Texas Woman's University

Texas Woman's University Athletics
 1600 N Bell Ave - Pioneer Hall - Ste 220 Denton, TX 76201
Division 2 Texas South
Public Medium Competitive team
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Gay McNutt

Gay McNutt a veteran head coach with 36 years of collegiate coaching experience was named the Pioneers head softball coach in June 2022.


McNutt becomes the seventh head coach of the Pioneers softball program since the program was reinstated in 1997.


McNutt has spent 22 years as a Division I head coach, earning five conference coach of the year awards along the way. McNutt was named Southland Conference Coach of the Year four times during her tenure at Stephen F. Austin (1998, 1999, 2000 and 2004) and was named Conference USA Coach of the Year in 2010 during her tenure at Southern Mississippi.


With 628 career wins as a head coach, McNutt joins the Pioneers after spending the last four seasons at outgoing Lone Star Conference member Texas A&M-Commerce, spending the 2022 campaign as the interim head coach. In her lone season at the helm of the Lions program, McNutt led TAMUC to a 43-15 overall record, a 22-8 mark in Lone Star Conference play, and the first Lone Star Conference tournament championship in program history after the Lions swept through the LSC championship.


Prior to taking the interim head coach position, McNutt had served the previous two seasons as Associate Head Coach at TAMUC. During her tenure in Commerce, the Lions pitching staff set single-season records for lowest team ERA, lowest opponent batting average, fewest walks allowed, most strikeouts per seven innings and most shutouts.


McNutt spent nine seasons as the head coach at Stephen F. Austin, leading the Lumberjacks to five Southland Conference postseason tournaments and the 2008 tournament title – the first in program history. Prior to SFA, McNutt spent seven seasons at Southern Miss, where she captured a pair of Conference USA titles. She remains the program's all-time leader in wins.


She began her head coaching career at Northwestern State, spending six seasons and capturing three consecutive Southland Conference championships in her final three seasons. She has led her teams to eight overall conference titles and five NCAA regional championships.


McNutt has also served as an assistant coach on the staff at North Texas, Alvin Community College, the University of Houston, and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (then Southwestern Louisiana), where she received her bachelor of arts in behavioral science.


Prior to her coaching career, McNutt was an all-American at Texas A&M, earning induction into the Texas A&M Hall of Fame in 2011. She was a four-year starter behind the plate for the Aggies, earning all-America honors as a senior, and all-region honors all four years. A two-year captain, she helped lead the Aggies to three consecutive national championship games, winning the AIAW Women's College World Series in 1982 and the NCAA Women's College World Series in 1983, finishing as national runner-up in 1984.

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Bri Sims

Bri Sims, an experienced collegiate softball player and champion assistant coach, was named the assistant coach for the Pioneers in June 2022.


Sims spent the last season as the assistant softball coach alongside Head Coach Gay McNutt at Texas A&M-Commerce, helping lead the Lions to a 43-15 overall record, including a 22-8 mark in conference play, and a Lone Star Conference tournament title. She had previously served as a graduate assistant on the Lions' staff.


A native of Rowlett, Sims began her coaching career after a successful four-year collegiate career, playing her first two seasons and earning first-team all-Western Athletic Conference honors at UMKC before concluding her playing career in 2019 at TAMUC, where she won second-team all-Lone Star Conference honors. She played in 104 games with 96 starts in her two-year career at TAMUC, finishing her career ranked second in program history in putouts, third in home runs, and fifth in RBIs.

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