D.J. Mathis, a former All-American softball player and two-time all-region selection, was named the assistant softball coach at Kansas University on Tuesday.

Mathis was the second overall pick in the 2009 National Pro Fastpitch Senior Draft by the Akron Racers. She was a standout pitcher at the University of Oklahoma from 2006-09. Mathis owns the program’s second-best winning percentage (.768) after going 76-23 in four seasons with the Sooners and posted a 1.90 career earned-run average.