Ellie Adams enters her second year as head coach of the Pride softball program in 2023-24.

The 2023 team showed improvement at the plate, highlighted by Bianca Burke setting new single season records with 49 hits and 33 runs scored. At .280, the team enjoyed its best overall batting average in six years, tying for the third-most hits in a single season with 278.

Adams had been an assistant coach at Agnes Scott College, an NCAA Division III program located in Decatur, Ga., from 2020-22. She was the primary hitting coach, plus she assisted Head Coach Kerry Busby with game strategy as well as recruiting and instructing players. In addition, Adams created social media content for both the softball team and the entire athletic department as the communications graduate assistant.

Besides her duties at Agnes Scott, Adams was also the head coach of the ATL Patriots 14U club team, developing players in the fundamentals of softball as well as executing practice plans and game management. She has also been an assistant coach at NAIA programs Aquinas College and Indiana Institute of Technology and NCAA Division III program Kalamazoo College.

Adams played at Aquinas College from 2013 to 2017 and is currently ninth on the Aquinas career home run list with 16 as well as 10^th in career doubles with 38 and in career runs batted in with 105. As a senior, she helped the Saints post a 35-13-1 overall record, earning Second Team All-WHAC and All-Defensive Team honors after batting .331 with four home runs and 33 RBIs.

Adams, a 2017 All-WHAC Academic selection, received her Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and sport management from Aquinas College in May 2017 and her Master of Science degree in sport administration from Georgia State University in May 2022.