Tech’s softball team will enter the 2017-2018 season with the thrills of mystery and anticipation. A new coaching staff and young team, including a relatively large group of freshmen, will try to bring the team back to prominence. The 2017 season marked the end of former head coach Shelly Hoerner’s time with the Jackets, as Athletic Director Stansbury announced the decision to choose a new head coach for the team in the upcoming season: Aileen Morales.
Morales, a former student-athlete with the softball team at Tech who had previously acted as the Jackets’ assistant coach after her college career, played and coached during a span in which the team reached four Atlantic Coast Conference championships, four ACC Tournament titles, eight NCAA regionals, and an NCAA Super Regional.