Josh Trevino will enter the 2026 season for his fourth season on the Texas State softball coaching staff. In his first three seasons on the Texas State staff as a pitching coach, Trevino helped build one of the Sun Belt Conference's strongest pitching staffs.
In 2025, Trevino coached his third-consecutive First Team All Sun Belt pitcher in Maddy Azua, who was also named Preseason Pitcher of the Year. Azua finished the season with 20 wins, also the third time Trevino had a pitcher reach the 20-win milestone in his three seasons with the program. Under Trevino, the Bobcat pitching staff finished the season ranked nationally in the following categories: strikeout-to-walk ratio (4th, 4.15), team strikeouts per seven innings (26th, 6.55), WHIP (41st, 1.16), shutouts (33rd, 11) and ERA (37th, 2.80).
In 2024, his second season on the staff, Trevino helped build one of the best pitching staffs in the nation. Highlighted by All-American pitcher Jessica Mullins who finished the season with 31 wins on the year for the most in the nation while boasting a 1.45 ERA, Trevino's staff was all-around one of the best. The team had a 1.95 ERA, the best in the Sun Belt Conference and the 9th best in the nation. Among other accolades, he had the Bobcats with the 10th best strikeout to walk ratio (3.52) in the nation, the 10th most shutouts in the nation (15), the most strikeouts in the Sun Belt (348), the fewest extra base hits allowed in the Sun Belt (74), and the lowest opposing batting average of any team in the Sun Belt (.216).
In 2023, Trevino coached three pitchers to sub 2.50 ERAs in 20+ appearances. Jessica Mullins (1.88 ERA, 42 appearances), Tori McCann (2.23 ERA, 26 appearances) and Karsen Pierce (2.45 ERA, 20 appearances) were mainstays in the circle for the Bobcats.
Trevino was a large part in the Bobcats team-wide 2.19 ERA on the season where they allowed just 130 earned runs in 415.0 innings pitched. He was part of the NCAA Division I South Region Coaching Staff of the Year that season.
Trevino is a Texas native, who returned to the Lonestar State in 2023 after spending the last 10 months in Tempe, Ariz., as a graduate assistant at Arizona State University. Arizona State, last season, won 43 of 54 games, the Pac-12 Conference Championship and reached the NCAA Super Regionals.
Yielding just 130 earned runs last season in 350.0 innings pitched, the Sun Devil pitching staff concluded the year with a 2.60 staff earned run average (ERA). Last season, the Texas State pitching staff combined for a 2.41 ERA.
Prior to his stint with the Sun Devils, Trevino had served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Bobcats from 2015-2020. Ranking near the top of the Sun Belt Conference was the Bobcat pitching staff while Trevino assisted in practice plans and student-athlete development during that time.
Shutouts were a trait the Texas State pitching staff did well last season as its 13 ranked 10th on the program's single-season list. Working with the Bobcat pitchers will be one of Trevino's main priorities. Including reigning Sun Belt Pitcher of the Year Jessica Mullins. Furthermore, Trevino spent the seven years as an assistant coach within the Hotshots Premier Fastpitch Organization and has spent time with the Athletes Unlimited Softball League as well.
Trevino is a graduate of Texas State University, where he earned a degree in Exercise and Sports Science. He's pursuing a master's degree in Social and Cultural Pedagogy.
