Jason Ollison was named the head coach of the Lincoln softball team in the summer of 2022 and is in his second season with the program.
In his first year with the program, Ollison helped lead the project to redo LU Softball Field, helping to renovate the campus facility to include new dugouts, signage and turf field. He also coached Lincoln to a 5-3 win over Nebraska Kearney in the first game played on the new field on April 16, 2023. Ollison, who coached Leslie Callahan to All-MIAA second team status, additionally led the Blue Tigers to a victory over Southwest Baptist in the final home game of the season.
Ollison had spent the previous six years working at Versailles High School, including serving as the head softball coach in 2020 and 2021. In each of those years, Versailles broke the school record for victories in a single season, with Ollison and his staff earning the Tri-County Conference Coaching Staff of the Year award following each season. Ollison, who simultaneously organized and managed all of the Morgan County Athletic Club's youth programs, finished his tenure at Versailles with a 34-20 record.
From 2017 through 2022, Ollison also served as the head baseball coach at Versailles, leading the program to its first ever district runner-up finish in 2021. Ollison previously was the head baseball coach at Benton County R-IX in Warsaw, Mo. in 2016 as well as the head baseball coach at Greenridge High, where he took a team that had won just four games in 2013 and led the program to district runner-up finishes in 2014 and 2015.
In 2005, Ollison created the Mid-Missouri Crawdads Baseball Club, a semi-professional organization in St. Elizabeth, Mo. Ollison was the general manager and head coach for three years, leading the club to a second place result at the 2006 United States Baseball Congress World Series. In all three of those seasons, the Crawdads were ranked among the top-25 in the country by the National Semi-Pro Baseball Association.
A 2000 graduate of Lincoln University with a bachelor's degree in business administration, Ollison earned All-MIAA honors while playing for the Blue Tigers. Ollison got his coaching start at his alma mater, serving as the team's hitting coach in 2001 and 2002. The Blue Tigers had a team batting average higher than .330 both years, with the 2002 team's .340 average ranking as the 13th-best in NCAA Division II.
In addition to his many years as a baseball and softball coach in mid-Missouri, Ollison also has won four district championships as a high school basketball coach. Ollison has been voted the "Best Local Coach" by Missouri's Best Magazine each of the past five years and, in 2015, was inducted into the Semi-Pro Baseball Hall of Fame.
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