Head coach Jamie Trachsel enters her fourth season at the helm of the Ole Miss softball program heading into the 2024 season. In just three years in Oxford, she has guided the Rebels to back-to-back-back NCAA Regional Finals appearances. In 2023, she became the fastest coach in Ole Miss Softball history to achieve her 100th victory, needing only 159 games to accomplish the feat.

The sixth head softball coach in Ole Miss history and the 2019 NFCA Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year, Trachsel has collected 11 conference regular-season and tournament championships, developed 48 all-conference honorees, and guided her teams to the NCAA Tournament in 10-of-12 seasons, including a trip to the 2019 Women's College World Series with the Golden Gophers.

Despite playing the sixth toughest schedule in the nation in 2023, Trachsel’s squad battled adversity and finished with a 32-28 record and an 8-16 mark in the SEC. The Rebels solidified their spot in the postseason after knocking off ranked opponents in conference play all season, earning a spot in the Salt Lake City Regional, where they went on to play in the Regional Final. 

Ole Miss opened the season in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, before returning stateside for three other non-conference tournaments, including a pair in Oxford. The Rebels began conference play where they would earn victories over No. 10 LSU, No. 19 Auburn, No. 15 Kentucky, No. 21 Texas A&M, No. 14 Florida and No. 14 Alabama, as well as take the series at Missouri. Trachsel also earned her 100th career victory at Ole Miss on April 9, becoming the fastest coach in program history to reach the milestone. Ole Miss earned a spot as the No. 11 seed in the SEC Tournament and went on to win its opening game for the second consecutive year. In the NCAA Tournament, the Rebels advanced to the Regional Final with a pair of wins over Baylor, including a shutout, but fell to No. 15 national seed and host Utah.

Freshman Jalia Lassiter earned NFCA All-South Region honors, grabbing a spot on the third team, while senior Tate Whitley was named to the SEC All-Defensive team. Whitley and senior Mya Stevenson also registered their 200th career hits nearly a week apart. Graduate transfer Savana Sikes tied for the team lead with 48 hits, while fifth-year senior Mikayla Allee put together the best offensive season of her career, posting a .288 average (third on the team) and 46 hits (18 more than her single-season high). The Rebels also saw success in the circle, with Aynslie Furbush and Catelyn Riley leading the way with nine and eight wins, respectively.
 
The 2022 campaign was one for the record books as Trachsel and Ole Miss got off to a blistering 21-4 start to the season, tied for the best record through 25 games in program history. The Rebels won 41 games on the year, the second most in a single season in school history. With a tough conference slate that featured three consecutive series against top-10 opponents, Ole Miss managed to pick up marquee wins over No. 9 Arkansas and No. 8 Kentucky. The Rebels got hot down the stretch, winning nine of their final 11 contests and taking series from No. 11 Tennessee and at No. 16 Georgia to close out the regular season and tie the program record with 38 regular season victories.
 
Ending the regular season with a 38-16 mark, Ole Miss cracked the top 25 in multiple polls and finished eighth in the SEC. The Rebels went on to win a game at the SEC Tournament for the first time since 2019 and secure the program’s sixth straight NCAA Regional bid, earning the No. 2 seed in the Los Angeles Regional. Despite dropping the opening game of the regional, they climbed back into the regional final with wins over Grand Canyon and LMU before falling to No. 5 UCLA.
 
Following a standout season, three Rebel outfielders in Tate Whitley, Abbey Latham and Bre Roper each earned NFCA All-Region honors. Whitley led the SEC in hits with 74 during the regular season, while Latham became the program’s all-time RBI leader in March. Roper shined as a graduate transfer, she ranked second on the team with a .364 batting average and 64 hits and 39 runs scored. Ole Miss also saw unparalleled success in the classroom, posting a 3.70 team GPA during the spring semester, the highest in program history.

Picked to finish dead last in the 2021 SEC Preseason Coaches Poll, Ole Miss exceeded all expectations in Trachsel's first campaign at the helm. The Rebs collected a 36-22 overall record, including a 12-12 mark in SEC play, good for an eighth place finish and the second most conference victories in program history. Ole Miss received its fifth-consecutive NCAA Tournament bid for its work, earning the No. 2 seed in the Tucson Regional. The Rebels made Oxford a fortress in Trachsel's inaugural season, posting a 24-3 home record, including the first-ever sweep of rival Mississippi State and a three-game sweep of No. 25 UCF.

Under Trachsel's guidance, four Rebels received SEC postseason honors, tied for the most in a single season in program history. Paige Smith was named to the newly minted SEC All-Newcomer Team, while rookies Blaise Biringer and Aynslie Furbush received a nod for the all-freshman squad. One of the most feared backstops in the country, Rebel catcher Autumn Gillespie was tabbed to the SEC All-Defense Team.
 
