After four successful years in the top spot, Danny Jensen moved to an assistant coaching role at Southwestern in 2025. Jensen, reignited the fire in Spartan softball. A highlight of Jensen's time at the helm of Spartan softball was with the BSN Sports #DunkdChallenge and $10,000 grand prize in this national contest.

Prior to coming to Southwestern, Jensen coached high school softball in Iowa for more than 40 years. Coming into his position at the helm of the Spartans in August 2021, Jensen had an overall coaching record of 828-462.

He was selected district coach of the year eight times and inducted in the Iowa Softball Coaches Hall of Fame in 2015. He served on the all-district and all-state selection committees for several years. Murray, the 20th smallest school in Iowa, developed more than 100 all-state players during Jensen’s reign, and has always played up, battling and many times winning annually against 2A, 3A, and 4A schools.