University of Mississippi Softball

Head coach Jamie Trachsel enters her sixth season at the helm of the Ole Miss softball program heading into the 2026 season. In just five years in Oxford, sh...

Ole Miss softball head coach Jamie Trachsel added Bobby Buchanan as an assistant coach to the program in July 2024 with Buchanan set for his second season in...

Earned All-SEC Second Team honors twice (2023, 2024)… Two-time NFCA All-South Region First Team selection (2023, 2024)… Started all 55 games her final season, slashing .300/.357/.553… Collected 45 hits including 11 doubles and nine home runs, driving in 32 runs… Hit .320 across four seasons with a .379 on-base percentage… Slugged .630 with 59 home runs… Collected 233 hits, 43 doubles, three triples, and 207 RBI. Started 240 of the 241 games she played. All-Summit League First Team (2021, 2022)… 2022 Summit League All-Tournament Team… 2021 Summit League Player of the Year… 2021 NFCA All-Region Second Team and NFCA Top 25 Freshman Finalist. Graduated from Arkansas with a B.S. in Business Administration. Sioux Falls, South Dakota native. Currently pursuing her Master's in Sports and Recreation Administration.

Ole Miss softball head coach Jamie Trachsel welcomed former Rebel Delaney Rummell back to Oxford as the Director of Operations in August 2025. Rummell returns to Oxford after competing for the Rebels during the 2024 season, following her transfer from Illinois. Rummell hit .251 with three home runs and 24 RBI over 58 starts in her lone season in Oxford. Over her five collegiate seasons, Rummell hit a combined .268 with 27 home runs, 38 doubles and 135 RBI over 236 games and starts. A key starter on the 2024 roster, her efforts helped lead the Rebels back to the NCAA Tournament. The former All-Big Ten and All-Big Ten Defensive Team honoree most recently worked with the NCAA in leadership development, where she helped manage travel logistics and communication for consultants, speakers and program participants, while planning and implementing programs to educate and empower student-athletes, coaches and administrators in leadership development. Rummell also spent time with Illinois prior to attending Ole Miss, working as both a student-athlete development intern and in development operations, where she coordinated scheduling, ticket allocation and event logistics for Fighting Illini events. Rummell graduated from Ole Miss with a Master of Science in sport analytics in 2024, recording a 4.0 GPA. Rummell graduated from Illinois in 2023 with a bachelor's degree in recreation, sport and tourism.

A legendary softball player from Japan, Yamada won two Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, while also taking home a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Yamada joins the Rebels with 24 years of experience as a player and a coach, most recently serving as an assistant coach for the Japanese national softball team. Prior coaching experience included a stint as an assistant coach at Tsukuba University and as a player-coach for Japanese professional side Denso Bright Pegasus. Yamada's playing career spanned 20 years, which included 18 years with Japanese side Hitachi Sundiva. Yamada also spent time in the United States as a member of both the Chicago Bandits and Dallas Charge of the now defunct National Pro Fastpitch (NPF). Yamada concluded her playing career with Denso for two seasons. Over her playing career, Yamada took home 13 medals across the Olympic Games, Women's Softball World Cup and the Women's Softball Asian Cup, including the aforementioned two Olympic gold medals, one gold medal in the world championship and four Asian championship titles.

Ole Miss softball head coach Jamie Trachsel added Morgan Klaevemann as an assistant coach to the program in September 2025. Klaevemann joins the Rebels after...

Ole Miss softball head coach Jamie Trachsel announced the addition of Nancy Evans, a six-time NCAA national champion pitcher and coach, to the Rebels’ staff ...