Forest Named Assistant Coach
September 22, 2005 | Softball
Assistant Coach
Jocelyn Forest
First Season
University of California-Berkeley '02
Former NCAA Women???s College World Series champion Jocelyn Forest has been named assistant softball coach at Boston University. Forest, who was the starting pitcher for the University of California-Berkeley 2002 national championship team, will coach the Terrier pitchers in 2006.
Forest spent the last year as head coach at Encinal High School in Alameda, Calif., and has competed for the New England Riptide (of Lowell, Mass.) in the National Professional Fast Pitch League in each of the last two summers. In addition, she played for the USA Elite Team, which participated in international tournaments in Canada and Spain. In her two seasons as a member of the Riptide, Forest had a combined record of 22-12 with an ERA just above 1.00 in both seasons. She was named to the Eastern Division all-star team in 2004 after leading the league in strikeouts with 162.
In 2003, Forest played for a semi-professional team in the Netherlands, DSC 74, where she helped her squad win its first ever Dutch League championship and was named league MVP.
Forest enjoyed four dominating years at Cal, and her teams went to four consecutive College World Series. In 2002, she finished 29-12 overall, but was a phenomenal 8-0 in NCAA Regional and College World Series play. She pitched five shutouts in the postseason, including three in the College World Series. In her final three CWS appearances, she did not allow a run and pitched a two-hitter and back-to-back one hitters - including the title-clinching game against Arizona. She was named Most Outstanding Player at the College World Series and was selected to the all-tournament team, as she led Cal to its first NCAA women???s national championship of any kind. In 2001, as a junior, she tossed two no-hitters, against Harvard and Cal-Riverside, and finished with a record of 27-9 with a 0.82 ERA. In 1999 as a freshman, Forest went 24-7 with a 1.32 ERA. She led the Bears to the College World Series and pitched a no-hitter against UMass in the regional championship game, played in Amherst, Mass.
The 25-year old Forest is a native of Santa Maria, Calif. She graduated from Cal in 2002 and earned her B.A. in American Studies and Education.
