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Nicholls has elected not to renew the contract of head Angel Santiago, the school announced on Monday. Santiago spent the last ten years as the Colonels’ head coach, collecting a 255-229 overall record and a 130-103 mark in Southland Conference play. The Colonels earned the league’s regular-season championship in 2018, their first under Santiago’s guidance and also the first such title in more than two decades. A two-time Southland Coach of the Year, Santiago earned the award in 2016 and 2018 and guided the Colonels to three consecutive runner-up finishes in the conference tournament in 2017, ’18, and ’19. During…
Paige Smith has resigned as the head coach of Seton Hall. Smith’s departure was announced on Monday morning; she spent the last nine years as the Pirates’ program leader. Under Smith’s guidance, the Pirates collected a 165-247-1 overall record and a 61-99 mark in Big East conference play. She led the program to the conference tournament twice in her first three seasons at the helm. The 2019 season was the program’s best under her leadership, when the Pirates went 24-24 overall and 10-9 in conference. “We’d like to thank Paige for all her hard work and dedication to the softball program…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Sure, the New England Patriots have won six Super Bowl rings in the new millennium. And sure, the Boston Red Sox have won three additional World Series after breaking the Curse of the Bambino with their legendary title in 2004. But if you want to talk about a real dynasty in the making, look no further than the Boston University softball diamond. In 2015, BU’s softball program finished the year ten games below .500 and with just 17 wins to their credit. That summer, the Terriers made a coaching change and ultimately hired an…
After the regular season featured largely conference-only schedules, the MAAC also changed the postseason setup for the conference championship. The quarterfinals became best-of-three series’ while the semifinals and finals are double-elimination bracket play. With the championship formatting changes, the postseason started a week early for MAAC teams, as the quarterfinal round took place this past weekend. Matchups around the league for the first round of the postseason included #1-seed Monmouth taking on #8 Marist; #2 Canisius against #7 Rider; #3-seed Iona vs. #6 Manhattan; and #4 Fairfield up against #5 Siena. Marist pulled off the biggest upset of the weekend,…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Athletes Unlimited’s inaugural college draft is set to take place on Monday night. The draft, which will see a dozen active college seniors selected to play during the league’s second season, is set to be streamed live on Facebook. AU Season 2 will include a player pool of 60 athletes; players drafted on Monday night will join 37 players who have already been signed for the season which will stretch from August 29 to September 27. Players drafted on Monday night will be invited to join the league, but will not be able to…
Ashley Balazs has resigned as head coach at Pittsburg State, the school announced on Saturday. Balazs spent the last four seasons as the Gorillas’ head coach, collecting a 74-106 overall record and a 37-45 mark in MIAA conference play. In 2021, Balazs’ squad posted a 15-29 overall record with a 9-17 conference result. Pittsburg State finished its season with a loss to Northwest Missouri on May 1 and did not make the MIAA tournament that was played this past weekend. Prior to her tenure at Pittsburg State, Balazs spent three seasons on staff at Division I Evansville. She was part…
Following a vote from the school’s Board of Regents, the University of Hartford will officially seek to reclassify from Division I to Division II within the next five years. The official vote was held on Thursday, and followed a school-commissioned review that was published in mid-April. The realignment was said to be necessary due to budget issues and declining enrollment that was exacerbated by COVID-19 effects, according to various media reports. In January of 2022, Hartford will formally apply for reclassification to Division III. The NCAA would act on that request one month later, and Hartford anticipates active membership in…
Jazmyn Rollin has entered the NCAA’s transfer portal, sources confirmed to JWOS on Friday morning. Rollin’s name first appeared in the portal on May 5th, which was Wednesday. A hard-hitting infielder, Rollin turned heads with her hot start to the 2020 season. She finished the abbreviated year with a .364 batting average and led the Tigers in home runs with seven. She also led the team with fourteen stolen bases during the shortened year, almost half of the entire team’s total of 29 swiped bags. In 2021, Rollin has played sparingly and owns just a .150 batting average with no…
Few softball broadcasters have been as busy as Francesca Enea this season. Already the standard color commentator for games at her alma mater, the University of Florida, Enea also added a new role in 2021 as the lead analyst for UCF softball games with Eric Lopez on ESPN+. She has called games steadily for both teams, including Florida’s matchup against Team USA earlier this year. A resident of the Orlando area, Enea doesn’t have to go far from home to call the UCF matchups, though she makes a round-trip nearing four hours in length when she’s in the Gators’ broadcast…