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Laura Berg
Position: Center Field – L/L Hometown: Santa Fe Springs, CA
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Crystl Bustos
Position: 3B – R/R Hometown: Canyon Country, CA School: Palm Beach CC
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Lisa Fernandez
Position: RHP Hometown: Long Beach, Calif. School: UCLA
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Andrea Duran
Position: 3B/Outfield – R/R Hometown: Selma, Calif. School: UCLA
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Jo Evans
With Evans at the helm, A&M has advanced to the postseason eight times with six straight appearances since 2002, including two consecutive trips to the Women’s College World Series in 2007 and 2008, including a runner up finish and a final No. 2 ranking in the national polls. A 17-1 league record and two conference trophies in ‘08 earned Evans her third Big 12 Coach of the Year honor. Evans came to Texas A&M in 1996 with 11 years of collegiate coaching experience and an adeptness and capacity to build winning programs. Evans began her head-coaching career at Colorado State University in 1986, following two seasons as an assistant coach at Florida State. Evans returned home, to Utah, in 1991 to take over her alma mater. As a player at Utah, Evans earned High Country All-Conference Honors in 1982 as she led the team to a World Series appearance. She also was named as an ASA All-American in Women’s Class-A Nationals. In her career Evans has racked up 782 wins to 443 losses and two ties, good for a .639 winning percentage. She advanced to postseason play 13 times and holds five regular season conference titles and three postseason titles. |
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Joy Jackson
Joy Jackson is beginning her 13th season with the softball program after being promoted from assistant coach to associate head coach in 2004. She joined head coach Jo Evans in the trek from Utah to Aggieland in the summer of 1996 after serving one year as a full-time assistant coach for Evans and the Utes. Jackson is responsible for coaching the outfielders, base running and lefty slap at A&M. In addition, Jackson is the recruiting coordinator and manages administrative duties. During her tenure at A&M, 15 Aggie outfielders have been voted to the All-Big 12 Conference team by the league coaches, including the entire 2004 and 2005 Aggie outfield. In 1991, Jackson served as an assistant softball coach at Murray High School, in Murray, Utah.After helping the Spartans reach the Utah High School State Tournament in her first season, Jackson was promoted to head coach in 1992.Jackson served as an assistant coach at Illinois State from 1993-95. In her final season before returning to Utah, Jackson helped lead Illinois State to the Missouri Valley Conference title, as well as a berth in the NCAA tournament for the first time in seven years. A four-year letter winner at Utah from 1986-89, Jackson played both third base and outfield during her career. As a sophomore, she helped lead the Utes to the 1987 High Country Athletic Conference title and secure a trip to the NCAA tournament. Jackson was voted team captain as a senior and also was named to the all-region first team. |
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Amy Hogue
She helped the University of Utah softball team reach new heights as a player and now Amy (Timmel) Hogue will lead the Utes from the bench as the program’s fifth head coach. Hogue played for the Utes from 1991-94 and earned second team All-America honors as a senior. In garnering All-America accolades, she hit .455, had 101 hits, 222 at bats and 55 runs scored. All of those numbers still stand as the school’s top marks for a single season. Hogue also holds season records for triples (7) and runs scored (55). She led both the 1991 and 1994 squads to the College World Series. Her playing career at Utah was equally as impressive. As a player, she helped the Utes win two conference titles, two conference tournaments and two regional titles in making two Women’s College World Series appearances. She captained the 1994 squad that tallied a school-record 51 wins. Her 101 hits in a season was one of the longest-standing marks in the NCAA, and she still holds the NCAA record for at bats in a game (14). |
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Tina Johnson
Prior to joining Weber State, Johnson spent two seasons at Colorado College–taking over a program that historically struggled and building a strong foundation for athletic and academic success. Prior to her stint with the Tigers, she was the head coach at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Ill. for three seasons. At Lake Forest, she led the program to three-straight Midwest Conference championships and put together a .641 winning percentage. She was honored with the 2006 Midwest Conference Coach of the Year award. Prior to Lake Forest, Johnson was at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., where she was the head softball coach. In addition to her collegiate career, Johnson spent several years coaching at the high school level and in the American Softball Association junior competitive ranks. She led her Lafayette High School (Wildwood, Missouri) team to a 4A State Championship in 1997. She was named the Missouri State Softball Coach of the Year and earned the Suburban West Softball Coach of the Year honor for three-consecutive seasons (‘95-’97). As a player, Johnson competed at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri and at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences in 1990. She earned her master’s degree in Educational Administration from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. |
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