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Softball Head Coach - Leslie Huntington

Leslie Huntington

Leslie Huntington enters her fifth season as head coach of the Blugolds. Huntington was named 2004 and 2005 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Coach of the Year after leading the Blugolds to back-to-back conference titles in 2004 and 2005. 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 94-65 including a 43-16 (.729 winning percentage) mark in the WIAC regular season games. Huntington's career win total ranks her 15th all-time among WIAC coaches. During that stretch Huntington has coached one All-American, seven All-Region and 10 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.

At Simpson College Huntington was also the head athletic trainer 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 8/30/05