Rodney DeLong Softball Camps Coaching Staff

Assistant Coaches

Jamie Allred

Head Coach Rodney DeLong announced the hiring of Jamie Allred as the Mean Green’s Pitching Coach on June 13, 2018.

Allred is entering her fifth season as the Mean Green’s Pitching Coach.

With a limited number of arms in the pitching staff in 2022, Allred coached two of the best arms in the conference in freshman RHP Skylar Savage and LHP Ashley Peters. Both Peters and Savage finished in the top three in strikeouts in Conference USA. North Texas finished second in the conference in opposing batting average (.222), batters struck out looking (32), ERA (3.34), batters struck out (154), earned runs allowed (61), wins (17), walks allowed (48), and home runs allowed (14). Under Allred's instruction, Peters won two CUSA Pitcher of the Week awards in her first season in Denton and was selected to the Conference USA All-Tournament team. Savage was named to the conference All-Freshman team as she tied for the most saves in the country (7). Both pitchers were also selected to the Second-Team All-Conference team.

During her time in Denton, Allred has been responsible for helping produce some of the best pitching numbers in program history. Since joining the Mean Green softball program, Allred has helped mentor Hope Trautwein to single-season program bests in wins (22 in 2019) and saves (4 in 2019) as well as 290 strikeouts in 285.1 IP. Under Allred’s watch, Trautwein earned 2019 First Team All-Conference distinction as well as Preseason All-Conference and Preseason Pitcher of the Year distinction in 2020.

The Mean Green pitching staff posted the lowest opponent batting average (.212) and second-lowest team ERA (2.31) in program history in 2020. Allred also coached former walk-on Bailey Tindell from a 3.94 ERA to a 2.70 ERA from her freshman to sophomores year.

In 2020, Allred watched as Hope Trautwein set the single-game strikeout record in the program and Conference USA when she struck out 21 batters in a win at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi on February 21.

Allred’s coaching career began in 2018 when she joined DeLong’s staff as the Pitching Coach at Austin Peay. While at Peay, the Governors' staff ranked 13th in Division I in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.67) and posted the 32nd-best ERA (2.25) in the nation. Led by junior pitcher Morgan Rackel, who earned Third Team All-Region distinction and made program history as the first player to earn NFCA All-Region honors in Austin Peay softball history.

Rackel was also named The Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Year and earned First Team All-OVC, All-OVC Newcomers Team and All-OVC Tournament Team honors, after she finished the year in the top 50 nationally in ERA (1.41), strikeout-to-walk ratio (7.56), strikeouts (204) and wins (22).

Prior to her coaching career, Allred pitched for two season overseas. In 2017 she helped lead the Western Magpies (Auckland, New Zealand) to a National Championship after doing the same thing with the Therwill Flyers (Basel, Switzerland) in 2016.

A four-year letterwinner at McNeese State, Allred left as the program’s all-time leader in career wins (68), shutouts (16), single-season victories (27) and single-season shutouts (10) in 2014. In 2014, she was the named the Southland Conference Pitcher of the Year, First Team All-Southland, First Team All-Louisiana and Second Team All-South Region after posting a 1.57 ERA with 203 strikeouts. In 2014, She also became the sixth student-athlete in program history to earn Academic All-District honors.

During her final season with the Cowgirls in 2016, Allred led them to a school record 43 victories, earning 17 herself and helped earn the program’s first NCAA Tournament berth in six seasons.

Before McNeese, Allred was a four-year letterwinner and member of two district-champion teams at Hallsville high school and was twice named All-State. Allred was also named the District 13-4A Pitcher of the Year as a sophomore, and named the 14-4A district MVP and East Texas Pitcher of the Year as a junior.

The Hallsville, Texas native graduated from McNeese State in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in business management.

Jason Gwyn

Defending Conference USA champion North Texas softball and head coach Rodney DeLong announced on September 10,2021 the addition of new assistant coach Jason Gwyn.

“I feel very fortunate to bring Coach Gwyn into our program,” head coach Rodney DeLong said. “He brings a wealth of knowledge to our team and our staff. Not only is he a great coach, but he is also a great family man. The future of UNT softball is bright, and I am excited about what we are building. Jason is going to be a big part of that.”

In Gwyn's first season with North Texas, the Mean Green had a record-setting year. UNT set program highs in home runs (71), batting average (.290), slugging percentage (.512), runs (297), RBI (274), total bases (707), and sacrifice flies (17). The Mean Green won the second-most games in a season in program history with 37, despite having more than 10 games cancelled, and earned its first NCAA Regional appearance after winning its first Conference USA Tournament title. In its first NCAA Regional appearance, North Texas won its first two postseason wins in program history.

The Texas Tech graduate helped the Hebron High School softball team in Carrollton for five seasons as its head coach from 2017-21. Gwyn was previously the head coach at Little Elm High School for the 2016 season after a stint at Hebron as an assistant from 2011-15.

He returned to Denton for the first time since 2006 when he served for two seasons as an assistant at Texas Woman's University.

Prior to his time in high school athletics, Gwyn was the head coach of the Austrian National Team in 2008 when the team placed third in the European Championships. He also coached the junior national squad to a seventh-place finish and the local professional team to third in the Euro Cup.

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