The 2025 season marked head coach Sarah Jamo’s 13th season leading the University of Southern Maine Huskies softball team. Stepping into the role in the summer of 2012, Jamo has transformed the Huskies’ into a regional and conference contender with numerous student-athletes earning conference, regional and national accolades both athletically and academically.
Taking over a program that won just four games in 2011, Jamo more than doubled that total in her first season and since then has led the Huskies’ program to eight twenty-win season, including a 31-6-1 record in 2021 that included Southern Maine’s first Little East Conference Regular Season Championship in more than 20 years, and the program’s third NCAA National Championship appearance.
Twice named the Little East Conference Coach of the Year (2015, 2021), Jamo’s Huskies’ have qualified for the Little East Conference post-season tournament the past seven seasons consecutively, earning the number one seed in 2021, and the number two seed in 2022 and 2024. In 2023, the Huskies’ entered the tourney as the no. 5 seed, and advanced to the championship round.
Earning her 100th career win as the Huskies’ head coach on April 14, 2018 defeating Little East Conference opponent Rhode Island College 3-1, her 200th career win as head coach came in a doubleheader sweep over conference foe Plymouth State University on April 27, 2023. Currently sitting at 251 all-time wins, Jamo ranks second in program history for Coaches’ All-Time Records.
Since the 2013 season, Jamo has coached 49 All-Little East Conference selections, and seven National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Region selections in Madi Day (2024). Abby Miner (2024) Belle Snyder (2022), Ashley Tinsman (2021), Kirsten Pelletier (2021), Courtney Davis (2015, 2016).
At the conclusion of the 2025 season, Husky first-year pitcher Mia Coots was named to the LEC first team, and was selected as the Maine College Baseball & Softball Association (MCBSA) Rookie of the Year.
Academically, Jamo’s teams excel and her players have earned Academic All-District honors 15 times. Two of Jamo’s former players have also been recognized for their academic and athletic excellence with Academic All-American honors in former All-Conference shortstop Mary Caron (Third Team, 2017) and All-Conference catcher Ashley Tinsman (Second Team, 2021).
Prior to her arrival at Southern Maine, Jamo had a strong coaching background after an outstanding pitching career at the University of Maine. As the Greely High School head coach in 2012, Jamo amassed a 16-3 overall record and led Greely to an appearance in the Class B Western Maine Championship. Jamo also served as the Huskies’ pitching coach in the spring of 2012 on a part-time basis. Jamo also has three years of experience as an assistant coach and pitching coach at Division II Merrimack College. While at Merrimack, Jamo assisted in all phases of coaching and was responsible for administering game-day decision of starters and relievers.
A two-time (2005, 2006) all-conference first team and an all-rookie team (2003) selection while at UMaine, Jamo finished her decorated career with the Black Bears as their all-time leader in strikeouts and wins in a season (2006). Helping lead the Black Bears to the 2004 America East conference championship, Jamo was named to the all-tournament team – a feat she repeated in 2005.
During her collegiate playing career, Jamo served as team captain (2006) and had the honor of representing the United States of America at a tournament in the Czech Republic in 2005. She earned UMaine’s Student-Athlete Award for academic achievement and America East Conference All-Academic Team honors from 2003-2006. Jamo earned her bachelor’s degree in secondary education with a concentration in social studies from UMaine in 2006. A 2002 graduate of Greely High School, Jamo was the Portland Press Herald and Lewiston Sun Journal Softball Player of the Year as a senior.
Jamo resides in Pownal with her husband and two children, Cooper and Brynn.
