Coaching Staff

Josh Bloomer | Assistant Coach

 Josh Bloomer joined the Sun Devil Softball coaching staff as Hitting Coach and Recruiting Coordinator on August 1, 2024. He made the move to Tempe after spending one season at the University of Arizona.

With Bloomer as the team’s hitting coach, Arizona finished 12th in the NCAA in batting average and 15th in scoring, on-base, and slugging. The Wildcats were also 17th nationally in home runs per game while advancing to the NCAA Super Regionals.

Before joining the staff in Tucson, Bloomer spent one season as the hitting coach at South Carolina. Under Bloomer's guidance in 2023, the Gamecocks finished with a 40-22 record – a 14-win improvement from their 26-30 record in 2022 – and made their first postseason appearance since 2019. The Gamecocks ended the year ranked third in the SEC in doubles after ranking 12th in 2022.

Prior to South Carolina, Bloomer spent three seasons at Duke, helping lead the Blue Devils to the 2021 ACC Tournament title and being named to the 2021 and 2022 NFCA Regional Coaching Staffs of the Year.

During his time at Duke, the Blue Devils had a 111-27 record and ranked in the top five of the ACC in batting average in each of his three seasons. In 2022, Duke hit .330 to rank second in the ACC and ninth in the NCAA – the highest batting average in the program's history. Duke ranked first or second in the ACC in all offensive categories in 2022, highlighted by leading the conference in home runs per game (1.76), slugging percentage (.610), on-base percentage (.417), and scoring (7.16). Duke's scoring and slugging percentage ranked third in the NCAA.

In 2021, Duke led the ACC in doubles (79) and triples (15) under Bloomer's guidance and ranked fifth in the conference with a .271 batting average. The Blue Devils won their first ACC Tournament Championship with a 44-12 record and earned the No. 13 seed in their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.

In the shortened 2020 season, Bloomer helped Duke rank in the top 30 in the NCAA in several offensive categories with a .319 batting average (26th), a .528 slugging percentage (19th), 44 doubles (15th), 0.37 triples per game (21st), and 6.59 runs per game (19th).

Before coaching at Duke and South Carolina, Bloomer had coaching stints at Louisville Male High School and Mercy Academy in Louisville. At Louisville Male, Bloomer led the softball program to a 458-147-4 record in seven seasons, highlighted by winning the NFCA and Kentucky state championship titles in 2019, six regional championships, and state runner-up finishes in 2015 and 2017.

Bloomer served as the head softball coach at Mercy Academy from 2005-12 and led them to the Kentucky state championship in 2012.

Bloomer graduated from the University of Kentucky, earning his master's in education in 2002.

Jeremy Manley | Pitching Coach

Jeremy Manley is in his third season as the Pitching Coach with the Sun Devil Softball program.

Before joining the Sun Devils, Manley spent three seasons as the pitching coach at Ball State. He made an immediate impact in his first season with the Cardinals, as the team led the Mid-American Conference and ranked 37th nationally with a 2.22 team ERA during the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season. The effort helped the Cardinals amass an 18-9 record, where Ball State pitchers struck out 149 batters to rank second in the MAC. The team's 6.02 strikeouts per seven innings ranked as the fourth-best average in program history.

Ball State's four pitchers allowed just 55 earned runs over their 173.1 innings of work while holding opposing batters to a .243 average. They also combined for four shutouts on the year and held opponents to three or fewer runs in 16 games.

Prior to joining the Ball State staff, Manley spent one season as an assistant at Kansas during the 2019 season. That followed two seasons of coaching success in the MAC, helping develop one of the most dominating pitching staffs in conference history at Ohio from 2017-18.

During his two-year stint at Ohio, Manley assisted with the pitching staff that produced a 1.98 ERA in 2017 and led the league with 541 strikeouts, 201 more than any other program in the conference. The 2018 season was no different, as the Bobcats produced a 2.51 ERA, which was second in the MAC. Ohio's pitchers again led the conference in strikeouts in 2018, fanning 410 batters.

