Cedarville University Yellow Jackets

Wes Rowe has been the head softball coach at Cedarville University since 2008 and is the winningest coach in the program's history.

The Lady Jackets have registered school-record 35-win efforts in 2012, 2014, and 2015 and seven 30-win seasons in all.

Cedarville garnered back-to-back Great Midwest Athletic Conference regular season titles in both 2017 and 2018 thus earning the league’s top seed in the post-season. The Jackets are a four-time runner-up of the G-MAC Tournament in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2019.
 

Cedarville Career Coaching Record: Overall Conference W L Pct W L Pct Place -------------------------------------------------- 2008 18 24 .429 7 13 .350 tie 5th 2009 16 30 .348 6 14 .300 9th 2010 21 29 .420 6 10 .375 7th 2011 32 21 .604 9 4 .692 3rd 2012 35 23 .603 0 0 .000 2013 26 21 .553 5 7 .417 3rd 2014 35 19 .648 13 7 .650 tie 3rd 2015     35  26  .574       14   6   .700  tie 2nd 2016     28  31  .475       16  12   .571  4th 2017     33  20  .623       21   4   .840  1st 2018     31  18  .633       19   5   .792  1st 2019     33  17  .660       15   7   .682  4th 2020      5  19  .208        0   0   .000 2021     21  22  .488        9  13   .409  8th -------------------------------------------------- Totals  369 320  .536      140 102   .579 NCCAA Midwest Region Champions - 2011, 2012, 2017 NCCAA National Tournament - 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017 G-MAC Regular Season Champions - 2017, 2018

Cedarville Honor Roll: G-MAC Coach of the Year - 2017 1 NCCAA National Player of the Year 1 NFCA Division II First Team All-American 1 CCA Division II First Team All-American 14 NCCAA All-Americans 1 NCCAA Game Plan 4 Life Character Award recipient 5 NCCAA National All-Tournament Team players 6 NAIA Scholar-Athletes 41 NCCAA Scholar-Athletes 45 All-NCCAA Midwest Region players 32 NCCAA Midwest Region All-Tournament players 1 NFCA Division II Midwest Region player 4 CCA Division II Midwest Region players 42 All-Conference players 75 All-Conference Academic Team players 1 Conference Player of the Year 2 Conference Pitchers of the Year 2 Conference Freshmen of the Year 13 All-Conference Freshmen Team players

Prior to coming to Cedarville, Rowe was the girls softball varsity assistant coach for one year at Milan High School in Michigan. He served as head coach of the Michigan Dominators 18U travel team for three seasons.

Rowe’s 2005 squad won four tournaments while the 2004 team placed 4th out of 44 teams at the USSSA World Series and earned the Sportsmanship Award in voting by all competing teams. His 2003 club finished 5th in the NSA World Series and 7th in the Super World Series.

Rowe was the assistant coach of the Michigan Mustangs 16U team in 2002 that finished as the USSSA World Series runner-up. He previously served as head coach of the Calvary Christian Academy baseball team in Ypsilanti, Mich. for the 2000 campaign.

Rowe is a 1978 graduate of Cedarville College. He was a starting outfielder during his four-year Yellow Jacket baseball career.

Wes and his wife, Ann, reside in Xenia. All four of their children have graduated from the University including Charissa, who was a four-year outfielder for the Lady Jackets from 2006 through 2009. The Rowes also have five grandchildren.