Jessica Allister

Jessica Lynne Allister, born on 7 October 1982, is an American softball coach and former catcher who is the head coach at Stanford. She played college softball at Stanford and earned second-team All-American honors in her senior season of 2004, then spent two years as a professional with the New England Riptide of National Pro Fastpitch before starting a coaching career as an assistant at Georgia, Stanford and Oregon. From 2011 to 2017 she was head coach at Minnesota, winning 290 games and reaching five straight NCAA Tournaments, and she was named Big Ten Coach of the Year after a 56-5 season in 2017. She then returned to Stanford, where she won Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors in her second season.