Softball Head Coach - Leslie Huntington

Leslie Huntington

Leslie Huntington enters her third season as head coach of the Blugolds. In two seasons Huntington has posted an overall record of 35-37 while going 17-9 in Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) play.

Despite having a three-game advantage in the loss column over its next-closest opponent in 2002, inclement weather forced the cancellation of several conference games, which prevented the Blugolds from playing in enough games to qualify as conference champions. At the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament the Blugolds advanced to the tournament final.

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 6/18/03