2017 College Softball Head Coaching Changes
On Monday, Montana announced that Melanie Meuchel who was serving as interim Head Coach would be the permanent Head Coach. Meuchel takes over for Jamie Pinkerton who left Montana for Iowa State to replace Jamie Trachsel who went to Minnesota to replace Jessica Allister who left Minnesota to go to Stanford. Got all that? You think that was had to keep up with How about the following.
Appalachian State who replaced Janice Savage with Shelly Hoerner who was replaced at Georgia Tech by Aileen Morales who comes over from Radford and was replaced by Hope Creasy. That was just part of 35 Head Coaching changes for a variety of reasons this off-season. Here is a list of all the Head Coaching changes to date in one of the most active off-seasons in recent memory.
School | Former Coach | New Coach |
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Appalachian St. | Janice | Savage |
Auburn | Clint Myers | Mickey Dean |
Austin Peay | Shane Showalter | Rodney DeLong |
Bucknell | Courtnay Foster | Joey Lye |
Buffalo | Trena Prater | Mike Roberts |
Colgate | Melissa Finley | Marissa Lamison-Myers |
Fairleigh Dickinson | KJ Kelly | Chris Foye |
Georgia Southern | Annie Smith | Kim Dean |
Georgia Tech | Shelly Hoerner | Aileen Morales |
Hartford | Sarah Kalka | Angie Churchill |
Incarnate Word | Amanda Gamboa | Joe DiPietro |
Indiana | Michelle Gardner | Shonda Stanton |
Indiana State | Tori Magner | Mike Perniciaro |
IUPUI | Heather Tarter | Elisabeth Beurne |
Iowa State | Jamie Trachsel | Jamie Pinkerton |
Jacksonville | Jennifer Steele | Erica Ayers |
James Madison | Mickey Dean | Loren LaPorte |
La Salle | Ron Shoemaker | Brooke Darreff |
Lafayette | Jexx Varner | Caitlyn de la Haba |
Marshall | Shonda Stanton | Jennifer Steele |
Minnesota | Jessica Allister | Jamie Trachsel |
Montana | Jamie Pinkerton | Melanie Meuchel |
New Mexico | Erica Beach | Dr. Paula Congleton |
Norfolk State | Heidi Cavallo | James Inzana |
Oakland | Connie Miner | Lauren Cognigni |
Radford | Aileen Morales | Hope Creasy |
Rider | Jaclyn Timbo-Gabelt | Timko-Gabelt |
Santa Clara | Lisa Mize | Lisa Dodd |
Stanford | Rachel Hanson | Jessica Allister |
Tennessee State | Tom Opdenbrouw | Andrea Browning |
UAB | Marla Townsend | (Interim) Amanda Ellis |
UNLV | Lisa Dodd | Kristie Fox |
UT Arlington | Kristie Fox | Peejay Brun |
Wagner | Angie Churchill | Lindsey Ubrun |
Wright State | Justine Wichman | Laura Matthews |
You can listen to six of the Head Coaches that changed places this off-season talk about what led them to the new place as they appeared on In The Circle on Fastpitch News podcast.
Shonda Stanton talked going from Marshall to Indiana – July 31
Jamie Trachsel talked going from Iowa State to Minnesota- August 28
Kristie Fox talked going from UT-Arlington to UNLV- September 1
Jen Steele talked going from Jacksonville to Marshall- October 5th
Jamie Pinkerton talked going from Montana to Iowa State- October 5th
Jessica Allister talked going from Minnesota to Stanford – October 10th