Presleigh Pilon

Biography

Presleigh Pilon begins her first season as Director of Player Development at Southern Miss during the 2025–26 school year. Pilon joins the Golden Eagles following a successful collegiate playing career that included stops at LSU and Baylor. During the 2024 season, Pilon appeared in and started all 59 games, hitting .234 with 40 hits, five doubles, and one home run while recording 20 RBIs. She began the season at second base before moving to shortstop, helping her team turn 24 double plays. She tied a career-high with three hits against BYU, hit her first collegiate home run in that series, and set a career-high with six assists against Houston. She also ranked No. 74 nationally in toughest to strike out. In 2023, Pilon was one of two players to start all 58 games, tallying 40 hits and 22 RBIs. She contributed to a single-season program record of 31 double plays turned while adding 15 stolen bases and six sacrifice hits. She set single-game career highs in hits (3), RBIs (3), stolen bases (2), putouts (5), and assists (5). Pilon began her collegiate career at LSU, where she made nine appearances with four starts during the 2022 season. She recorded nine assists and seven putouts without committing an error. She logged her first collegiate hit—a two-run single—against Stephen F. Austin (2/25) and added an RBI triple in a win over then-No. 2 Alabama (3/12). She did not see game action during the 2021 season and was redshirted. A 2020 graduate of Murrieta Mesa High School in Murr