Parker Conrad gears up for a sixth season as the Bobcats' pitching coach.
The Winter Park, Florida, native is a former NCAA Division I pitcher and took over pitching duties for longtime associate head coach Bob Herrington after the 2021 season.
Jones has boasted a Top 20 ERA in the country in each of her five seasons, including a 2.38 ERA in 2024 which is the best in her tenure. The 2025 pitching staff struck out 399 combined hitters, sixth-most in NJCAA Division II. JC has been in the Top 10 now in five straight seasons in punch outs.
She has coached four NFCA First Team All-Americans and three NJCAA All-Americans in the circle in Madison Sawyer, Jayden Sawyer, Reanna Nieman, Nia Luckett and Holly Craft. Sawyer was the 2026 MACCC Pitcher of the Year, the Bobcats' first solo winner since Karli Perque in 2017.
Luckett ended her illustrious career as a three-time all-american with a school-record 501 career strikeouts and 50 wins.
Conrad began her softball career at Missouri and appeared in 19 games as a freshman. She pitched in 22 games her sophomore and junior seasons at Oklahoma, helping the Sooners to back-to-back Women's College World Series appearances, before ending her career at UAB.Â
In 126.2 career innings in the circle, Conrad was 8-7 overall with two saves and punched out 130 batters. She had 80 strikeouts in her senior year at UAB, second-most on the team, and was named to the Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll and C-USA Pitcher of the Week.
Prior to her collegiate journey, Conrad played high school ball at Winter Park. Beginning varsity play as a freshman, she helped guide the Wildcats to a district title and earned team MVP honors as a sophomore. A year later, she averaged 15 strikeouts per game as a junior.
Conrad graduated with a bachelor of science in sociology from UAB in the spring of 2021.
