TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Samford head coach Mandy Burford-Johnson has resigned her position, the school announced late Monday. Burfor- Johnson spent a decade as the Bulldogs’ head coach, leading the program to 237 wins during her tenure and moving atop the coaching wins list to become the program’s all-time winningest leader, a mark that she set during the 2019 season. She led the program to the NCAA tournament in 2016 as the SoCon champions. Also named the SoCon Coach of the Year in 2016, Burford-Johnson’s squad reached the 40-win plateau that year and won both…
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TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Chris Steiner is no longer the head coach at Florida International (FIU), sources confirmed to JWOS early Tuesday. Steiner spent the last two seasons as the Panthers’ head coach, collecting a 22-35 overall record and a 6-13 conference record. The conference record during her brief tenure in Miami came during the 2021 campaign, when she assembled a 14-26 overall record that included wins over Florida Gulf Coast and New Mexico State. Prior to her tenure at FIU, Steiner spent five seasons as the head coach at Alabama State. Under her guidance,…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Justin Shults will be named the next head coach at Boise State, sources confirmed to JWOS on Tuesday morning. Shults spent the last three seasons as the hitting coach at Oregon, and helped lead the Ducks to a top-10 ranking and a pair of wins over eventual PAC-12 champion UCLA during the 2021 season. Prior to his tenure with the Ducks, Shults spent two seasons on staff at Fresno State and an additional pair of seasons at Miami Ohio. A former collegiate baseball player at UC Riverside, Shults was an All-American…
Four Oklahoma Sooners entered the transfer portal on Monday afternoon, sources confirmed to JWOS. Three of the players – Kinsey Koeltzow, Brooke Vestal, Paige Knight – played sparingly for the Sooners during the 2021 season. The fourth, Eliyah Flores, departed the program before the season, as JWOS exclusively reported at the time. Vestal, a former top recruit from the Firecrackers organization and Canyon High School, was an Academic All-Big 12 honoree in 2020 and played in eight games as a redshirt freshman that year. During the 2021 season, she threw 7.1 innings across seven appearances and gave up three hits…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Former James Madison pitcher and Women’s College World Series breakout star Odicci Alexander has signed a professional contract with the USSSA Pride, JWOS has confirmed. Alexander finished the 2021 season with an 18-3 record and a 1.71 ERA. Alexander led the team’s pitching staff during a regular season run that included just one loss, before embarking on a postseason run that made history. In the postseason, Alexander posted an 8-3 record and collected 94 strikeouts in 75.5 innings of work. She threw every inning of the Super Regionals and during the Dukes’ semifinal run…
Lu Harris-Champer’s retirement leaves the Bulldogs looking for a new head coach freshly off a surprise berth in the Women’s College World Series. Harris-Champer led the Bulldogs to the WCWS five times during her 20-year tenure and was a three-time SEC Coach of the Year. The Bulldogs are moving quickly in their search for a new head coach; athletic director Josh Brooks, in his current role just since January, pulled off quite a coup over the weekend with the hiring of Caryl Smith Gilbert as the Bulldogs’ track and field coach. That move was announced less than one day after…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Wisconsin announced an extension of softball coach Yvette Healy’s contract on Friday. Healy’s contract will now run through the 2026 season; she was one of nine head coaches in the Badger athletic department that had their contracts extended en masse by a vote of the UW Athletic Board on Friday. The 2021 season marked Healy’s eleventh at the helm of the Badgers’ program. She led the Badgers to three straight NCAA tournament appearances from 2017-19 and helmed the squad to a 9th-place finish during the tumultuous 2021 campaign that included conference-only play. Under Healy’s…
Shanon Hays is the new head coach at Grand Canyon, the school announced on Friday. Hays spent the last three years as the head coach at Division II Oklahoma Christian, where he led the program to a 99-30 record. Prior to his tenure at Oklahoma Christian, Hays’ decorated resume includes a 2-year tenure as the head coach at Colorado Christian and five years as the head coach at Texas Tech. He began the softball program at Lubbock Christian and led the team to an NAIA National Championship in its inaugural season. In a dozen seasons as a head coach, Hays…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER The 2021 Women’s College World Series set attendance records in every session played over the past week in Oklahoma City. The record number were buoyed in large part by the addition of upper deck grandstand seating, which were utilized for the WCWS for the first time in 2021. The upper deck was added following the 2019 championship tournament, but went unused for collegiate purposes for two years following the cancellation of the 2020 Division 1 postseason. Official capacity of the revitalized Hall of Fame Stadium is 12,300. The tournament topped that number on two…
Tracey Lynch has been hired as the head coach at College of Charleston, the school announced this week. Lynch spent the last six seasons as the pitching coach at UNC Greensboro, and helped lead the Spartans to the NCAA tournament this year. During her time at UNCG, the Spartans played in the NCAA tournament twice and won four regular season titles in the SoCon. An assistant at College of Charleston in 2013, Lynch was part of the Cougars’ coaching staff when the team played in the SoCon, prior to their realignment to the Colonial Athletic Association. In addition to her…