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University of SC Beaufort

Bluffton, SC 29909
Division 1 South Carolina Southeast
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Codee Yeske

Following a three-year stint at NCAA Division I and Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) member Austin Peay, Codee Yeske was named USCB’s next head softball coach on Monday, July 26, 2021. Yeske will be the fourth Sand Shark head coach in program history.


Codee Yeske (pronounced Cody YES-key) just concluded her third season as the Austin Peay assistant coach where she oversaw hitters and outfielders.


At APSU, she helped the Governors to a 71-50 overall record and a 38-17 OVC mark. She guided the Governors to several offensive improvements including, batting average, hits, runs, RBIs, doubles, home runs and slugging percentage (while decreasing total team strikeouts). In 2019, APSU set single-season team records in home runs, slugging percentage, hits, doubles and on-base percentage.


While on the coaching staff at Austin Peay, Yeske coached seven All-OVC, one NFCA Central Region First Team, Four NFCA Central Region Third Team and seven OVC Player of the Week honorees.


Yeske came to Austin Peay after serving on the coaching staff of Kristy Norton at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, following a year as associate head coach for the Carolina Mojo 14U club team. In addition to her coaching responsibilities, Yeske completed administrative tasks, including travel, budget and fundraising.


Prior to her time with the club team, Yeske spent eight months as associate head coach for the Carolina Elite 14U club squad and worked with the team’s outfielders and hitters.


Yeske competed on the USA Baseball Women’s National Team as part of the 36-member Trial Team in 2015 and 2016. She earned a gold medal at the Pan-American Qualifying Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.


Collegiately, she played her sophomore through senior years at the University of South Carolina, after beginning her college career at Presbyterian.


In her three seasons with the Gamecocks, the team posted an overall record of 93-79, which included back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Regionals (Austin Regional, 2013), (Tallahassee Regional, 2014).


Yeske earned Southeastern Conference Player of the Week honors (5/5/14), SEC Academic Honor Roll (Spring 2014), and she holds the distinction of scoring the first South Carolina run and hitting the first USC home run at Carolina Stadium at Beckham Field (3/15/13). She also hit the first grand slam by a South Carolina player at the stadium (4/24/13).


At Presbyterian in 2011, she helped lead the Blue Hose to a 28-20-1 overall record. She was selected Big South Conference Player of the Week on May 9 and named First Team All-Big South Conference.


Yeske graduated from South Carolina with a bachelor’s in hotel and restaurant tournament (concentration in hospitality management) and most recently earned her master’s in leadership and organizational administration (concentration in strategic leadership).

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Alison Owen

Alison Owen joined the USCB softball coaching staff as the pitching coach in August of 2021.


In her first season at Georgia Tech, Owen brought Tech’s ERA from 4.82 in 2017 to 2.74 in 2018. She also reduced the number of walks given up by more than half. She coached pitcher Emily Anderson to an all-ACC recognition. In 2019 she helped the team to its first ACC tournament win and first 30+ win season since 2012.


Prior to her arrival at GT, Owen served as an assistant coach for the Akron Racers, a team in the National Pro Fastpitch. During her coaching stint with the Racers, she prepared scouting reports for the pitching staff prior to series and assisted with the development of the lineup. Owen also pitched for the team for three seasons from 2014-16.


Before joining the Racers coaching staff, Owen was an assistant coach at East Mississippi Community College. She worked with a pitching staff that led the team to back-to-back postseason berths. She also worked to place the players in four-year programs.


Owen earned her Master’s degree in Kinesiology from Mississippi State, where she played for two seasons. Despite only playing in Starkville for two seasons, Owen finished her career as the program’s all-time leader in almost every pitching record including strikeouts (473), strikeouts looking (102), lowest opponent batting average (.193), fewest walks allowed per seven innings (1.05) and most strikeouts per seven innings (8.83). She helped carry Mississippi State to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances.

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