The list of head coaching openings still available before the 2018 season got smaller this week, with the hiring of Mickey Dean at Auburn and Fairleigh Dickinson’s hiring of Chris Foye a day earlier. Foye joins the Knights after a single-season stint at NYU, where he served as an assistant coach and helped lead the Violets to a .500 record of 19-19. Prior to his time at NYU, Foye had been head coach at Felician University in New Jersey for three years, during which time he amassed a 55-76 win-loss record, with a record of 35-43 in Central Atlantic Collegiate…
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Sources have confirmed to JWOS that James Madison head coach Mickey Dean will be named to the Tigers’ vacant head coaching position. Dean had been head coach at James Madison for five seasons and elevated the program to become one of the nation’s elite. The Dukes received a national seed in the 2016 NCAA tournament and hosted a Super Regional in Harrisonburg that same year. In 2017, the Dukes set a program record for single-season victories with fifty-two on the year. Four times the Colonial Athletic Association’s Coach of the Year, Dean collected 237 wins during his time at JMU,…
Who is she? Dani Devlin, a former catcher and designated hitter for the Northern Kentucky Norse. What is she known for? In 2017, her last season as a player for the Norse, Devlin earned first-team all-Horizon League honors following the season. Her thirteen home runs as a seniorranked second-most in single-season program history, while her thirty-one career home runs were good enough for second all-time in the program’s history. Dani earned all-Atlantic Sun first-team honors in 2015, prior to the Norse’s conference change. Here’s something interesting… Devlin’s brother, Paddy, is a redshirt freshman wide receiver for the South Dakota…
UPDATE 09/19/17 14:12 When contacted by Justin’s World of Softball, Villanova alum and current Lafayette College head coach Caitlyn de la Haba had this to say about DiBernardi’s announcement: “Coach Maria is unique in that she has gotten to be around this game at a high level for a long time. She has seen the game change, and continuously adapted and graduated successful women who go on to do fantastic things after graduation. She has truly seen it all. I couldn’t be where I am today without Coach Maria. She has been such an important piece of my development as a…
Who is she? Trista Cox, a former star infielder for the Central Michigan Cippewas. What is she known for? After beginning her career quietly at Louisville, Cox transferred to CMU and made an immediate impact, earning her first of three consecutive all-conference selections. She was named to the all-MAC first-team in her senior season of 2015 and ended her career in the top five in program history in career home runs. Here’s something interesting… Trista and then-boyfriend Tyler Sunderland went mini-viral online after Tyler dropped to one knee and proposed at home plate on the Chippewas’ Senior Day in Trista’s…
Texas A&M has signed head coach Jo Evans to a five-year contract that is expected to keep her in College Station through 2022. The Aggies’ leader for twenty-one years, Evans led the Aggies to the Women’s College World Series in 2017 for the first time since 2008 and the third time during her tenure that has spanned more than two decades. Evans’ squad has reached the NCAA tournament eighteen times during her career with the Aggies, reaching the Super Regionals six times. In 2008, the Aggies won the Big 12 championship and finished as the Women’s College World Series runner-up…
Florida State assistant coach Travis Wilson and Penn head coach Leslie King were among a group of four who were inducted into the Softball New Zealand Hall of Fame on Saturday. Wilson, a ‘Noles assistant since 2012, played for various levels of the New Zealand Black Sox national program during separate stints with the program in the 1990s and the late 2000s. Wilson began his national team career as a member of the Junior Black Sox in 1993 and moved up to the Senior team a year later, where he stayed until 1997 when he began a minor league…
Courtney Martinez will be the new assistant coach at Iowa State, completing first-year head coach Jamie Pinkerton’s staff. Pinkerton previously added pitching coach Kate Sinnott to his staff, and retained Peter Suarez as Director of Operations from the previous administration. Pinkerton was hired as the program’s head coach earlier this month. Martinez was previously the associate head coach at UNLV, where she spent three years on the Rebels staff. Prior to her tenure in Las Vegas, Martinez’s coaching resume includes stints in various roles as an assistant at CSU-Bakersfield, Cal State Fullerton, and Azusa Pacific. A Cal State Fullerton alum,…
Former Texas State assistant Peejay Brun will be the new head coach at UT-Arlington, the school announced. Brun spent 2017 in a single-season stint at Texas State, her second tenure at the school in the last decade. Prior to her most recent time at Texas State, Brun spent two seasons at Hawaii-Hilo, where she collected sixty-three wins over the pair of years. In addition to her time at Texas State and Hawaii-Hilo, Brun’s coaching resume also includes stops at Cal State-Dominguez Hills and Siena College, the latter as head coach. She served eight years as an assistant coach at Texas…
Following on the heels of head coach Clint Myers’ abrupt retirement earlier this week, a new explosive story from Tom Junod and Paula Lavigne of ESPN has sent shockwaves through the sport. With a headline that reached the ESPN television BottomLine and sat as a recommended story on the network’s website, the investigative report detailed allegations from former players, including one, Alexa Nemeth, who filed a Title IX complaint against the school. Nemeth was cut from the Tigers’ roster following the 2017 season. A legal representative for Nemeth, a freshman who redshirted during the 2017 season, sent a 14-page letter to Auburn…