Midway College Women's Softball

Brent Aldridge is entering his 1st season as the Interim Woman's Softball Coach at Midway University for the 2026-2027 School year. Aldridge continues to serve at Midway, previously being the assistant coach for the softball team since 2025, where he has coached an NAIA Third-Team All-American as well as a River States Conference First Team All-Conference player. Aldridge started his coaching career in 2005 at the travel ball level with the Central Kentucky Batcats. He would stay with the organization until 2012. Aldridge started his high school coaching career in 2007 when he was an assistant at Anderson County High School in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. During his time at Anderson County, he assisted with the JV and freshman teams and helped lead Anderson County to its first state tournament appearance in 2008. After seven years as an assistant, he was promoted to head coach in 2014. He would serve two stints from 2014-17 and then again from 2021-25. During his combined eight seasons, he had a record of 202-80 (.716), won five district titles and four regional titles, and finished fourth in the Kentucky State Tournament in 2015. He was also named Region Coach of the Year eight times. In addition to his own honors, he coached several all-district, all-region and all-state student-athletes.      

Krae Kelso has been with the Midway University Sprint Football Team since its inception in 2022. He was officially named the program's head coach in January of 2025 after previously serving as the interim head coach. He began his career at Midway as the defensive back’s coach before taking over as the offensive coordinator for the past two seasons, helping four players earn All Midwest Sprint Football League honors on the offensive side of the ball.  Prior to joining the coaching ranks, Kelso was a high school quarterback in Kansas City, Mo. where he won the Frank Fontana Award, which is given to the best high school football player in the Kansas City Metro area for classes 1-4. He finished his career at Dakota College at Bottineau (N.D.) where he helped lead the Lumberjacks to an 8-3 record with a No. 12 ranking and Graphic Edge Bowl Appearance. Kelso holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences from the University of North Texas and completed General Studies at Dakota College at Bottineau.    

Jack Russell began his first season on the Midway University coaching staff in 2024.   Russell comes from Westminster College (Mo.) where he was the defensive coordinator for the 2023 season. His defense ranked at the top of the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) in both passing defense and red zone defense while tying for the most defensive touchdowns scored. His defense also produced four All-Conference selections including first-team standout linebacker Dawson Brandt.   Before his time at Westminster, he was the linebackers coach at Illinois College which was a part of a very successful system that had multiple national rankings.   Prior to Illinois College he was at Missouri Baptist University for a total of five seasons, where he served as a player, student-coach, graduate assistant, linebackers coach and strength and conditioning coordinator in his time there.   Russell has a bachelor’s degree in Sport Management with a minor in Business Administration from Missouri Baptist.