Former Utah backstop Kelly Martinez has transferred to Texas A&M. Martinez left Utah earlier in the fall and originally transferred to Texas; she was seen, at one point, participating in a photo shoot with other incoming Longhorn transfers Miranda Elish and Lauren Burke. Her brief stint at Texas was not mentioned in the Texas A&M news release announcing her addition. At Utah, Martinez earned all-PAC 12 freshman honors in 2017 and finished her two seasons in Salt Lake City with a .290 batting average and eleven home runs across her freshman and sophomore campaigns. She led the Utes program with…
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Reigning PAC-12 Pitcher of the Year Megan Kleist will not pitch during the 2019 season. In December, Kleist had announced her transfer to Louisiana-Lafayette from Oregon, where she spent the three seasons of her career and earned a pair of all-American honors. On Tuesday, Kleist announced on her Twitter account that she will sit out the 2019 season while completing her degree at Oregon. As noted in her post, sources also confirmed to JWOS that Kleist is still expected to play for the ULL Ragin’ Cajuns, but during the 2020 season as a graduate transfer. Kleist posted a 59-18 overall…
After a weeklong tryout in Florida, Team USA has announced their 18-member roster for 2019. Headlining the roster are former Olympic greats Monica Abbott and Cat Osterman, the latter proving successful in her comeback attempt ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games. Abbott played for Team USA in 2018. Both Abbott and Osterman were members of Team USA in 2008, the last time that the sport of softball was played in the Olympic Games, and helped lead the US team to a silver medal in the Beijing Olympics that year. Team USA veterans Valerie Arioto and Michelle Moultrie – two of…
One of the finest players in Kansas softball history, Maggie Hull-Tietz graduated in 2013 as an all-American and the program’s all-time leader in hits, runs, and batting average. In the summer of 2016, she returned to her alma mater as the Director of Operations on Megan Smith’s Jayhawks coaching staff. Hull-Tietz spent two seasons in the position before departing after the 2018 spring season. Following her departure from the program, Hull-Tietz penned a letter that she shared with JWOS. In it, she opened up about her tenure on the Jayhawks staff; her decision to leave; and the new venture that…
Bob Guerriero has been named the full-time head coach at St. John’s, according to a university press release issued on Wednesday. Guerriero has served since September of 2018 as the program’s leader on an interim basis, replacing Amy Kvilhaug as head coach upon her retirement. Before being named to the interim position, Guerriero spent six seasons on the Johnnies’ coaching staff as an assistant. He previously spent a dozen years on the coaching staff at Seton Hall, helping lead the Pirates to five Big East conference championships. In 2017, Guerriero was part of the Johnnies’ coaching staff that was named…
In the late fall of 2017, Western Illinois announced a head coaching change. Longtime head coach Holly Van Vlymen would be moving into an administrative role in the athletic department and program alum and assistant coach Beth Golitko would be named the interim head coach. Golitko would carry the interim tag into and through the 2018 season, and the process of the changing of the guard was one that she says definitely had an effect on her team. “It was a good year for us,” Golitko said. “I thought we did a good job dealing with adversity this year, with…
Who is she? Brittney Gossett, a former pitcher and team captain for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. What is she known for? Gossett was the Fighting Irish ace for most of her career in South Bend, earning ninety-two career victories. Her wins total ranks third in Fighting Irish program history, while her 819 career strikeouts ranks fourth all-time. She was named the Big East Championship’s Most Outstanding Player in 2009, helping lead the Irish to the NCAA tournament. She earned a pair of all-conference and all-region honors during her junior and senior seasons. Here’s something interesting… Brittney shares a funny…
(We made a list. We checked it twice. For the past week and a half, we’ve been counting down the top ten headlines in softball from 2018! Today, we look at #1 on our list. In case you missed any of our countdown, check out the rest of the top 10 here: 10. Missouri fires Ehren Earleywine 9. Conference realignments retool the ASun and occur coast to coast 8. Cat Osterman returns to the circle 7. Southern Indiana makes a run, wins Division II title 6. Alex Wilcox inspires 5. Florida State takes home the national championship 4. Coaching carousel winds…
(We made a list. We checked it twice. From now until New Year’s Eve, we are counting down the top ten headlines of 2018. Today, we look at #2 on our list.) 2. Team USA earns berth in 2020 Olympics Softball returns to the Olympic Games in 2020 after an eight-year absence, and this summer’s slate of international softball saw the United States clinch the first qualifying berth for the Games. The United States ultimately only needed to reach the championship game of the World Championships in Chiba, Japan to clinch their spot in Tokyo in 2020. Set to face off against…
The name Yvette Girouard is practically synonymous with the game of softball in the state of Louisiana. The former head coach of both the Southwestern Louisiana (now Louisiana-Lafayette) Ragin’ Cajuns and the LSU Tigers, Girouard is an NFCA Hall of Famer and is also a member of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Girouard retired from coaching following the 2011 season, but has certainly not disappeared from the softball scene. An ambassador for Baton Rouge-based Marucci, Girouard also serves as a color commentator for the SEC Network for television and online broadcasts throughout the season. We caught up with Girouard…