University of Washington Athletics

Jenn Salling enters her first season as an assistant coach with Washington softball ahead of the 2024-25 season.

Salling makes her way back to Seattle after a successful stint as an assistant coach at Central Florida the past two seasons. At UCF, Salling helped the Knights to back-to-back 30-win seasons and appearances in consecutive NCAA Regionals. Salling also served as an assistant coach at Roosevelt University (2013-14) and was a graduate assistant at Washington for two seasons.
 
During her time as a Husky, Salling was named Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year, first team all-conference, a Top 25 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and twice named an NFCA All-American. She held a .342 career batting average in the Purple and Gold and is fifth all-time with a .474 on base percentage. Salling drove in 92 runs over three season – including 43 in her senior season.

Following her collegiate career, Salling was selected third overall in the 2011 NPF Draft. She spent four seasons in the pro ranks competing with the USSSA Pride and the Pennsylvania Rebellion.
 
Salling has competed in the Olympics twice with the Canadian National Team, first in 2008 in Beijing and in 2020 at the Tokyo Olympic Games earning the bronze medal alongside fellow Husky alums Danielle Lawrie and Victoria Hayward. At the 2020 Olympics, she hit .571 (8-for-14) to break Lisa Fernandez's tournament record. Salling added five RBI and a home run to lead Canada to their first-ever Olympic medal.

She first made her debut with the Canadian women’s national team in 2006 where she competed in the WBSC Women’s Softball World Championship, her first of five appearances as a player.
 
Salling is also part of the Canadian National Team coaching poll and served as an assistant coach last summer as part of the WBSC Women’s Softball World Cup group stage.