With over three decades of experience at the highest levels of softball and baseball, Jenny Dalton-Hill leads the front office of the Bandits as general manager during the inaugural 2025 Athletes Unlimited Pro Softball (AUSL) season. Dalton-Hill heads the Bandits front office while also serving in her second stint as a member of USA Baseball’s Board of Directors. She previously held the role from 2012-20 before reclaiming a spot on the Board in 2022. Dalton-Hill has also served as a coach for the inaugural USA Baseball Girls Camp and was a part of the Women’s National Team Development Program in 2011, 2014 and 2021. In 2012, she guided the U.S. Women’s National Team to an International Baseball Federation (IBF) Women’s Baseball World Cup Silver medal as an assistant coach. One of the most prolific hitters in Arizona program history, Dalton-Hill piloted the Wildcats to a 232-26 (.899) record and three NCAA Division I titles in her four seasons from 1993-96. She was a three-time NFCA All-America selection and garnered Pac-10 Conference Player of the Year distinction in 1996. Dalton-Hill, the 1996 Honda Award recipient, also became the first Wildcat to claim the league’s Triple Crown as she led the Pac-10 with a .469 batting average, 25 home runs and 109 RBI during her final season at Arizona. A career .412 hitter with the Wildcats, Dalton-Hill finished her college career with 76 home runs, 291 hits and a remarkable 328 runs batted in, which remains the NCAA Division I record after nearly 30 years. She is one of six players in NCAA Division I history to drive in 300 or more runs. Dalton-Hill, who was inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame in 2001, joined the collegiate softball coaching ranks as a volunteer assistant coach at her alma mater during the 1997 season when the Wildcats collected their fifth NCAA crown. She also had a two-year stint as an assistant coach at Kentucky. In addition to her standout softball career, Dalton-Hill competed on the baseball diamond playing for the Colorado Silver Bullets under MLB Hall of Famer Phil Niekro during the team’s final season in 1997. She batted .300 and guided the Silver Bullets to the only winning season in team history with a 23-22 record. The team is enshrined in Cooperstown as part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Dalton-Hill went on to join Team USA in the 2010 Women’s Baseball World Cup, helping the squad earn a Bronze medal with a 15-5 victory against Venezuela. She led Team USA in the Bronze medal game by going 2-for-2 with three runs batted in. In 2022, Dalton-Hill became just the seventh woman to be inducted to the Little League Hall of Excellence. She was a part of the 1989 Senior League Softball World Series, advancing to the championship game. Dalton-Hill has worked with ESPN as a softball analyst since 2013, including the Women’s College World Series and the Little League Softball® World Series. She was also part of the 7Innings Podcast that features collegiate softball and the journey to the Women’s College World Series. Dalton-Hill’s high school alma mater, Glendale High School, renamed its softball field (Dalton Field) in her honor in 2005 along with retiring her jersey number.

Shonda Stanton enters her ninth year as head coach of Indiana University, where she has taken the Hoosiers to three straight NCAA Tournaments, the first such instance in program history. Prior stops include IU Indianapolis (formerly IUPUI) and Marshall. During her lone season with IU Indianapolis, she ushered the Jaguars into NCAA Division I level, leading the program to its first-ever winning season at the highest level of collegiate athletics. Across 17 seasons with Marshall, Stanton led the Thundering Herd to historic new heights; qualifying for the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament, in 2013. As head coach, she had three players earn NFCA All-American honors, including AUSL veteran and Bandits outfielder, Morgan Zerkle. In her four-year career at UNC Greensboro, she helped lead the Spartans to two Big South Conference titles.