Green-Jones comes back home

By Jan Winslow
Athletic Media Relations

Wearing the Bulldog colors as a player and now a coach has the newest assistant softball coach Marcie Green-Jones excited.

Green-Jones, a four-year standout pitcher for the Fresno State Bulldogs (1990-93), replaced Laura Berg, who stepped down after making her third U.S. Olympic Softball Team that will compete in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens , Greece.

"I am extremely excited to have Marcie join our staff," Fresno State head softball coach Margie Wright said. "She is very competitive and a hard worker. She brings expertise in the total game of softball. Her loyalty to and knowledge of the program will add a great deal. I'm really looking forward to her coming on board."

"I am overjoyed to become a Bulldog again," Green-Jones said. "Being back in the colors that I wore with such pride is tremendous. I am looking forward to working with Coach Wright again and help continue the Bulldog winning tradition."

Green-Jones comes to Fresno State after serving the previous three years as an assistant coach at the College of Sequoias . COS is coming off a third place finish in the state tournament as she was part of a coaching staff that was selected as the 2003 National Fastpitch Coaches Association/California Junior College Coaching Staff of the Year last May.

While COS captured two conference titles (2002 and '03) under her assistance, she also coached her first NFCA All-America pitcher last spring. In addition, Green-Jones served as adjunct faculty member who taught a physical education class on Fundamentals of Fast Pitch Softball.

In the Amateur Softball Association arena, Green-Jones was as an assistant coach for the Valley ICE Softball Organization the past two years and helped the 18-under team reach the national tournament in 2001 and 2002. Also, Green-Jones co-directed the Fresno Force Softball Organization (1992-95). As co-head coach she guided the 16-under team to a national title in 1993 while reaching nationals with numerous age groups with the Fresno Force.

Green-Jones wrapped up her Bulldog career listed among the school's career top five in virtually every pitching category. The two-time all-Big West honoree guided Fresno State to three Big West Conference titles en route to four NCAA Regional appearances and three Women's College World Series showings.

The two-time team co-MVP was named all-WCWS as a freshman when the Bulldogs finished as the national runner-up in 1990. With a tournament leading 14 strikeouts at the WCWS, she recorded shutout wins over Arizona and Oklahoma State . The next two years she would be decisive in the circle for the Bulldogs as she won the regional championship games that sent the Bulldogs to the WCWS in 1991 and '92, in which the 'Dogs finished third both years.

As a Bulldog, Green-Jones went 86-26 in the circle with 60 shutouts and 584 strikeouts in 779.1 innings pitched for a 0.66 ERA. In addition, she appeared in 119 games and started 112 while tossing 104 complete games. Throwing four no-hitters and tallying three 20-win seasons, she ranks among the program's top three in eight pitching categories while listed overall in 15 of the17 pitching categories.

The Visalia native, graduated from Fresno State with a bachelor of science degree in criminology in 1994.