Coker University

Coker College Athletics
300 East College Avenue Hartsville, SC 29550

Division 2 South Carolina Southeast

Private Small Competitive team

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Brittany Bennett

In her first year as Head Coach at Coker, Bennett picked up a total of 22 wins including six in South Atlantic Conference play. During the 2022-23 season, Bennett coached one South Atlantic Conference All Conference Second Team player, Ariana Fair.

Brittany Bennett was named Coker's head softball coach on June 15, 2022.

Bennett comes to Coker after spending the last nine years at fellow Division II UNC Pembroke, where she amassed over 200 career wins. Under Bennett, the Braves advanced to the Peach Belt Conference tournament semifinals in 2021, while she was named PBC Coach of the Year. In Bennett’s tenure, UNCP softball has landed two on the Schutt Sports/National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division II National Player of the Year Top 25 list, while having one as a finalist for the award. UNCP has also boasted two NFCA All-Americans, 24 All-Conference players and 19 conference Players of the Week. UNCP also achieved a team grade point average of at least 3.2 every year under Bennett. Prior to UNC Pembroke, Bennet served as an assistant coach at Georgia College and State University (2011-13), Lynn University (2008-11), UNC Wilmington (2007-08), University of Mount Olive (2006-07) and Southern Arkansas University (2004-06).

Bennett has also served on numerous national committees during her coaching career. She served as the Southeast region representative on the NFCA All-American Committee (2018-21), the NCAA Head Coaches Committee(2016-19), was the special advisor to the NCAA Head Coaches Committee (2019-22), served on the Peach Belt Conference Mentorship Committee (2020-21), the NFCA Ethics Committee (2015), NFCA Regional Advisory Committee (2021-22), the NFCA Mentoring Program (2019-22) and Women Leader in Sports (2021-Present).

Bennett holds a bachelor’s of arts in business administration and computer information systems from Southern Arkansas, as well as a master’s of science from Southern Arkansas in kinesiology.

Bennett has two sons, and currently resides in Laurinburg.

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Haley Jones

In her first year as Assistant Coach at Coker, Jones helped pick up a total of 22 wins including six in South Atlantic Conference play. During the 2022-23 season, Jones helped coached one South Atlantic Conference All Conference Second Team player, Ariana Fair.

Haley Jones joined the Coker University Softball staff on Sept. 26, 2022.

Jones previously worked as a Graduate Assistant Coach at Division III Misericordia University in Dallas, Pa., assisting with all facets of the softball program. Under her assistance, the program achieved a 3.6 team grade point average. In addition while Jones was on staff, Misericordia touted the 2021 MAC Freedom Rookie of the Year, the 2022 MAC Freedom Pitcher of the Year, 11 All-Conference selections including eight First Team selections and six NFCA All-Region selections. Misericordia was also the 2021 MAC Freedom Runner-Up with a 24-6 record, and also the 2022 MAC Freedom Regular Season Champion at 27-9. Jones oversaw the pitching staff at Misericordia, coaching the Cougar pitching staff to a 2.30 team earned run average, including Alexa McHugh, whose 0.76 ERA was ranked No. 3 natioanally. McHugh would go on to earn 2021 MAC Freedom Pitcher of the Year and NFCA First Team All-Region honors.

In addition to Misericordia, Jones worked as a hitting instructor at Maximum Impact Sports Training.

Jones played collegiate softball at Georgian Court University where she was a member of the historic 2019 team that won a program record 46 games and the 2019 CACC regular season championship, with the team going to the NCAA Division II regionals for the first time in five seasons. She was a member of the GCU Honors program and the CACC All-Academic Team, and also earned the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award.

Jones holds a Master's of Business Administrtaion with a concentration in Management from Misericordia (2022) and a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from Georgian Court (2020).