TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER In a time when some schools add three or four transfers each year, Carol Hutchins has stayed committed to a recruiting strategy that has worked well for her for the better part of four decades. She’s stayed true blue, you might even say. Under Hutchins’ guidance, Michigan doesn’t play the transfer game that has become so popular in today’s softball world. Mass arrivals out of the transfer portal simply aren’t a thing for the softball program in Ann Arbor. The Wolverines’ coaching staff is smart and experienced though, and if an impact player fits…
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TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Syracuse assistant coach Mike Steuerwald has been hired as head coach at Gaston College, JWOS has confirmed. Steuerwald will be tasked with building the Gaston softball program from the ground up, as the team will compete for the first time ever in 2022. The junior college initiated their inaugural athletics program last winter. A coaching veteran, Steuerwald spent the last two seasons on staff at Syracuse. Prior to his tenure with the Orange, he was the associate head coach at Utah Valley and also served stints as an assistant at Elon, Cuesta College, and…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Former Oklahoma pitcher Alanna Thiede is transferring to UNLV, the school announced on social media on Tuesday. “Here’s to a new chapter. I couldn’t be more excited!” Thiede added in an Instagram post of her own. Thiede was one of six members of Oklahoma’s 2021 national championship team to enter the portal after the Sooners clinched the Women’s College World Series title in early June. Thiede entered the portal on June 18th, and is the fourth member of that group to commit to a new school. During the 2021 season, Thiede collected a 4.35…
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TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Adrienne Clark has been hired as the next head coach at Hofstra, the school announced on Tuesday evening. Clark, a program alumnus, spent the last three years on staff at Purdue, primarily working with the Boilermakers’ defense. During the 2021 season, the Boilermakers finished fourth in the Big 10 in fielding eleventh in the league’s standings at season’s end. Prior to her tenure at Purdue, Clark spent four seasons on staff at UConn where she worked with the Huskies’ pitchers and catchers. Her resume also includes a 3-year stint as an assistant at Hofstra…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Palm Beach Atlantic head coach Jessica Cooley has resigned from her position, the school announced over the weekend. Cooley spent the last two seasons as the head coach at PBA, earning a 32-23 overall record in a pair of years that were each individually marked by effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the 2021 season, the Sailfish posted a 17-12 overall record with a 13-9 mark in Sunshine State conference play. According to a PBA news release, Cooley is making a family move to Indiana. Her husband, Michael Brown, was formerly on staff within…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Former Arkansas pitcher Autumn Storms took to social media on Monday to respond to some apparent intrigue about injuries that she endured during the 2021 season. Storms played her “super senior” season with the Razorbacks in ’21, collecting a 1.42 ERA in 83.2 innings of work. While opposing hitters hit just .199 against her on the year, Storms missed some time throughout the year and recorded fewer innings than anticipated. Entering the season, she was expected to form a top-level 1-2 punch with Mary Haff in the circle, but that knockout punch only appeared…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Tony Baldwin took a while to secure a coaching staff, but once he made his decisions, that staff shaped up in impressive fashion. As scooped by JWOS over the weekend and officially announced by Georgia on Monday, the Bulldogs are adding J.T. D’Amico and Chelsea Wilkinson as assistant coaches. D’Amico, the program’s top assistant, is a defensive guru, while Wilkinson will be the pitching coach in her return to her alma mater. Pulling D’Amico from Washington was quite a coup for Baldwin. A longtime Husky assistant, D’Amico spent fourteen years in Seattle and helped…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Three softball legends returned to the diamond this weekend, but about the only thing that stayed the same was the bright yellow ball. Jennie Finch, Natasha Watley, and Lauren Chamberlain all participated in the Major League Baseball All-Star Celebrity Softball Game, as part of the MLB All-Star Festivities in Denver, Colorado. The game took place on Sunday night at Denver’s Coors Field and aired on television on Monday evening. For the fifth consecutive year, Finch was listed as a team captain. She went up against Colorado Rockies legend Todd Helton in that category, and…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Incarnate Word has named Kim Dean as the program’s new head coach. Dean spent the last four seasons as the head coach at Georgia Southern, collecting an overall record of 82-89 during her tenure leading the Eagles. She guided the GSU program to a 32-47 mark in Sun Belt conference play. During the 2021 season, Georgia Southern posted a 17-26 overall record. Against Florida on two separate occasions early in the season, the Eagles held late-game leads over the top-5 Gators, only to be beaten at the proverbial 11th hour. The Eagles were eliminated…