Jackie Price

YEAR: Second in 2025-26
PREVIOUS COLLEGE: Ohio Northern '12

AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY

Price is in her second season as Ashland University's head softball coach.
Her first campaign of 2025 saw the Eagles go 23-23 overall and 13-11 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. Ashland returned to the conference tournament, and saw a 3 1/2-game improvement over 2024.

BEFORE ASHLAND UNIVERSITY

She comes to AU following eight seasons as head softball coach at her alma mater, Ohio Northern.
Guiding the Polar Bears, Price had a winning record every season, and had a cumulative record of 178-112-1 (.613). Ohio Northern won the Ohio Athletic Conference championship in both the regular season and tournament in 2022, and the OAC tournament title in 2018 and 2021.
Price guided ONU to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2018 – a season in which she earned OAC Coach of the Year honors. She and her staff were named OAC Coaching Staff of the Year in 2022.
In 2015 and 2016, Price was the head softball coach at D-III Hiram. She started her coaching career with assistant coaching stints at D-III John Carroll and Muskingum.
As a player at Ohio Northern, the 2012 graduate was a two-time All-American, two-time OAC Player of the Year and three-time first-team All-OAC selection.
Price is the program's all-time leader with 45 career home runs, which includes a school-record 21 during her junior year. She also ranks second all-time in RBI (179), third in runs scored (172) and fourth in hits (222), walks (79) and slugging percentage (.735).
Her .392 career batting average stands eighth-best all-time for the Polar Bears.

PERSONAL

Price is married to David Price, head football coach at Lake Erie. They have two sons, Malcolm and Cameron.