking over at Belmont, Levin spent six years as the head coach…
Former Louisiana-Lafayette second baseman Casidy Chaumont is transferring to Missouri, she announced last week. In a message posted on her Twitter account, Chaumont said, “Excited to say I’ll be continuing my academic and softball career a little bit further north at the University of Missouri. MIZ! ZOU! GO TIGERS”. Chaumont entered the NCAA transfer portal on June 3rd after a 2019 campaign that saw her post a .286 batting average and a .354 on-base percentage, appearing in forty-eight games with thirty-one starts. A two-year contributor to the Ragin Cajuns, Chaumont posted a .247 batting average over her career in Lafayette,…
Abilene Christian has named Abigail Farler as the Wildcats’ new head coach. Farler spent the last three seasons as the head coach at NAIA Corban University, compiling a 120-44 overall record and becoming the fastest coach in athletic department history – in any sport – to reach the 100-win mark. She led the Warriors to the NAIA National Tournament in each of her three seasons at the helm, including finishing as National Runner-Up at the NAIA World Series in 2017. During that 2017 season, her first year leading the program, Farler led the Warriors to a conference regular-season championship and,…
The Women’s College World Series is now a week behind us, and while UCLA Bruins fans are still celebrating their championship, college softball is done for the year. Record crowds flocked to Oklahoma City for this year’s championship tournament, for those who watched on television and weren’t able to experience all that Hall of Fame Stadium and Oklahoma City have to offer, we’ve got you covered with the Sights, Sounds, and even some Smells from the WCWS. Spotted *LSU superfan DeAngelo Sanchez – whose cheering and polarizing personality have made him a well-known character around the Baton Rouge and SEC…
Wheeling Jesuit (D2) head coach Sara Pelegreen stopped by to visit with our crew in Oklahoma City. On her first trip to the WCWS, the third-year Cardinals coach chose the trip for her bachelorette celebration and spent some time with us to talk about the experience. On experiencing the WCWS for the first time… “My friends and I are here for my bachelorette party, and I don’t think I’ve ever had cold chills in 80-degree weather before, but I walked in and immediately started tearing up. This has been a dream of mine for so long, to be able to…
Haverford (D3) head coach Kate Poppe stopped by to visit with our crew in Oklahoma City. Poppe won tickets to the Women’s College World Series through a contest put on by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and got to experience the WCWS for the first time. A former standout pitcher at Villanova, she spent some time chatting about her experience at the WCWS and coaching in close proximity to her alma mater. On finding out that she had won tickets to the WCWS… “There was a list of options [for prizes], and I knew right away that I was…
Brian Dunn has been hired as the new head coach at UT-Martin. Dunn is the fourth head coach in program history and follows the retired Donley Canary in the position. Canary retired after the 2019 season and is the winningest coach in program history. For his part, Dunn was most recently the head coach at the University School of Jackson, a high school approximately an hour from UT-Martin’s campus. The program’s coach since 2005, Dunn led his team to state titles in 2010 and 2012. Dunn’s coaching resume includes a nine-year stint at Union University, where he led the program…
Pitchers Payton Buresch of James Madison and Trystan Melancon of Houston both entered the transfer portal on Tuesday, sources have confirmed to JWOS. Buresch will enter her junior season in 2020 after spending the first two years of her career at JMU. As a freshman in 2018, Buresch earned the Colonial Athletic Association’s Rookie of the Year award and was named to the all-region first team and all-conference second team. She finished the campaign with an 18-5 overall record and a 1.96 ERA with ninety strikeouts to her credit in 153.2 innings of work in the circle. In 2019, Buresch…
Pay a visit to the campus of Campbell University and you’ll come upon Amanda Littlejohn Stadium, the school’s softball facility. The home of the Fighting Camels’ softball program – and the host of the most recent edition of the Big South conference tournament – the facility includes grandstands behind the plate that seat some 400 fans. But just who is Amanda Littlejohn, after whom this facility is named? Littlejohn was the starting catcher for the Fighting Camels for a pair of seasons, including the 2008 campaign where she hit .367 with fifteen home runs and a single-season school record seventy-two…