Amy Dumas enters her third season as the Georgia State softball pitching coach. Dumas joined the coaching staff prior to the start of the 2011 season as a volunteer coach before being promoted to a full-time assistant prior to the 2012 season.

Three Panther pitchers have earned All-Conference honors in the two years under Dumas’ guidance. McCall Langford was named to the All-CAA first team in 2011 and Kaitlyn Medlam earned CAA second-team honors in both 2011 and 2012. Langford secured a spot on the NFCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region team in 2011.

Medlam was also named the 2011 CAA Rookie of the Year, while Alana Thomas earned the distinction as the CAA tournament Most Outstanding Performer during the same season. Six CAA Pitcher of the Week awards have been claimed by GSU pitchers during Dumas’ tenure.

Dumas came to Georgia State from Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., where she served for one season in as the pitching coach. There she helped tutor Leslie Hensley, who led the Blue Hose in wins (9), strikeouts (104) and earned run average (2.63), finishing fifth in the Big South Conference in strikeouts and ERA.

A 2009 graduate of Augusta State, Dumas posted a 17-7 mark with a 2.20 ERA in 2006, earning the Peach Belt Conference’s Pitcher of the Year award. She led the nation with 259 strikeouts, whiffing 11.95 batters per seven innings of work. That same season, she notched a .317 batting average, tallying eight doubles to go along with two homers. Dumas also drove in 18 runs.

A two-time Augusta State Female Athlete of the Year award winner, Dumas picked up Peach Belt Pitcher of the Week honors on six occasions. She was also a three-time Peach Belt all-conference selection and a three-time South Atlantic all-region team member. Dumas accounted for 62 wins in the circle for the Lady Jaguars.

Dumas graduated from Augusta State in August 2009 with a degree in health science. She also earned a Georgia High School Association certificate in 2008.