Jeanette Goodwin played softball from 1993 to 1996 at Bridgewater State. During her distinguished career at Bridgewater, Jen was a two-time captain in the 1995 and 1996 seasons. A three-time NCAA All-American, including being named to the first team in 1996, Jen was also the ECAC Player of the Year in 1995 and 1996 and the MASCAC Player of the Year in 1996. In 1993 Jen was named the Bridgewater Freshman Athlete of the Year and in 1995 was named the Female Athlete of the Year. Jen currently owns numerous batting records at BSC as she is the all-time leader in batting average (.462), home runs (38), extra base hits (103), runs batted in (200) doubles (48) and slugging percentage (.875). She also holds the single season marks for batting average (.504) and home runs (14) which were set in 1993 and 1995 respectively. Her 38 career home runs ranked fifth all-time in NCAA Division III softball history at the time of her induction, and she was also ranked in the top ten in runs batted in and slugging percentage. Jen graduate from Bridgewater State in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education. Following graduation, she played for the Stratford Brakettes, where she was a third-team ASA All-American at third base. Jen also played two years on the USA Women’s National Baseball team.

Jen has served as a collegiate head softball coach at MCLA (1999-2000), Simmons College (2001-2002) and Dartmouth College (2004). She was named the head coach at Yale University in August of 2012 and has served in that role since then.