announced Kat Ihlenburg was named Head Softball Coach for their new team scheduled to take to the field in 2013.
Ihlenburg played catcher and outfield at Barry University in Miami Shores, FL where she helped take the Buccaneers to the 2002 Division II College World Series. After graduating from Barry in 2004, Ihlenburg went on to coach at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Ga. She's spent the past seven years at the College of Charleston as an assistant to Head Coach Shelly Hoerner – for whom she played under at Barry.
“Kat has been a top assistant at the College of Charleston and led their program to great success in recent years,” said GGC Director of Athletics Darin Wilson in a release. “The most impressive thing about her is that she knows exactly how to build this program from a community standpoint, an academic standpoint, and how to help us compete nationally.”
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“National championships are in our future,” Ihlenburg said in a release. “That is the bar that has been set by the administration at GGC, and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I expect to be a team to be reckoned with regionally in the NAIA within four years, and a program with a national profile of success within eight years.”
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