In her three-year stint with the Golden Gophers, Trachsel took over a program on the rise and kept the ascent going to the upper echelon of the softball world. After finishing off her inaugural season in Minneapolis with 41 wins, a Big Ten Tournament title, an appearance in the NCAA Seattle Regional Final and four All-Big Ten and NFCA All-Region honorees, Trachsel helmed the Gophers to their most prolific season in history in 2019.
 
Playing arguably the nation’s most challenging schedule, Minnesota racked up a 41-12 record during the regular season, setting the stage for a magical postseason run. The No. 8 national seeded Gophers ripped through the Regional and Super Regional rounds of the NCAA Tournament with five straight wins, including two apiece over SEC foes in No. 14 Georgia and No. 10 LSU. Minnesota then set sail for Oklahoma City, making its first trip to the Women’s College World Series in the NCAA era.
 
Five Gophers were named to the All-Big Ten and NFCA All-Region squads, respectively, following Trachsel’s second season at Minnesota, while Gopher ace Amber Fiser was named the Big Ten Pitcher of the Year and a First Team All-American.
 
Minnesota finished the season ranked No. 8 in both the USA Today/NFCA Top-25 Coaches Poll and the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top-25 Poll. The No. 8 ranking is the highest the Gophers have finished a season in either major poll. Minnesota also finished No. 7 in the NCAA RPI, which is not only the school’s highest RPI to finish a season, but the highest at any point in program history. For their efforts, Trachsel and her staff were named the NFCA Great Lakes All-Region Coaching Staff of the Year.
 
Ranked in the top 10 in five different preseason polls heading into 2020, Trachsel and the Gophers hit the ground running once again. Minnesota collected a 15-9-1 record prior to the cancelation of the remainder of the spring season due to the coronavirus, including ranked wins over No. 5 Florida State and No. 19 Missouri. Sophomore slugger Natalie DenHartog was tabbed a Shortened Season All-American by Softball America.
 
The Gophers also made history in the classroom under Trachsel. Their spring 2019 semester GPA of 3.63 was the highest in program history, while eleven different players notched 2019 Academic All-Big Ten honors. In total, Trachsel’s players have received 41 academic all-league honors.
 
Prior to taking over Minnesota, Trachsel spent one season in the Big XII as the head coach at Iowa State. She led the Cyclones to a fifth-place conference finish in 2017, garnering their highest league win total in eight years along with the best regular-season Big XII finish since 1994. Trachsel’s squad also saw improvement in the circle, dropping its team era by nearly two runs per game to the lowest since 2010. Two Cyclones earned NFCA All-Region First Team honors in Kelsey McFarland and Sami Williams, the latter selected to the All-Big XII First Team as well, one of only three freshmen league-wide to earn that award.
 
Trachsel arrived in Ames following 14 seasons at North Dakota State, including the final six as co-head coach. In those half-dozen seasons, NDSU compiled a 221-109 overall record (.670), a 98-19 mark (.838) in the Summit League and advanced to NCAA Regional play five times. The Bison won their conference regular-season championship and the tournament championship five times each with Trachsel as co-head coach.
 
NDSU won at least 30 games – including a school-record 45 in 2015 when it climbed as high as 41st in the NCAA Percentage Ratings Index (RPI) – for 10 straight seasons. The Bison advanced to the NCAA Regionals in seven of Trachsel’s final eight seasons in Fargo. In 2009, NDSU pulled a shocking upset, claiming the Norman Regional over perennial power Oklahoma.
 
Her tenure with NDSU began with two seasons (2002-04) as a graduate assistant, followed by three (2005-07) as an assistant coach, three (2008-10) as associate head coach and the last six (2011-16) as co-head coach.
 
During her stay in Fargo, Trachsel coached five All-Americans, 25 All-Region players and 59 All-Conference student athletes, including five Summit League Players of the Year and five Summit League Pitchers of the Year. The Minnesota native was also a part of staffs recognized as NFCA Midwest Region Coaching Staff of the Year twice in 2009 and 2015.
 
As a player, Trachsel competed for NCAA Division II program St. Cloud State in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She led the Huskies to three straight NCAA Division II tournament appearances and one conference title. Trachsel made the 1999 NCAA Division II All-Region Tournament Team and received All-Academic honors from the NFCA twice. SCSU won 127 games during her career.
 
As a prep athlete, Trachsel earned 17 letters across four sports at Duluth (Minn.) Central High School. She is also a nine-time national champion in racquetball (1988-93 and 2003-05).
 
Trachsel earned a bachelor’s degree in sports management (minors in coaching and human relations) from St. Cloud State in 2001. She added a Master of Education degree in athletics administration from North Dakota State in 2006.