| Jeff Aumend is in his fifth
season at the helm of the Yellowjacket program that he built from the
ground beginning in 2000. At MSU Billings, Aumend has again taken a
program from scratch and made it competitive in just a few years. The
Yellowjackets won 18 of their last 24 games, last year, to finish just
one game below .500 at 27-28. The 2004 season was full of highlights
as they led the Pacific West Conference in home runs and had six
players named all-conference with two of those also being named
all-region. A 53-92 overall record for the program is deceptive as
the Jackets have increased, progressively, from 2 wins in 2001 to 9
(2002), 15 (2003) and 27, last season.
Aumend, a native of Alliance, Ohio, started the NCAA Division II women's softball program
at Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1994 and served as
its first and only Head Women's Softball Coach until he moved to
Billings in September of 2000 to start the MSU Billings softball
program. In his seven years at Queens College, Aumend achieved a
155-132 record with a 100% graduation rate among his
student-athletes. In Aumend's first season at Queens College
(1993-94), the Royals posted a 26-17 record. More recently, in the
1997 season, the Royals went 32-13 and finished the season ranked
fourth in the South Atlantic Region. Aumend earned his 200th career
victory last season and has an eleven-year career record of 208-224.
A respected hitting coach, his 1998 team at Queens finished fourth in
the nation in team batting average at .372 and last year’s
MSU Billings finished 23rd in the nation home runs with 32.
MSU Billings competes in
the Pacific West Conference, which includes four schools in Hawaii and one in New Mexico. MSU Billings is the first four-year
institution in Montana to offer women's softball.
Aumend received a Bachelor
of Science degree in Communication Arts from Defiance
College (Ohio). He currently serves on the NCAA Division II “Top 25”
poll committee and is the former National Chairperson for
Education/Publications for the National Fastpitch Coaches Association
(NFCA). |
