The Hofstra Pride have announced Jay Miller as the program’s next head coach. Miller is a victor of more than 1,000 games as a head coach, including at Missouri; Mississippi State; and NAIA Oklahoma City. He boasts a career record of 1004-668 and has led teams to thirteen appearances in the NCAA tournament, including a pair of Women’s College World Series appearances. As the head coach of Missouri from 1987-2002, Miller amassed 556 career wins and was twice named the conference’s Coach of the Year while it was still known as the Big Eight. He led the Tigers to a…
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Former Texas A&M speedster Keeli Milligan has made a decision on her new home, as she will transfer to Louisiana-Lafayette, sources have confirmed to Justin’s World of Softball. Milligan announced earlier in June that she would be leaving the Aggies program following the completion of her junior season in 2018. She received her release from Texas A&M and will be eligible to play immediately in 2019 at Louisiana-Lafayette. A speedy outfielder, Milligan was named to the National Player of the Year watch list before the 2017 season. She was a top ten finalist for the Division I National Freshman of…
Ball State has signed head coach Megan Bartlett to a contract extension that will stretch through the 2021 season. The 2018 season was the Cardinals’ best during Bartlett’s three-year tenure as head coach, as the program posted a 37-19 overall record and earned a share of the MAC West Division title with a 16-7 conference mark. Bartlett owns a career 89-79 record at Ball State, the first head coaching position of her storied career. She has coached a trio of all-region players during her tenure and has tutored nineteen academic all-conference honorees. In a press release announcing the extension, Ball…
Who is she? Shannon Bustillos, a former catcher and power hitter for the Maryland Terrapins. What is she known for? One of the top players at her position during her time as a Terp, Bustillos also ended her playing career as one of the best hitters in Maryland program history. At the time of her graduation, she held the all-time program home run record and still holds the career RBI mark. Named a second-team all-conference honoree in her senior season, Bustillos led her team in home runs in three of her four years with the Terrapins. Here’s something interesting… As noted, Bustillos holds…
During his time as the head coach at Kennesaw State, Pete D’Amour was up front with his players: Only two schools could pull him away from the budding mid-major power that the Owls were quickly becoming. One of those schools was West Virginia, a Big 12 school that does not sponsor softball. The other was Virginia Tech. The Hokies had only had one head coach since the program’s inception and are one of just two teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference to ever reach the Women’s College Series. It didn’t look like that job would be open anytime soon, either.…
A plethora of big-name, top-quality players will be suiting up in different uniforms in 2019, and we’ve got you covered to make sure you don’t miss a single one of them. Missouri has seen a mass exodus of top talent, including sluggers Braxton Burnside and Amanda Sanchez. The pair will be joined in leaving Columbia by Rylee Pierce, an all-SEC infielder who will head to Tucson, Arizona where she’ll join Mike Candrea’s Wildcats for her senior season in 2019. During her three-year career at Mizzou, Pierce hit .306 with twenty-four home runs and seventy-five RBI. The Tigers’ starting first baseman…
Mike White has been named the new head coach at Texas, a move that was first brought to you by Justin’s World of Softball. The Oregon head coach leaves the Ducks after a nine-year tenure that included five PAC-12 conference championships, including the 2018 title. The Ducks were the #1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament this postseason, and were eliminated in the second round of the Women’s College World Series. Oregon made five WCWS appearances under White, including in 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2017 in addition to their ’18 berth. The Ducks have appeared in nine straight Super Regionals. Known for his pitching…
Mississippi State’s Alex Wilcox has passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 18 years old. Wilcox was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2015 and joined Mississippi State as a freshman outfielder for the 2018 season. Playing sparingly, as she continued to receive treatments for the cancer, Wilcox earned fifteen at-bats in eight games in her sole season as a Bulldog, collecting three hits. The Brantley, Alabama native served as the inspiration for the “No One Fights Alone” campaign that took the SEC and the game of softball by storm as conference opponents and other teams strove to…
The Women’s College World Series is over and for college softball teams, at least, the wait now begins for the 2019 season. But softball never ends here at JWOS, and today, we are crowning the best of the best as we announce our 2018 all-Americans. Player of the Year Rachel Garcia headlines the all-American 1st team. 1st Team Megan Kleist, P, Oregon Kelly Barnhill, P, Florida Kylee Hanson, P, Florida State Gwen Svekis, C, Oregon Alyssa Palomino, 1B, Arizona Sydney Sherrill, 2B, Florida State Vanessa Shippy, 3B, Oklahoma State Meghan Gregg, SS, Tennessee Amanda Lorenz, OF, Florida Aaliyah Jordan, OF,…
James Madison and head coach Loren LaPorte have agreed to a four-year contract extension that will last through June of 2022. LaPorte took over as interim head coach of the Dukes following previous head coach Mickey Dean’s departure to become head coach at Auburn. The interim tag was taken off of LaPorte’s title in December as she received a short-term contract that was scheduled to run through the end of June. In her lone season at the helm of the Dukes, LaPorte led the program to a 43-14 overall record and a 19-2 mark in CAA conference play. The Dukes won the…