Gina Snyder is joining the North Florida coaching staff for the 2022 season, JWOS confirmed on Friday. UNF assistant coach Jeff Conrad posted a photo on social media that labeled Snyder as the Ospreys’ new volunteer assistant coach. Additional sources later confirmed the appointment to JWOS. Snyder spent the 2021 season as the graduate assistant on staff at Jacksonville. For the past two summers, she has served as a head coach in the Florida Gulf Coast League, leading the Bradenton Slice in the summer league. During her playing career, Snyder spent two seasons at Purdue before finishing her career at…
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Sisters Eliyah and Alycia Flores have announced plans to transfer to Boise State. The Flores sisters did not play for Oklahoma during the 2021 season, having departed the program ahead of the Sooners’ eventual national-championship campaign. Alycia Flores entered the transfer portal in late March, though older sister Eliyah did not do so until mid-June. “Keep talkin, I ain’t done yet,” Eliyah Flores wrote on Instagram on Thursday. “Super blessed for the opportunity Coach [Justin] Shults has given us. So excited to be a part of his program! Flores sisters are back.” The post was accompanied by several photos of…
UT-Arlington has hired Erin Arevalo as the program’s new assistant coach. Arevalo will work directly with the Mavericks’ pitching staff. She joins the Mavs after spending the 2021 season as a volunteer assistant at Oklahoma, where she was part of the coaching staff that helped lead the Sooners to the national championship. Prior to her tenure at Oklahoma, Arevalo spent three seasons as the pitching coach at Indiana State, helping lead the Sycamores to their best conference finish in nearly three decades in 2018. She guided the staff to a single-season saves record also in 2018. Her coaching resume also…
Former Texas pitcher Ryleigh White has announced plans to transfer to Tennessee. “Looking forward to giving my all to Tennessee EVERYday! I am now a Lady Vol,” White wrote on Instagram on Thursday evening. As a freshman in 2021, White collected a 3.57 ERA and a 1.51 WHIP in fifty-one innings of work. Part of a 5-member pitching staff in Austin, White went 5-1 on the year and notched 40 strikeouts, while opponents hit .247 against her. She is the second high-profile transfer to join Tennessee’s pitching staff this summer; former Texas Tech pitcher Erin Edmoundson previously announced plans to…
Amber Bowman has been named the head coach at Purdue Fort Wayne, the school announced on Thursday morning. Bowman spent four seasons as an assistant coach at PFW from 2016-19. She helped lead the Mastodons to the Summit League tournament semifinals twice during her tenure and saw the program notch six all-conference selections during the period. “We are very excited that Coach Bowman is coming home to Fort Wayne,” PFW athletic director Kelley Hartley Hutton said in a school staement. “Her familiarity with the Mastodon family and head coaching experience made her an easy choice to lead our softball program…
Six Olympic softball games are officially in the books after two days of play. Italy and Australia rounded out the day two slate with a one-run ballgame that finished in the wee hours of Thursday morning on the East coast. Teams will have a day off as they travel to Tokyo for the final games of the round-robin tournament, and games will resume on Friday. DAY TWO FINAL SCORES:United States 1, Canada 0Japan 3, Mexico 2 (8)Australia 1, Italy 0 Some takeaways after day two action in Tokyo… Team USA is a three-woman show The Senior Stateswomen of Team USA…
DON’T MISS: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER The International Olympic Committee has selected Brisbane, Queensland, Australia as the host for the 2032 Summer Olympic Games. IOC members voted to award the 2032 Games to the Australian city in a 72-5 vote that was held ahead of this week’s Opening Ceremonies in Tokyo. The award means Brisbane will host the Games for the first time in ’32; Australia most recently hosted the Games in Sydney in 2000. Brisbane in 2032 will follow the 2024 Paris and 2028 Los Angeles Games, awards that were jointly announced in 2017. Brisbane is the third-most populous…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER The aces were out in full force to open the Olympics, with all six softball teams in Tokyo throwing their best pitcher to try to start the Games on the right foot. FINAL SCORES:Japan 8, Australia 1United States 2, Italy 0Canada 4, Mexico 0 Condensed game recaps of all three matchups follow… AUSTRALIA VS. JAPAN For Japan, that meant Yukiko Ueno in the circle. Facing Australia, Ueno struggled in the first inning, taking some extra time to get settled and giving up a hit and three free passes in the opening frame. After four…
DON’T MISS: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Carl Taylor is no longer the head coach at Drexel, sources informed JWOS on Wednesday. On the Dragons’ official website, the head softball coach is listed as “TBA”. Taylor and assistant coaches Ray and Michelle Hastings are no longer listed on the Drexel athletic staff directory, though they have not yet been removed from the team’s online roster. An article from the Philadelphia Inquirer in early June noted that Taylor and both assistants had been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation. The Inquirer noted the school’s characterization of the investigation…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Former Arizona All-American and current Mexican national team pitcher Danielle O’Toole will make her big-screen debut in the film Jackass Forever. O’Toole appeared in the 2 minute, 20 second film trailer, which appeared online on Tuesday. You’ll have to watch the trailer itself to see O’Toole’s cameo, but suffice it to say that she shows off her pitching skills. In addition to O’Toole, other sports stars appearing in the trailer or mentioned in the film’s online credits include Shaquille O’Neal and Tony Hawk. Originally a reality-comedy TV show, the Jackass brand expanded following the…