TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Kim Dean has stepped down as the Georgia Southern head coach, the school announced on Tuesday evening. Dean spent the past fourth seasons as the Eagles’ head coach, collecting an 82-89 overall record during her tenure. The program also posted a 32-47 mark against Sun Belt conference opponents. The Eagles posted a 17-26 overall record during the 2021 season, with a 9-14 conference showing. Early in the year, the Eagles twice had a late lead on top-5 Florida and were beaten in the second game by a walk-off hit from the Gators. Playing rival…
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Arizona State’s hosted regional will be the first to kick off this postseason, when Virginia Tech and BYU face off on Thursday evening. Arizona State will also face off against Southern Illinois in the first round; the regional includes the conference champions from the West Coast Conference and the Missouri Valley, while Virginia Tech and ASU each earned at-large bids thanks to their bodies of work through the year. The regional features one of the most balanced groups of teams in any part of the bracket; all four teams finished the season in the top 70 in RPI, and three…
Incarnate Word and head coach Joe DiPietro have parted ways, JWOS has confirmed. As of Tuesday evening, DiPietro is no longer listed on the UIW website, and additionally confirmed his departure on social media. DiPietro spent four seasons as the head coach at Incarnate Word after being hired in the summer of 2017. He posted an overall record of 47-117 during his tenure, as well as a 20-62 mark against Southland Conference opponents. The 2021 season was arguably the program’s finest under DiPietro’s tenure, as the Cardinals went 16-27 overall on the year, with a 9-18 conference mark. The program…
Georgia State will not renew the contract of head coach Roger Kincaid, the school announced on Tuesday. Kincaid spent eleven seasons as the head coach of the Panthers, and collected a 304-274 overall record during his tenure. He shepherded the program through the transition from the Colonial Athletic Association to the Sun Belt Conference. During the 2021 season, Georgia State collected a 16-30 overall record and a 3-18 mark in Sun Belt play. The Panthers finished 10th in the conference, but won a play-in game to open the conference tournament and advance to the double-elimination portion of the bracket. In…
North Texas pitcher Hope Trautwein has entered the NCAA’s transfer portal, sources confirmed to JWOS on Tuesday. Through the NCAA’s extended eligibility waiver, Trautwein has one year of eligibility remaining. She is a graduate transfer. During her four years at North Texas, Trautwein established herself as one of the most consistent pitchers at a non-Power 5 school. She owns a career 2.05 ERA and an opponent’s batting average of .197. Trautwein also boasts 693 career strikeouts and 61 career victories. In February, Trautwein put together what is believed to be the first immaculate complete game in NCAA softball history. In…
Rhode Island has elected not to renew the contract of head coach Bridget Hurlman, the school announced. Hurlman spent six seasons as the Rams’ head coach, collecting a 61-167 overall record during her tenure. The Rams also posted a 22-76 record in conference play under her guidance, including an 8-15 mark during their finest league showing in 2017. In a statement, Rhode Island athletic director Thorr Bjorn said, “”I am thankful for Bridget’s contributions to the softball program, and I wish her all the best moving forward. I am appreciative of the positive impacts Bridget had. These decisions are never…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Back in 2006, a young right-handed pitcher from Morrison, Illinois donned a Northern Iowa uniform for the first time. Monica Wright started 26 games for the Panthers, led the team in strikeouts and in wins. Even though her inaugural year of college softball was a successful one, other factors led Wright to make the decision to transfer to another school. She ultimately landed at Indiana, where she went on to a career that saw her name finish in the top ten in four statistical categories in Hoosier program lore. As she was finishing her…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Maggie Livreri Huffaker has stepped down as the head coach at Boise State, the school announced on Monday. Huffaker spent the last three seasons as the Broncos’ head coach and led the program to the NCAA tournament as an at-large selection in 2019; it was the first time in program history that Boise State had reached the tournament without earning the conference’s automatic qualifier. Huffaker’s squad earned a win over Stanford in the opening round of that same NCAA tournament. “”Being the head coach at Boise State has been a complete honor and privilege,”…
The Pac-12 isn’t happy. The Big 10 isn’t happy. The Sun Belt is overjoyed, and the ASun is finally fulfilled. All in all, a normal Selection Sunday post-mortem. See above for the full bracket. UCLA, Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida, and Oklahoma State were generally seen as the accepted first five seeds, and that was exactly how things shook out. Arkansas, LSU, and Missouri earned the 6th, 7th, and 8th seeds, respectively. All eight of those teams will not only host regionals, but will likely host Super regionals so long as they reach that round. In at #9 overall was Tennessee. The…
Courtney Oliver has resigned as East Carolina head coach, the school announced on Saturday morning. Oliver spent six seasons leading the ECU program, and collected a 125-166 overall record during her tenure. The Pirates also collected a 29-73 showing in conference play. The abbreviated 2020 season was the only time that the Pirates finished above the .500 mark during Oliver’s tenure, though her 6-year stint did see her preside over ECU’s first AAC tournament victory in 2017. In 2021, the Pirates finished the season with a 16-33 overall record and a 7-17 showing in conference play. The conference win total…