Title: Head coach, Cal Poly
Sport: Fastpitch Softball
Career Record: 200-150

The engineer behind the Cal Poly softball program’s emergence as annual contenders for the Big West championship is seventh-year head coach Jenny Condon.  Condon directed Cal Poly to Big West titles in 2007 and 2009.  Under Condon, the 2005, 2007 and 2009 Big West Coach of the Year selection, Cal Poly has suffered just two losing seasons.

The Mustangs finished the year with an 11-36 overall record in 2011.  Despite the program’s 23-24 overall finish in 2010, Cal Poly’s 12-9 Big West mark kept the Mustangs within the top-three programs in the conference standings for the sixth-successive season. Led by designated player Anna Cahn’s selection as Big West Field Player of the Year, five Mustangs earned all-conference praise in 2010.

The 2009 season proved to be the finest effort in Cal Poly’s 17-year Division I tenure as the Mustangs established single-season program records for overall winning percentage (.774), conference winning percentage (.857), conference victories (18), fewest conference defeats (three) and fewest overall defeats (12) en route to capturing a second Big West title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Mustangs, who made program history by rising as high as No. 21 in the USA Today/NFCA poll, produced their first NCAA Tournament victories at the Division I level and reached the championship round of the Stanford sub-regional.

Setting the table for an historic 2009 campaign was a solid 2008 effort as the Mustangs finished 24-22 overall and in third place in the Big West standings with a 12-9 mark.  Prior to the 2009 campaign, Cal Poly’s 2007 season ranked as the most-notable year in program history. Aside from capturing the program’s first Big West title and securing its first NCAA Tournament berth at the Division I level, Cal Poly established then-single-season records for total victories (39) and overall (.696) and conference (.778) winning percentage.

A standout player in the collegiate and international arenas, Condon’s influence at Cal Poly was felt instantly as her inaugural 2005 squad posted a 35-16 mark. The Mustangs went 15-6 in Big West play and the second-place finish was, at the time, the best showing in program history. Cal Poly’s 27-23 record in 2006 was backed by an 11-7 Big West mark.

Under Condon, Cal Poly players have enjoyed six selections to the NFCA Division I All-West Region team while 33 total Mustangs have garnered All-Big West first and second team selection.

Condon began her coaching career at UNLV in 1994, assisting the Rebels to a third-place finish at the 1995 WCWS. She relocated to Northwestern in 1997 before beginning a two-year stint with Oregon State in 1998. The following season, the Beavers recorded a school-record 47 wins and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history. Head coach Kirk Walker’s staff earned Speedline/NFCA Pacific Region Coaching Staff of the Year honors.

Condon spent the 2000 campaign with UNLV before returning to Corvallis in 2001. She served four additional seasons at Oregon State until accepting the Cal Poly head coaching position on Aug. 25, 2004.

Condon competed collegiately at Iowa State and completed a prolific career in 1990. A 1989 NFCA All-America second team selection, four-time All-Big Eight honoree and three-time academic all-conference pick, Condon remains Iowa State’s all-time leader for hits (216), runs (120), triples (24) and batting average (.351). The outfielder was inducted into the Iowa State Hall of Fame in 2003. A native of Edina, Minn., Condon earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Iowa State in 1991 with a minor in health.

Condon began a two-year stint with USA Softball in 1994 by helping the Americans capture the 1994 International Softball Federation World Championship in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A year later, the United States won the Pan-American Games gold medal in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Additionally, Condon played on three National Women’s Fastpitch League championship teams with the California Commotion and was named an ASA All-American four times – twice with the Commotion and twice more with MCM Sports. She earned gold medals in softball at the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1994 and 1995 and in team handball at the 1993 competition.