Rachel Glazebrook, a member of the coaching staff at Union University, was found dead in her home on Wednesday. She was 27 years old. Glazebrook spent her playing career at North Greenville University, a Division II school in South Carolina. During her playing career at North Greenville, Glazebrook earned the conference Player of the Year award in 2014 and earned NCCAA all-American honors. She ended her playing career with a .388 batting average, fourteen home runs, and 141 career hits. A dual-threat player, Glazebrook recorded forty-five wins from the pitching circle, with 661 career strikeouts. Boasting a burgeoning trophy case from…
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In a widely-expected move, Texas has officially announced the additions of Miranda Elish and Lauren Burke to the program’s 2019 roster. Both Elish and Burke previously played for Texas head coach Mike White during his tenure as head coach at Oregon. White was hired to lead the Longhorns earlier in the summer. Elish was a second-team all-American selection during the 2018 season and absorbed the lion’s share of the Ducks’ workload in the pitching circle during the Women’s College World Series. She began her career with a perfect 23-0 record that stretched across her first two collegiate seasons, as she…
Houston has signed head coach Kristin Vesely to a contract extension through the 2021 season. Vesely owns sixty-seven victories in just two years as the Cougars’ head coach and led the program back to the NCAA tournament’s regional round in 2018 via an at-large bid from the American Athletic Conference. Promoted to the position of head coach prior to the 2017 season, Vesely has led Houston to back-to-back 30-win campaigns and shepherded nine all-conference selections. Under Vesely’s tutelage, Shelby Miller was named the 2017 AAC Co-Player of the Year and Savannah Heebner earned all-American honors in 2018, as well as…
Michelle DePolo has stepped down from her position as the head coach at Army, according to an announcement by the school late Monday evening. DePolo spent nine years as the Black Knights’ head coach and led the program to the NCAA tournament via a Patriot League tournament title in 2012. She led the program to 39 victories in the 2016 season, the program record for wins in a single season, and was twice named the Patriot League’s Coach of the Year. During her tenure at Army, DePolo also served as the program’s pitching coach and, in 2016, tutored Renee Poirier to…
Florida International and head coach Gator Rebhan have parted ways in what is being described as a “mutual separation”, sources have confirmed to JWOS. Rebhan spent four seasons as the head coach of the Panthers, with the highlight of his tenure coming with an at-large NCAA tournament berth in 2017. The program set single-season record for wins and winning percentage during the 2017 season and ranked in the top fifteen nationally in ERA and fielding percentage. During Rebhan’s tenure at the program’s helm, the Panthers recorded a 135-91 overall record and a 53-40 record in Conference USA matchups. Before assuming the program’s…
Molly Fichtner has been named the head coach at Louisiana-Monroe. Fichtner most recently served as an assistant coach at East Carolina during the 2018 season, helping the Pirates to twenty-three wins and a team batting average of .239 in her sole season in Greenville. Prior to her tenure at East Carolina, Fichtner spent two years as an assistant coach at Dartmouth and had a single-season stint as a volunteer assistant at Alabama, her alma mater, following her playing career with the Crimson Tide. During her collegiate playing career, Fichtner began her career at UT-San Antonio and twice earned all-Southland Conference…
Northwestern and head coach Kate Drohan have agreed to a contract extension, the school announced on Thursday. The pact is a five-year extension that will keep Drohan at the helm of the Wildcats through the 2023 season. Drohan has been the head coach at Northwestern since 2002. Drohan is thirty wins away from the 600-victory plateau for her career with the Wildcats, and owns the third-highest career winning percentage in Big Ten conference history. Under her guidance, the program has appeared in the NCAA tournament twelve times, with four Super Regional appearances and a pair of Women’s College World Series…
Arkansas and head coach Courtney Deifel have agreed to a contract extension. Deifel will enter her fourth season as the Razorbacks’ head coach in 2019 and will look to help her team build off of their first-ever Super Regional appearance during the 2018 season. The Hogs have climbed through the ranks of the SEC and on the national level during Deifel’s tenure. During the 2018 season, Deifel helped the program to multiple firsts, including the Super Regional appearance and hosting the program’s first-ever regional at Bogle Park in Fayetteville. In 2017, the Hogs led Power 5 teams with a 17-win…
Alabama A&M has named Cassandra Brown as the program’s new head coach. Brown, a program alum, follows in the stead and takes the program’s reins from former head coach Nakeya Hall, who accepted the head coaching position at Grambling earlier in the summer. An assistant coach for the Lady Bulldogs from 2015-17, Brown served at that time as the program’s pitching coach and worked with players on both ends of the A&M battery. Brown’s coaching resume includes only the previous stint on the staff at her alma mater, as she joined the program’s coaching staff directly following her own playing…
Ben Garcia has been hired as the new head coach at Northern Colorado. Garcia spent the last four seasons at Division II Colorado Mesa, leading that program to the NCAA tournament in three consecutive seasons. Under his guidance, the Mavericks posted a 169-49 overall record and a 131-21 conference record. During his time at Colorado Mesa, Garcia was twice named the conference Coach of the Year, in 2016 and 2018. The program ended the 2018 campaign with a 48-5 overall record and were ranked #1 in the nation for seven straight weeks. Before assuming the helm at CMU, Garcia spent…