Jennifer McFalls

Current position
Title	Head Coach
Team	Kansas
Conference	Big 12
Record	133–170 (.439)
Biographical details
Born	(1971-11-10)November 10, 1971 (age 53) Arlington, Texas, U.S.
Playing career
1991–1994	Texas A&M
2001	WPSL Gold
Position(s)	Shortstop
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1995–1997	Texas A&M (asst.)
1998	Oklahoma (asst.)
2003–2005	Hockaday School
2006–2009	Midlothian HS
2010–2018	Texas (asst.)
2015	Dallas Charge
2019–present	Kansas
Head coaching record
Overall	133–170 (.439)
Medal record Women'ssoftball Representingthe United States Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team competition

Jennifer Yvonne McFalls (born November 10, 1971) is an American, former collegiateAll-American, gold-medal winningOlympiansoftball player and currenthead coach originally fromGrand Prairie, Texas. She is head of theKansas Jayhawks softball. team^[1] She playedcollege softball atTexas A&M as autility player andshortstop.^[2] She then went on to representTeam USA, being named an Olympic alternate in 1996 and a member of the 2000 team that won gold. After her years playing softball McFalls decided to become a coach with her first position as the assistant coach at Texas A&M. Mcfalls continued to coach for many years with several different schools at many different competitive levels. She was the head coach of theNational Pro Fastpitch professional softball team, theDallas Charge fortheir inaugural season.^[3]

Born inArlington, Texas and raised inGrand Prairie,^[4][5] McFalls began to play softball at the early age of eight. She was first introduced to softball though her family, as many family members had encouraged her to play. As McFalls came of age, she moved on to more competitive leagues within the Dallas and Fort Worth area. She started to play for a team called the Everman Shadows. In high school, McFalls was a multisport athlete. She played volleyball, soccer, and basketball. Softball was not offered at her school, so she could not play during her high school career. Although McFalls did play in the summer on a select softball team, this is where she was first recruited by Bob Brock at A&M University at the age of 16. McFalls graduated fromSouth Grand Prairie High School in 1990.^[5]

AtTexas A&M University, McFalls started at shortstop forTexas A&M Aggies softball from 1991 to 1994.^[5] She graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in kinesiology in 1997. While there, McFalls was a major component on the women's softball team. McFalls was an All-American shortstop and led her team in batting average all four seasons during her career at Texas A&M. She also led her team in hits, total bases, and slugging percentage. McFalls was named Texas A&M's Female Athlete of the Year in 1994. She was also elected to the Texas A&M hall of Fame in 2001.^[6] While at Texas A&M she received the awards for All American 1993,^[7] and All- South Region 1st Team during the years of 1993 and 1994.^[8]

McFalls started out her Olympic career as the 1996 alternate soon after she became the world champion gold medal winner in 1998. In the following year, she was the Pan American Games winner. From 1994 to 2000, McFalls was a part of the U.S. National team. She played in several of the 2000 Olympic games. McFalls helped score the game winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning in the victory over Japan, winning 2–1.^[9] McFalls walked twice and scored two runs in the games overall.^[10]

McFalls first began her coaching career as an assistant coach for three seasons at Texas A&M from 1995 to 1997 and one season at the University of Oklahoma, in 1997–1998. After her seasons at the collegiate level, McFalls went on to become the fastpitch softball academy director at Power Alley in Grand Prairie, Texas from 2002 to 2003. Shortly afterward, McFalls took an assistant athletic director and head softball coach position at Hockday School in Dallas, Texas. She spent two years at the school, from 2003 to 2005. McFalls was then offered a position at Midlothian High School, inMidlothian, Texas, where she became the head coach and assistant athletic director, compiling a record of 139–48 and leading her team to five consecutive playoff appearances. During her time at Midlothian High School, she was also a part of the USA Softball selection committee from 2005 to 2010 and served as the assistant coach for Team USA at the 2010 Canadian Open Fast Pitch International Championship.

McFalls then started to coach forTexas in 2010, as an assistant coach under head coachConnie Clark.^[11] In 2015, she was hired as the head coach for theNational Pro Fastpitch team, theDallas Charge.^[12] Clark resigned following the 2018 season, and McFalls did not return to the coaching staff.^[13]

On August 22, 2018, McFalls was named head coach atKansas.^[14]

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• Jennifer McFalls atTeam USA (archived)
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