The 2024 softball season included some stellar coaching performances. Here are a dozen head coaches whose work brought them deserved attention and notoriety.

The SEC on Wednesday released the conference softball schedule for the 2025 season.League play will begin on March 7th. The 2025 season is the first to include a 15-member SEC following the additions of Oklahoma and Texas. Teams will continue past practice of playing eight teams in conference play, but now will miss six teams in the league during the regular season.The 2025 SEC conference […]

The dawn of a new school year means fall ball is on the horizon. Fall workouts are already underway for many schools with fall games beginning in early September and stretching all the way through mid-November.D1Softball is keeping track of every fall exhibition game in one convenient place. Want to catch some softball during the cooler months? Here, you’ll find every game including at least […]

McKenzie Wagoner enjoyed a successful playing career at Liberty and North Texas. Just weeks after she took off her cleats for the last time, she began her college coaching career.

Pittsburgh relieved athletic director Heather Lyke of her duties on Monday.

Lyke had been the only sitting P4 AD who was a former college softball player.

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Rhode Island has hired Mike Coutts as the program’s new head coach.Coutts most recently spent three seasons as the head coach at D2 Colorado School of Mines. He posted a 70-79 overall record during his tenure, including a 65-53 showing in conference play. In a two-year span, he engineered a 13-win turnaround from his first season to his 3rd.“I am thrilled to have Mike Coutts […]

UC Davis senior associate athletic director Heather Hunter has been named to the NCAA Division 1 Softball Committee.Hunter will serve a four-year term on the committee, beginning with the 2025 season and stretching through the 2028 campaign. She is one of two representatives from the West region.An alumnus of the UC Davis softball program, Hunter has served on the Aggies’ athletic administration staff since April […]

Whatever the importance of the moment, whatever the size of the stage, Ashley Trierweiler always seems to deliver.Through four years at Santa Clara, a graduate senior season at Grand Canyon, and her first summer as a professional softball player, Trierweiler has gone from a steady player with little name recognition to a well-known star, the mark of consistency at every level.From the first moment that […]

Texas Tech has hired Kayla Kowalik as an assistant coach.Kowalik graduated from Kentucky in 2023 and spent the 2024 season on the Wildcats’ support staff. She was an All-American during her playing career at UK and set program records for career hits, triples, runs scored, and total bases.In addition to her collegiate playing career, Kowalik played for Team USA in the Japan All-Star Series and […]

Ole Miss head coach Jamie Trachsel has signed a contract extension. The new deal will keep her at the helm of the Rebels through the 2028 season.In her four years leading the program, Trachsel owns a 140-96 overall record and a 39-57 record in SEC play. Ole Miss reached the NCAA tournament in each of her four seasons at the helm. During the 2024 season, […]

Missouri has signed head coach Larissa Anderson to a contract extension.The new deal, which adds two years to Anderson’s previous contract, will extend through the 2028 season.During her 6-season tenure in Columbia, Anderson owns a 217-115 overal record with five NCAA tournament appearances and two Super Regional berths. The Tigers have made two appearances in the SEC tournament championship game within the last three seasons.“We […]

Rhode Island head coach Whitney Goldstein has resigned her post. She spent three years leading the Rams.

Alex Storako is returning to the OKC Spark for her third professional season, re-signing with the franchise for the 2025 campaign.

Twice, in the span of just months, Elizabeth Hightower thought her softball playing career was over.And each time, just when she was coming to terms with never putting on a uniform again, a phone call brought her back to the diamond and rekindled the love for the game that had been within her from a young age.After her college career at Florida ended following the […]

Iona has hired Carla Campagna as the program’s new head coach.Campagna spent six seasons as the head coach at D2 Adelphi, posting a 194-81 overall record with a 96-18 showing in conference play. She led the Panthers to five NCAA tournament berths during her tenure, including a run to the Division 2 World Series in 2022.She earned a pair of conference Coach of the Year […]

North Alabama and head coach Ashley Cozart have agreed to a contract extension.The new pact will keep Cozart at the helm of the Lions’ program through the 2028 season. She enters her 12th season at the helm in 2025.During her tenure at UNA, Cozart owns a 386-173-1 overall record. She led the Lions to the Division II National Championship in 2016 and guided the program […]

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James Madison has hired Maddie Penta as the program’s new pitching coach.Penta completed her college playing career at Auburn with the 2024 season. A two-time All-American and the 2023 SEC Pitcher of the Year, Penta posted 76 career wins, setting an Auburn program record in that category. She also notched a career 1.79 ERA in more than 700 innings of work.While at Auburn, Penta spent […]

Jacksonville State has promoted Julie Boland to the head coaching role. She spent the last 23 years on the program’s staff.

Jocelyn Alo and Jayda Coleman will be back in OKC Spark colors for the 2025 summer season.

An All-American at Oregon and longtime pro, Gwen Svekis announced her plans to retire at the conclusion of the Athletes Unlimited season.

Campbell has hired Emily Carosone as the program’s new head coach.Carosone spent the last several days on staff at Troy after being named the Trojans’ associate head coach on August 9th. She is also currently working as a facilitator for Athletes Unlimited.Prior to her brief stint as a Trojan, Carosone spent a total of six seasons on staff at Auburn, her alma mater, in two […]

Georgia has hired Mike Davenport as an assistant coach.Davenport spent more than two decades as the head coach at North Georgia, leading the Nighthawks to a pair of Division II national championships, in 2015 and 2023. He earned more than 1,000 wins at the helm of the UNG program, eclipsing the 50-win mark in nine separate seasons. During his tenure, he led the Nighthawks to […]

For the third consecutive week, Amanda Lorenz is a team captain in Athletes Unlimited. The Florida legend sits atop the leaderboard and leads the gold-uniformed squad.Lorenz, Sashel Palacios, Lexi Kilfoyl, and Megan Faraimo are the team captains for Week 4, the penultimate week in the AU summer season.After some planned and unplanned schedule changes in Week 3 – originally scheduled to play two games at […]

Alcorn State has named Brianna Billie as the program’s new head coach. She spent the last two seasons as head coach at Benedict College in South Carolina.

Cal State Fullerton has promoted Gina Oaks Garcia to head coach. A two-time All-American during her playing career as a Titan, Garcia spent the 2024 season on staff and previously served as head coach at Claremont Mudd Scripps College.

LSU assistant coach Howard Dobson is stepping away from his position.Dobson, who spent the last 13 years on staff in Baton Rouge, is leaving coaching to spend more time with his family. His son, Trip, is an incoming freshman on the Ragin Cajun baseball team this fall.During his 13-year tenure at LSU, Dobson was part of the coaching staff that led the Tigers to four […]

The Lopes of Grand Canyon are destined for the West Coast Conference. While the realignment won’t have any effect on the 2025 softball season, its effects on a larger scale are plentiful.