Ohio registered an 82-35 overall record during his time on staff, including winning the 2018 MAC regular season and tournament championships to earn a berth in the 2018 NCAA Knoxville Regional. At that regional, Ohio claimed the first two NCAA regional wins in program history with a 4-0 shutout over Monmouth and a 7-3 victory over James Madison. The 2017 Bobcats recorded the first 40-win season in program history (42-18), while the 2018 squad earned the second (40-17).

Along with the team accolades, Manley worked with a pair of MAC Pitchers of the Year in Savannah Jo Dorsey and Danielle Stiene. Ohio's student-athletes also earned 11 All-MAC and 13 Academic All-MAC honors during Manley's two seasons, while the coaching staff was named the 2018 NFCA Division I Mideast Regional Coaching Staff of the Year.

Before his time at Ohio, Manley was a volunteer assistant at Illinois for the 2015 season, working with the offense and pitching staff. Before joining the NCAA Division I coaching ranks, Manley was a coach and pitching instructor in New Zealand and Central Illinois, ranging from private individual lessons to high school and junior college level coaching.

Manley was a World Champion pitcher as an athlete, leading the New Zealand Men's National Team, also known as the Black Sox, to the International Softball Federation Men's Fastpitch World Series title in 2013. Manley earned the Kevin Herlihy Memorial Trophy for Most Valuable Pitcher for his efforts in the circle, the only individual honor awarded at the event. The world championship followed a second-place finish at the 2009 ISF Men's World Series.

A Black Sox member since 2006, Manley was named Softball New Zealand Pitcher of the Year four times (2006, 2010, 2011, 2013) and played in tournaments in Japan, Australia, Argentina, Samoa, Canada and New Zealand. Manley was also named International Softball Congress All-World three times, including first-team selections in 2009 and 2010, and earned Amateur Softball Association All-America selections in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014, and 2015. Manley was named to the 2025 class for induction into the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame.

Beyond his play with the Black Sox, Manley won the New Zealand Men's Open Club Championships in 2006 and 2010 with Hutt City United and the Hutt Valley Dodgers, respectively. Following his second championship, he was named the Tournament Most Valuable Player and Pitcher, and the Dodgers named him Sportsman of the Year and their Most Valuable Pitcher. Manley graduated from Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, in December 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in exercise science, emphasizing management and coaching.

A full scholarship student-athlete, he was a three-time Massey University Blues Award winner, the highest sporting accolade awarded in the New Zealand tertiary system.

Jeremy and his wife, Ali, have two children, Josie and Wyatt.

Hailey Decker | Defensive Coordinator

Hailey Decker joined the Sun Devil Softball staff in the fall of 2023 after spending four seasons on the University of the Pacific staff. During that time, the Tigers had a pair of winning seasons.

She joined the Tigers program after serving two seasons as an assistant at Pacific University, located in Forest Grove, Oregon. During that tenure, Decker helped lead the Boxers to consecutive Northwest Conference Tournament appearances in 2018 and 2019.

Prior to her time with the Boxers, Decker was an assistant at Corban University, where she was the infield and hitting coach. While with the Warriors' she helped coach the team to a Cascade Collegiate Conference title and a runner-up finish in the NAIA World Series.

The Keizer, Oregon native's coaching roots come from her father, Steve Decker, who played baseball professionally before moving into the coaching ranks for the San Francisco Giants organization.

Decker, a middle infielder, played for two elite programs during college. She began her collegiate career at Nebraska in 2013, where she helped the Huskers to a stellar 45-16 record en route to an appearance at the Women's College World Series.

As a sophomore, the Huskers recorded another 40-win season at 44-18 before advancing to the NCAA Super Regionals. In her final season with Nebraska, Decker set the Huskers' single-season record for doubles and was named First Team All-Big 10 and First Team All-Midwest Region.

Decker transferred to the University of Oregon as a junior and was a starter for the Ducks in the 2015 WCWS. Earning All-Pac 12 Honorable Mention and First Team All-Pacific Region, Decker helped Oregon to back-to-back Pac-12 titles in 2015 and 2016.

Decker graduated with a degree in Psychology from Oregon in 2017. Following graduation, Decker became a member of the Philippines National Team, where she went on to start for the national squad in the World Cup of Softball and the Canada Cup.

In April of 2022, Decker was appointed as the new head coach of the RP Blu Girls, the national team representing the Philippines.