Charlotte Softball

Charlotte
Softball
AIMEE
DeVOS
HEAD COACH
17th Season
(Drake, 1993)
In 2010, Aimee DeVos completed her 16th
season as head coach and 16th with the 49ers
softball program. After serving as the interim
head coach in 1995, DeVos was named head
coach for the 1996 season. The Niners won 40 games in 2010, third-most in
program history, and DeVos celebrated her 400th-career victory.
AIMEE
In her tenure, DeVos has made great strides with the program on and off the
field. She has recorded Charlotte’s largest, third-largest and fourth-largest win
totals, while also putting together nine 20-win seasons. She is the first 49er
head coach to surpass the 200, 300 and 400 career-win marks. DeVos collected
her 400th win in a 4-2 topping of Elon on April 22, 2010. She achieved her
300th career victory in a 4-2 conference decision against George Washington at
the 2007 Atlantic 10 Tournament. Just as important as her success on the field,
DeVos has also graduated 100 percent of her players since taking over as head
coach.
DeVOS
She recorded her most successful season in 2006, leading the 49ers to
numerous school records, including the most wins in a season (42), as well as
the program’s first-ever conference champi¬onship when Charlotte went 17-3 in their first season in the A-10, capturing the regular season title. In
addition to setting the single-season records for hits, batting average, homers and RBI, her 2006 team included a record six all-conference selections,
including four first-team honorees. Three of those players repeated in 2007 to claim conference nods.
Last year, Charlotte won 40 or more games for the third time in program history, and its fifth straight 30-plus win season. The 49ers went 40-18
overall, and posted a 15-5 mark in A-10 action. Emily Jeffrey shattered her season strikeout record with 342 and pushed her career strikeout standard
to 782 whiffs. She matched her win total from 2009, going 23-11. Whitney Williams stole 40 bases, breaking the single-season school record, and
Serena Smith set the 49er record in career RBIs, finishing with 126. Keri Palma earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors, while Smith and Jeffrey
both made the second team. Smith and Jeffrey also were named NFCA All-Mid-Atlantic Region, while Briana Gwaltney tallied conference allfreshman
accolades. Smith and Williams garnered Academic All-Atlantic 10 honors on the season as well.
During the 2009 season, Charlotte posted a 33-16 record including a 14-4 mark in Atlantic 10 play. The Niners’ conference record earned them the
Atlantic 10 Con¬ference Runner-up title missing out on the conference crown by only two games. The season saw several program records fall with
Emily Jeffery fanning a former program-high 294 batters on her way to a 23-win season, the third highest total in Niner history. On the offensive end,
Sarah Malene moved into first place with 150 career runs scored and Cee Brooks drove in 113 RBI, second-most in school history. Serena Smith lead
Charlotte in hits for the second-consecutive season with 62, while adding a team high .363 batting average. Three 49ers claimed First Team All-
Atlantic 10 honors with Malene, Jeffery and Smith picking up the awards.
In the 2008 season, DeVos put together a 35-win season, the fourth-highest win total in program history, which included a trip to the championship
game of the A-10 Tournament, hosted at Charlotte’s own D.L. Phillips Sports Complex where the Niners took on No. 20 Massachusetts. That season,
the 49ers claimed a victory over then-No. 15 North Carolina at D.L. Phillips. In the circle, Katy Hackett set the then single-season record with 176
strikeouts, while Emily Jeffery put up 146 strikeouts on her way to 18 wins. On the offensive end, all-conference selection Sarah Malene shattered
her 2006 single-season record with 46 runs, while Serena Smith re-wrote the record books with 71 hits. Four 49ers were named to the all-tournament
team, while Malene and freshman Whitney Williams earned all-conference nods.
A four-year letterwinner at Drake, the Yorkville, Ill., native boasts a healthy softball resume from a successful program. DeVos graduated from Drake
in 1993 with a degree in business marketing. She was a 1993 All-Missouri Valley Conference player after leading the Bulldogs to the MVC regular
season and tourna¬ment championships and a spot in the 1993 National Invitation¬al Championship. A shortstop and outfielder, DeVos still ranks
among Drake’s all-time leaders in home runs.
In addition to her head coaching duties, DeVos conducts sev¬eral summer and winter softball camps and clinics. In the summer of 2004, she coached
a select group of players to play the U.S. Olympic team in Charlotte. DeVos is also a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and a
member of the NFCA Head Coaches Committee.
DeVos and her husband, Dan, have two sons, Nolan and JJ Her husband is the Director of the Annual Fund for the Charlotte 49ers Athletic
Foundation.
Head
Coach