Assistant coach Mallory Borden joined the Panthers in Fall 2025.
Borden served as the athletic director for the 2024-25 school year at Middleburg High School in Florida, overseeing all athletic programs, budgets, compliance, scheduling and facility operations.
She spent six seasons on staff at Elon University, serving as assistant coach from 2017–19 before being promoted to associate head coach and recruiting coordinator from 2019–23. During her tenure, Borden helped guide athletes to career-best seasons at the plate while also earning conference and regional accolades, including CAA Defensive Player of the Year and NFCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region honors. She also organized large-scale camps, such as a USA Softball of NC event that drew more than 160 athletes.
Before joining Elon, she spent the 2016–17 season as a volunteer assistant at the College of Charleston, where she helped the team post a .303 batting average and rank among the nation’s leaders with 27 double plays, finishing the year with a .969 fielding percentage. Borden also led the program’s community service initiatives.
Prior to joining the Cougar staff, Borden was a high school teacher and coach at her alma mater, Trinity Christian Academy in Jacksonville. Her softball team won a district and regional championship and reached the state semifinals in 2016.
A four-year letterwinner at Florida State (2009–12), Borden served as team captain and member of the leadership council, helping the Seminoles to an ACC championship and multiple NCAA postseason appearances. She began her collegiate career at Santa Fe Community College in 2008, earning First Team Louisville Slugger/NFCA All-South Region, Third Team NFCA All-American, First Team All-Conference, and Second Team All-State honors, helping her team to a No. 2 national ranking and a spot in the school’s Hall of Fame.
Borden was a Dean’s List student and earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology and social science from Florida State in 2012. After her graduation she served as an officer with the FSU police department as well as an instructor for GameSpeed Softball in Tallahassee.
