Softball Head Coach - Leslie Huntington

Leslie Huntington

Leslie Huntington enters her fourth season as head coach of the Blugolds. Huntington was named 2004 WIAC Coach of the Year after leading the Blugolds to their first conference title since the 2000 season. Huntington also serves as an athletic trainer, sports camp coordinator and senior women's administrator (SWA) at UW-Eau Claire.

Huntington has posted a career record of 61-54 including a 30-13 (.700 winning percentage) mark in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC). During that stretch Huntington has coached one All-American, four All-Region and seven first team All-WIAC performers.

Huntington was the first assistant for Henry Christowski when Simpson College of Indianola, Iowa won the 1997 and 1999 NCAA Division III softball national championships and placed third in the 1996 and 1998 tournaments.

Huntington's fulltime position in Blugold athletics includes serving as the Director of Sports Camps, Assistant Athletic Trainer and Lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology. She was the head athletic trainer at Simpson College for six years. During that time she earned her master's degree from Iowa State University in health and human performance with an emphasis in sports administration.

Huntington was a two-sport athlete at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. As a senior in 1992, she played first base on Buena Vista's NCAA Division III national runner-up softball team. As a sophomore, she was a member of the Buena Vista basketball team that advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament before losing to eventual national champion Hope College of Michigan. She earned GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-Region honors in softball and was Second Team All-Iowa Conference in basketball.

Following her graduation from Buena Vista in 1992, Huntington spent two years as a certified athletic trainer with the Des Moines Sports Medicine Clinic in Des Moines, Iowa. Huntington also served as the co-head coach of the Nevada Community Schools softball program in Nevada, Iowa during the summer of 2000 and 2001.

Updated 8/18/04