Jones College

Former Jones College standout Tori Dew enters her third year leading the Bobcat softball program.

Dew was promoted to head coach on June 1, 2023 after five seasons as an assistant, including the final two as associate head coach.

The 2025 and 2024 NJCAA Region 23 Coach of the Year has managed the Bobcats to a 91-25 record in two seasons, consecutive NJCAA World Series trips and region titles and back-to-back MACCC runner-up finishes.

Jones was 52-10 overall and 21-5 in the MACCC last season and finished as national runner-up for a sixth time in program history. Dew's Bobcats also reached the No. 1 spot in the polls for the first time since 2019 and held the spot for a month.

Jones has consistently ranked in the Top 10 in the country in home runs, extra-base hits, runs scored and slugging percentage under Dew's guidance and former head coach Chris Robinson.   

The Bobcats hit 93 home runs last season, sixth-most in the country, after a school-record 97 the year prior. MACCC Player of the Year Makynlie Jones led the nation in RBIs (103) while her 26 homers was second in NJCAA Division II. Jayden Sawyer set a school-record with 29 long balls her freshman year.

Eight Bobcat hitters have garnered NFCA All-American honors in the past four seasons alone in Mak. Jones, Sawyer, Emily Mizelle (x2), Kat Smith, Nia Luckett, Lauren Lindsey (x2), Aaliyah Dixon and Lindsay Henson.

In a shortened 2020 season due to COVID-19, Jones was second in the country in home runs (43), sixth in doubles (43), seventh in RBIs (150) and hit .386 as a team. The 43 home runs were by 11 different players, with freshman Kristian Edwards' eight homers ranking third in the NJCAA.  

In her first season as an assistant with the Bobcats in 2019, Jones led the country in walks and was third in home runs and slugging percentage and fifth in runs scored.

Dew, who prepped at Quitman High School, was named the 2014 Dudley NJCAA Division II Player of the Year when she batted .602 with 20 home runs and a 1.111 slugging percentage. She was also an NJCAA Division II First Team All-American, named to the NJCAA Division II National Tournament Team and was an All-Region 23 selection.

As a sophomore in 2015, Dew hit .474 with 15 home runs and 59 RBIs with a .932 slugging percentage. She was named an NJCAA Division II Second Team All-American, All-Region 23 and participated in the Canadian Open International Fastpitch Tournament where she was named to the All-Tournament Team. 

Dew and former Jones teammate, Lauren Holifield, received NJCAA Marucci Elite Hitting Awards following the 2015 season.

Dew played her final two seasons at Southern Miss in 2016-17, starting in 110 games for the Eagles and helping them to a combined 57 wins in two seasons. She was a .302 lifetime hitter with 28 doubles, three home runs and 52 RBIs. 

Off the field, Dew was a Conference USA Academic Medalist, C-USA All-Academic Team and C-USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll recipient.