Former Jones College standout Tori Dew was promoted to head coach on June 1, 2023 after five seasons as an assistant, including the final two as associate head coach.
Dew, the fourth head coach in the softball program's history, will continue to work with hitters and infielders in her new role.
Jones has consistently ranked in the Top 10 in the country in home runs, extra-base hits, runs scored and slugging percentage under Dew's guidance and former head coach Chris Robinson.
Six Bobcat hitters have garnered NFCA All-American honors in the past two seasons alone in Lauren Lindsey (twice), Kristian Edwards, Tyesha Cole, Aaliyah Dixon and Lindsay Henson.
In a shortened 2020 season due to COVID-19, Jones was second in the country in home runs (43), sixth in doubles (43), seventh in RBIs (150) and hit .386 as a team. The 43 home runs were by 11 different players, with freshman Kristian Edwards' eight homers ranking third in the NJCAA.
In her first season with the Bobcats in 2019, Jones led the country in walks and was third in home runs and slugging percentage and fifth in runs scored.
Dew, who prepped at Quitman High School, was named the 2014 Dudley NJCAA Division II Player of the Year when she batted .602 with 20 home runs and a 1.111 slugging percentage. She was also an NJCAA Division II First Team All-American, named to the NJCAA Division II National Tournament Team and was an All-Region 23 selection.
As a sophomore in 2015, Dew hit .474 with 15 home runs and 59 RBIs with a .932 slugging percentage. She was named an NJCAA Division II Second Team All-American, All-Region 23 and participated in the Canadian Open International Fastpitch Tournament where she was named to the All-Tournament Team.
Dew and former Jones teammate, Lauren Holifield, received NJCAA Marucci Elite Hitting Awards following the 2015 season.
Dew played at Southern Miss in 2016-17, starting in 110 games for the Eagles and helping them to a combined 57 wins in two seasons. She was a .302 lifetime hitter with 28 doubles, three home runs and 52 RBIs.
Off the field, Dew was a Conference USA Academic Medalist, C-USA All-Academic Team and C-USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll recipient.
Parker Conrad just completed her second season as the Bobcats' pitching coach.
The Winter Park, Fla., native is a former Division I pitcher and took over pitching duties for longtime associate head coach Bob Herrington after the 2021 season.
Jones has boasted a Top 12 ERA in the country in each of her two seasons, a 3.17 mark in 2022 and 2.44 ERA in 2023. The pitching staff has also struck out the seventh-most hitters in the country in back-to-back seasons with nearly 800 combined.
She has tutored a pair of NFCA First Team All-Americans in the circle in Nia Luckett, the school's career strikeout leader, and Southern Miss signee Holly Craft.
Luckett ended her illustrious career as a three-time all-american with a school-record 501 career strikeouts.
Conrad began her softball career at the University of Missouri and appeared in 19 games as a freshman. She pitched in 22 games her sophomore and junior seasons at Oklahoma, helping the Sooners to back-to-back Women's College World Series appearances, before ending her career at UAB.
In 126.2 career innings in the circle, Conrad was 8-7 overall with two saves and punched out 130 batters. She had 80 strikeouts in her senior year at UAB, second-most on the team, and was named to the Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll and C-USA Pitcher of the Week.
Prior to her collegiate journey, Conrad played high school ball at Winter Park. Beginning varsity play as a freshman, she helped guide the Wildcats to a district title and earned team MVP honors as a sophomore. A year later, she averaged 15 strikeouts per game as a junior.
Conrad graduated with a bachelor of science in sociology from UAB in the spring of 2021.
Drew Fiala enters his first season as an assistant coach with the Bobcats in 2023-24.
Fiala spent the past two seasons as the head coach at Raleigh High School where the Lions were 38-19-1 and won Region 6-3A both years.
His first full-time coaching job was as an assistant coach at his high school alma mater, West Jones, in 2021.
Fiala was a manager for the Bobcat softball team for the 2016-17 seasons and was a graduate assistant for Jones in 2020 where he helped then-assistant coach Tori Dew with hitters.
He moved on to Southern Miss where he was a manager during the 2018-19 seasons and got his degree in 2020 in sports coaching education.
While serving as a manager at both schools, Fiala caught bullpens, hit fungo for the coaches, worked with hitters and helped with field maintenance.