California State University-Northridge Softball

Jodie Cox enters her first season as an assistant coach and pitching coach to the CSUN Softball team in 2024-25. Cox brings to CSUN extensive coaching experi...

Jaymi Steward enters her first season as assistant coach to the CSUN Softball team in 2024-25. A former standout on the diamond at CSUN, Steward previously spent the 2023 season on Morgan's coaching staff as the program's director of player development. With Steward in the dugout, the Matadors returned to the postseason for the first time in eight seasons with their appearance in the National Invitational Softball Championship. Steward also helped the Matadors finish third in the Big West with a 19-8 league record to go with an 28-24 overall mark. Steward, a Redlands native, was a five-year letterwinner and two-time all-conference outfielder with CSUN from 2018-22. As a senior, Steward led CSUN in a host of categories including batting average (.306), home runs (6), RBI (27), runs scored (32), doubles (10), slugging percentage (.471), on-base percentage (.389) and stolen bases (18). She garnered All-Big West First Team honors in 2022, becoming the first Matador in three seasons to earn that distinction, while she was also an honorable mention in 2021. Over her career, Steward totaled 129 hits, 88 runs scored, 75 RBI and 19 homers in 180 career games, which included 141 starts. Steward graduated from CSUN in 2022 with a degree in Criminology and Justice Studies.

Juju Jimenez is entering her first season with CSUN as an assistant coach after spending one year as an assistant for the North Dakota State University softball program in 2025. Jimenez joined NDSU after wrapping up her playing career at the University of Utah in 2024. Jimenez was a two-time NFCA All-Region selection and two-time All-Pac 12 honoree at Utah after transferring to the Utes from the University of Michigan, where she was also an All-Big Ten performer. In a five-year career, the Fontana, California native started 235 games at Michigan and Utah, primarily as an infielder. Jimenez had a careering .290 batting average with a .356 on-base percentage and a .490 slugging percentage. Out of 206 career hits, Jimenez had 78 extra-base hits, including 44 doubles, four triples and 30 home runs. She finished with 170 career RBI and 102 runs scored. Defensively she finished with 277 career putouts and 278 assists. Jimenez graduated with a Bachelors Degree from the University of Utah in Family, Community and Human Development in 2024.