AILEEN MORALES
AILEEN MORALESHead Coach
Aileen Morales, one of the most decorated student-athletes in Georgia Tech softball history and a former highly successful assistant coach at her alma mater, returned to The Flats as the program’s sixth head coach on June 7, 2017. She’ll enter her seventh season in 2024.

Morales made her own history in her sixth season leading the Yellow Jackets, surpassing 150 wins as a head coach at Georgia Tech with 155 and 250 victories in her career with 268, remaining the fourth-winningest coach in softball history on The Flats. In conference wins, Morales also eclipsed 50, moving to 55, with a win over Virginia as she owns the second-best mark in program history. In terms of win percentages, Morales remains third in program history both overall at .535 and in ACC play at .426. As a unit, the Yellow Jackets earned a win in the ACC tournament for the fourth consecutive year as they went 26-27 overall, including a 7-17 conference record. The squad was among the nation’s best defensively, turning in a .978 fielding percentage to rank 11th in the nation and second in the ACC.

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ERIN DIXSON
ERIN DIXSONAssistant Coach
Erin Dixson was named an assistant coach for Georgia Tech softball on September 5, 2023. Dixson serves as pitching coach for the Yellow Jackets.

In two seasons as the pitching coach at UNC Wilmington, Erin Dixson guided the Seahawks’ hurlers to unprecedented success and was able to do the same as a facilitator during the 2023 Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season.

Under Dixson’s guidance, the Seahawks boasted one of the top pitching staffs in the Colonial Athletic Association while securing the program’s first-ever conference title and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2022.

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DEVEN BOLAND
DEVEN BOLANDAssistant Coach
Deven Boland was promoted to Georgia Tech softball assistant/hitting coach on July 12, 2024 after serving as the program’s director of operations for the 2023-2024 season. Boland joined the Yellow Jackets in August of 2023 after serving as director of player personnel/operations at NC State from 2021-2023, including a stint as interim head coach for the Wolfpack throughout the majority of the 2022 season.

In 2024, Boland served as the director of operations, coordinating many elements of the team’s travel logistics while also contributing with data entry and analysis of various analytical systems for player development. In his first year with the program, the Yellow Jackets hit 89 home runs (1.62 HRs/game), the 4th highest average in Division I. The bats finished with a Top 10 national ranking in both on-base percentage (.409 – 9th) and slugging percentage (.558 – 8th) ultimately finishing with an average of 6.27 runs per game, the 14th best offense in Division I.
Boland previously made his move to NC State after serving as the associate head coach for the North Iowa Area Community College softball program from 2019-21.

In his role, he managed all recruiting aspects for the team and helped with player development by monitoring videos and developing efficient practice plans.
Boland earned his bachelor’s degree in enterprise leadership from Iowa in May of 2019.

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MEGAN HILL
MEGAN HILLAssistant Coach
Megan Hill was hired as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Georgia Tech softball in August of 2024.

Hill joins the Yellow Jackets following two seasons at Campbell, where she helped lead the Camels to back-to-back regular season conference titles and a NCAA Regional in 2023. She was a major factor in helping Campbell claim Coastal Athletic Association Pitcher of the Year, Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year accolades.
Prior to joining Campbell, Hill spent the 2022 season as an assistant at Kennesaw State following three seasons at Radford (2019-21). She has also made coaching stops at East Central Mississippi Community College (2018), Georgia Southern (2017) and West Georgia (2015-16).

In her collegiate playing days, Hill was a standout outfielder for the University of Southern Mississippi (2007-2010), where she still holds several records, including the most HRs, 3Bs, hits, RBIs, runs, TBs, BBs, and OBP over a career. She earned C-USA’s newcomer of the year, second team all-conference three times, first team all-conference once, and Southern Miss student-athlete of the year her senior year. She graduated with a B.S. in Exercise Science in 2010.

She received her Master of Art in teaching degree at the University of West Georgia where she worked with the Wolves’ outfielders and also had a helped with hitting and base running instruction. She also served as a graduate assistant for strength & conditioning.

Prior to her time at West Georgia, Hill was an assistant coach at Oak Grove High School as well as Petal High School, both in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. At both stops she helped oversee the offense as well as developed the outfielders. At Oak Grove, she was instrumental in guiding the team to the 2013 district championship as well as the AAAAAA South State Championship and the overall AAAAAA state crown. In 2011 at Petal HS, she helped guide the team to the district championship as well as the AAAAAA South State Championship. Petal finished the 2011 campaign as the state runner-up.

Hill is a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and holds a degree in exercise science from Southern Miss as well as a Master of Arts in teaching from the University of West Georgia.

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