Brittney Williams has been named the new head coach at Southern, the school announced on Thursday. Williams spent the last two years as head coach at East Ascension High School and previously coached at Zachary High School; both schools are in the Baton Rouge area. “We are excited to have Brittney Williams lead our softball program,” Southern athletic director Roman Banks said in a school statement. “Her experience playing and coaching the game at different levels are the foundation of her coaching pedigree. With being local she will help play a key role in recruiting and bringing in the community.…
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The SEC on Thursday announced the week-by-week conference schedule for the 2022 season. Conference play will begin on March 11 and will run through May 8. Each of the league’s thirteen teams plays eight series’ against conference opponents. The weekly Saturday-Sunday-Monday series’, which will include televised primetime games on Monday night, will be designated at a later point. Florida will host the 2022 SEC tournament, which is scheduled for May 10-14. The full weekly conference schedule appears below. March 11-13Alabama at LSUTexas A&M at AuburnMississippi State at FloridaGeorgia at South CarolinaTennessee at Missouri March 18-20Kentucky at AlabamaArkansas at TennesseeSouth Carolina…
When an assistant coaching position opened late in the year at Maryland, the Terps had an impressive number of possibilities to turn to but one name stood out. Emerald Doria was uniquely familiar with head coach Mark Montgomery’s coaching style and after two years as a Division 3 coach, she was ready and willing to reunite with her former boss. Doria spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons as head coach at Southwestern University, a Division 3 school in Texas. She guided the program through a pandemic-shortened season and still felt the effects of the pandemic during her second year. About…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER Hampton has hired Monique White as the program’s new head coach. White spent the last three years as an assistant coach at Georgetown. In 2019, she helped guide the program to a 14-35 overall showing with a 6-13 conference record. A year later, the Hoyas were 8-15 when the 2020 season abruptly ended. The team did not play during the 2021 campaign. Prior to her tenure at Georgetown, White spent an extended tenure as an assistant coach at D2 Embry-Riddle in Florida. Her coaching resume also includes a single-season stint on staff at Oakland…
Every female athlete at BYU will have the opportunity to take advantage of a new NIL deal offered by a tech company with ties to the school. SmartyStreets CEO Jonathan Oliver is an alumnus of BYU and was the one to make the announcement of the new NIL opportunity to the school’s female athletes. As part of the NIL deal, every female athlete at BYU will be compensated up to $6,000 each for social media posts promoting the company and for participating in various company events and activities. The BYU softball team accounts for 23 of more than reportedly 300…
Not many people can say that they have branches on two different SEC coaching trees, but Brittany Gray is one who can. During her playing career at Georgia, Gray was coached by legendary coach Lu Harris-Champer, and helped lead the Bulldogs to the Women’s College World Series in 2016 and 2018. After her playing career ended, Gray spent two seasons on staff at Missouri, serving as a graduate manager under Larissa Anderson. She was part of a pair of history-making squads during her time in Columbia, including the 2020 Tigers team that turned heads with a hot start and…
LSU junior infielder Taylor Tidwell is set to miss the 2022 season following shoulder surgery. According to a lengthy social media post on her Instagram account, Tidwell had labrum surgery on her left shoulder and will rehab the injury through the coming year. “It saddens me to know I won’t be able to physically be a part of softball this year,” Tidwell wrote as part of her post. “But I’m okay. Because this year I will accomplish much more important things than any stat or athletic achievement could give me… I will be a student, teammate, sister, daughter, friend, girlfriend,…
Southwestern University has named Alexis Lynn as head coach. The Division III program announced the move late Monday; Lynn takes the program’s reins from Emerald Doria, who was hired as an assistant coach at Maryland last month. “We’re delighted to have a coach of this caliber leading our softball program,” Southwestern athletic director Glenn Schwab said in a school statement. “We were impressed with the work she did at Schreiner and feel she makes a great addition to our staff.” Lynn spent the last two seasons as head coach at fellow D3 school Schreiner University. She led the Mountaineers to…
Two college teammates and a dream of coaching together at their alma mater. Sounds almost like the start of a feel-good movie plot, doesn’t it? Add in a climax of the pair realizing that dream fifteen years later and it’s almost as if the story has been ripped from the desk of a Hallmark Channel scribe. When Kristina Thorson and Chelsea Spencer were teammates at Cal in the early 2000s, Spencer knew even then that her dream job was to be the head coach of the Golden Bears and she had it planned out on who she would hire as…
Former Washington superstar Sis Bates has signed an endorsement deal with DeMarini. “I am SO SO excited to announce my partnership with [DeMarini],” Bates wrote on Instagram. “From such a young age I fell in love with these products and have used them ever since! Excited for what’s to come.” Bates is currently playing for Athletes Unlimited in her first professional venture. With two games remaining in Week 4 of the AU season, Bates ranks 14th overall on the unique player points list. A 3-time All-American during her playing career at Washington, Bates was named the PAC-12 Defensive Player of…