Jen Petteys is joining the coaching staff at UNC-Wilmington, sources confirmed to JWOS.
Petteys spent the 2020 season as the volunteer assistant at North Carolina State, having joined the Wolfpack in the fall of 2019. She served as the team’s first base coach and worked with the outfielders and hitters.
Prior to joining the Wolfpack staff, Petteys spent seven years as the head coach at York College of Pennsylvania, where she collected a 153-144-2 overall record. During her final four seasons with the program, Petteys averaged more than 26 wins a season and coached thirteen all-conference honorees in a four-year period.
In addition to her lengthy collegiate head coaching stint, Petteys also spent two summers as a head coach in the American Softball Assocation professional league in Alabama. During her own playing career near the turn of the century, Petteys set the St. John Fisher program record for career hits and on-base percentage, and was inducted into the Division III school’s Hall of Fame in 2006.
At UNC-Wilmington, Petteys joins a program that finished the abbreviated 2020 season with a 7-16 overall record. The Seahawks recorded a team batting average of .251 and a cumulative on-base percentage of .343 during the shortened year.
