The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Softball tabs former USA standout McFalls as assistant coach
07.22.2010 | Softball
July 22, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas -- Former USA Softball standout and Olympian Jennifer McFalls has been named assistant softball coach at Texas, head coach Connie Clark announced Thursday.
McFalls joins the Texas staff after spending the last five seasons as the head coach and assistant athletics director at Midlothian High School in Midlothian, Texas. During her tenure at MHS she posted a 139-48 record and led her team to five-straight playoff appearances.
In addition to her duties at Midlothian, McFalls has been active with USA Softball, serving on the USA Softball selection committee from 2005-10 and recently serving as assistant coach for Team USA at the 2010 Canadian Open Fast Pitch International Championship where she coached current Longhorn Blaire Luna.
"Jennifer will be a great addition to our coaching staff," Clark said. "Her diverse experience as an Olympic athlete, coach, administrator, Team USA selection committee member and analyst is invaluable."
Prior to her time at Midlothian, McFalls was head softball coach and assistant athletics director at the Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas from 2003-05. In 2002 and 2003, she was the fastpitch softball academy director at Power Alley in Grand Prairie, Texas.
McFalls has had two previous stints as a collegiate assistant coach, serving one season at the University of Oklahoma from 1997-98 and three seasons at Texas A&M University from 1995-97. Following her tenure at OU, she spent five years working in softball clinics, television, personal training and motivational speaking.
"Jennifer is networked very well within the state of Texas as well as on the national scene," Clark said. "We look forward to her sharing her energy, knowledge and love for the game, as well as helping us win championships."
As a player, McFalls won a gold medal as a member of Team USA at the 2000 Olympics where she scored the game-winning run in the gold medal game. She was a member of the U.S. National Team from 1994-2000, helping her teams to a gold medal in the 1999 Pan American Games and a gold medal at the 1998 World Championships.
McFalls played collegiately for Texas A&M where she earned first-team All-America honors as a shortstop in 1993 and led the Aggies in batting average, hits, total bases and slugging percentage in all four seasons of her career. In 1994 she was named the school's Female Athlete of the Year and in 2001 she was inducted into the Texas A&M Hall of Fame. McFalls graduated from A&M in 1997 with a degree in kinesiology.
