Jenna Putala is in her fourth season as an assistant softball coach at Babson College in 2024-25.
The Beavers achieved much success during Putala's first season, capturing a share of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season title, posting a program-record 19-game winning streak, advancing to the NCAA Tournament regional final and finishing with a 38-10 overall record. The Beavers advanced to back-to-back NEWMAC Tournament championship games in 2023 and 2024.
Putala came to Babson from Nichols College, where she served as an assistant softball coach and graduate assistant in the athletics communications department from the fall of 2020 through January 2022. The Bison finished 16-12 overall and 7-5 in the Commonwealth Coast Conference in 2021 while averaging nearly six runs per game and recording the program's highest slugging percentage in more than two decades.
A native of Turners Falls, Mass., Putala was a three-year member of the Wesleyan University softball program. She started 22 games and batted .268 with seven doubles, two home runs and 10 RBI as a first-year in 2017 before battling injuries over the final years of her career with the Cardinals.
Putala, who planned and facilitated practices during the non-traditional season and coached first base for the team as a senior, spent four years as a student intern in the sports information office at Wesleyan while earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in English in May 2020.
Putala, who earned her master's degree from Nichols, has served as the organizational director and head coach of the Western Mass Warriors softball club since 2017.
