Lauren Pittman returns for her fifth season as an assistant women's basketball coach at Jones College.
It's Pittman's second stint at Jones. She served as an assistant coach to Missy Bilderback for the 2015-16 season, helping Jones to a 19-7 record and an appearance in both the conference and region tournaments.
The Bobcats have won three straight NJCAA Region 23 titles since her return to the sidelines and back-to-back MACCC Championships. Jones advanced to its first-ever NJCAA Final Four last season, knocking off three nationally-ranked teams in the process.
Jones is 88-20 in Pittman's four seasons overall, including a perfect regular season and No. 1 ranking in 2020-21.
Pittman, who prides herself on recruiting and preparing players for the next level, has assisted with 15 four-year signings over the past three seasons alone.
Pittman spent three seasons at her alma mater, Southern Miss, as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator on Joye Lee-McNelis' staff. The Lady Eagles won 56 games in that span, including a 23-11 record and berth in the C-USA Championship Game in 2017.
Pittman was a coach and educator at Petal High School from 2012-15, where she was responsible for the strength and conditioning program and assisted the head coach with practices, games, fundraisers, camps and clinics. She was also a volunteer coach with Southern Exposure, Inc. for two years from 2011-13.
Pittman signed with Southern Miss and was a member of the Conference USA All-Freshman Team in 2006-07. She was a member of the Lady Eagle basketball team from 2006-11 and received her bachelor's degree in sports coaching from USM with a minor in biological sciences.
She is a 2006 graduate of Wayne County High School and is the daughter of Frank and Priscilla Pittman. She has two brothers, Blake and Scott, who are both JC accounting graduates.
