TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Boise State is set to add Allie Walljasper as their new assistant coach, sources confirmed to JWOS on Monday. Walljasper will serve as the Broncos’ pitching coach, per sources. Her hiring will finalize the inaugural coaching staff under first-year head coach Justin Shults. An assistant coach at North Dakota State for the last two seasons, Walljasper guided the Bison pitching staff to a 4.12 team ERA and 234 strikeouts on the year in more than 300 innings of work as a unit. In 2020, the squad owned an identical 4.12 ERA prior to the…
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TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER New entrants into the transfer portal have slowed down considerably over the last week, an understandable happening after July 1st. Through the NCAA’s one-time transfer exemption, 7/1 is the deadline for players to notify their current teams of an intent to transfer while still maintaining immediate eligibility at their eventual new schools. Last week was busy on another front, however, with a number of players committing to their new homes. Some moves were officially announced by the schools, while others were made public by the players themselves on social media. Texas pitcher Ryleigh White…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER The Georgia coaching staff has its final full-time member. J.T. D’Amico will be named the Bulldogs’ top assistant, sources confirmed to JWOS. D’Amico’s hiring follows the addition of Chelsea Wilkinson as pitching coach, which JWOS exclusively reported on on Saturday. D’Amico, primarily a defensive coach who also served as the first base coach at Washington, spent fourteen years on the Huskies’ staff. Under his guidance, the Huskies’ defense excelled and set a program-record for fewest errors in a single season in 2021. D’Amico also tutored five PAC-12 Defensive Players of the Year during his…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Georgia head coach Tony Baldwin has found his pitching coach. Program alumnus Chelsea Wilkinson will serve as Baldwin’s second assistant and work with the team’s pitching staff, sources confirmed to JWOS. Wilkinson most recently had agreed to become the pitching coach for the Ragin Cajuns. Earlier this summer, JWOS exclusively reported that Wilkinson had agreed to become the pitching coach at Louisiana-Lafayette. Wilkinson informally joined the Ragin Cajuns’ staff this summer, though an official announcement was never made. She elected to depart Lafayette without having coached a game in order to accept the role…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER UPDATE 7/15/21: NC State officially announced DeVries’ hiring on Thursday. ORIGINAL ARTICLE:North Carolina State has hired Ketarah DeVries as the Wolfpack’s pitching coach, sources confirmed to JWOS on Saturday. DeVries spent the last two seasons as the pitching coach at Seton Hall, guiding the Pirates’ pitching staff to a 4.94 ERA and 161 strikeouts in 205.2 innings of work during the 2021 season. The team’s pitching staff notched a 1.75 WHIP and a strikeout/walk ratio just shy of 2/1. Prior to her tenure at Seton Hall, DeVries spent two years on staff at Bucknell…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Softball greats Lauren Chamberlain and Natasha Watley have been announced as two of the participants in the 2021 MLB All-Star Celebrity Softball Game. Chamberlain and Watley were two of the dozen celebrities who were among the second wave of famous participants in the game that was announced earlier this week. Held annually, the Game includes Major League Baseball legends as well as entertainment stars and athletes from other sports. Announcing her participation on her own social media pages, Chamberlain on Friday wrote, “This could potentially end up being the best day of my life”…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER The Texas Longhorns have added a new arm to their stable, with southpaw Estelle Czech committing to the Horns on Friday. “I’m hooked,” Czech wrote on Instagram, captioning photos of herself in a Texas uniform. A former North Carolina State pitcher, she entered the transfer portal on May 16th. A native of Downers Grove, Illinois, Czech has three years of eligibility remaining after spending her true freshman season at NC State in 2021. During her true freshman campaign, Czech recorded an overall record of 4-6, with a 3.14 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 73.2…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER UPDATE: On Sunday evening, Langenfeld posted a message on her Twitter account, officially confirming our initial report from Friday. In her note, Langenfeld wrote, “After a lot of thought and prayer, I have decided to resign from my position as Assistant Coach for the Oregon Softball team. This decision did not come easy and has nothing to do with the Oregon Softball program. Softball will always be a big part of my life but at this point, I have decided to change career paths. I have decided to become a high school math teacher…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER George Washington has hired Chrissy Schoonmaker as the program’s new head coach, the school announced on Thursday. Schoonmaker spent the 2021 season on staff at Harvard, but never coached a game with the Crimson after the Ivy League’s decision to severely limit opportunities to play this spring. In addition to her role with the Harvard softball program, Schoonmaker served as a color commentator for SEC Network+ broadcasts of Gamecock softball games. She traveled to Columbia for games, calling live-streamed matchups throughout the year. Prior to joining the Harvard staff, Schoonmaker served in an administrative…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER “This was about me, my happiness, my mental health, and trying to find a place that I really felt like I could thrive.” With that thought, Ally Shipman put to bed any doubts about her motives for transferring from Tennessee. JWOS spoke with Shipman in an exclusive 1-on-1 conversation on Wednesday night after she announced her intentions to transfer and play at Alabama. After entering the portal in late June, Shipman said on Wednesday that a desire to be present for her team during the season meant that thoughts on entering the transfer portal…