The San Francisco Giants say they have completed the hiring process for one of the largest (and youngest) coaching staffs in the major leagues.

The club announced Thursday that Alyssa Nakken and Mark Hallberg will round out a 13-person staff as “major league assistant coaches” under first-year manager Gabe Kapler.

Nakken, a Woodland native, was a three-sport athlete at Woodland High School and graduated in 2008.

The hiring of Nakken, a former Sacramento State softball player, is historic as she will be the first female coach in Giants’ history and the first full-time female coach in the majors.

It’s unlikely Hallberg or Nakken will be in uniform during games as MLB teams are limited to seven coaches in the dugout, but in a statement released Thursday, Kapler said the duo “will focus on fostering a clubhouse culture that promotes high performance through, among other attributes, a deep sense of collaboration and team.”

“Alyssa and Mark are highly respected members of the organization and I’m delighted that they will now focus their talents on helping to build a winning culture in the clubhouse,” Kapler said.

As the Giants built out Kapler’s first staff, the club interviewed Rachel Balkovec, who recently joined the New York Yankees organization as a minor league hitting coach. Balkovec is the first woman to be hired as a full-time hitting coach by a MLB franchise, but her interview with the Giants was believed to be the first for a woman in consideration for a job with a major league team.

Nakken was a three-time All-Conference first baseman in the Sacramento State softball program and was her conference’s Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2012. She earned a master’s degree in sports management from the University of San Francisco in 2015 after joining the Giants as an intern in the baseball operations department in 2014.

Prior to accepting a role on Kapler’s staff, Nakken’s roles with the Giants included developing, producing and directing a number of the organization’s health and wellness initiatives and events, including coordinating the Giant Race series.

Nakken joins a slow trickle of women hired by MLB organizations.

In September 2015 the A’s hired Justine Siegal (the first woman to throw batting practice for a major league team) as guest instructor for the club’s 2015 instructional league team.

In March 2019 the Mets hired Jessica Mendoza as baseball operations adviser focusing on player evaluation.

The Yankees hired Rachel Balkovec as a minor league hitting coach in November 2019. She is believed to be the first female full-time hitting coach hired by a major league organization. Shortly after her hiring, the Cubs signed Rachel Folden as lead hitting lab tech and fourth coach for their Rookie League team in Arizona.

Hallberg is a former college teammate of Giants catcher Buster Posey at Florida State who spent the past two seasons working in the Giants’ farm system. Hallberg holds a master’s degree in business administration and most recently worked as the manager for the Giants’ short-season affiliate, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.

Daily Democrat staff contributed to this article.