New Assistant Coach Brings Playoff Experience to Softball Team
9/4/2002 8:00:00 AM | Softball
Sept. 4, 2002
College Park, Md. - Former Michigan State assistant coach Julie Hudson joins Gina LaMandre's coaching staff as an assistant coach this season. Hudson comes to Maryland after five years as Michigan State's assistant coach and co-director of camps. Her responsibilities will include developing players and coordinating team travel, as well as other administrative duties.
"I'm really excited to work for a university with such a great academic reputation and successful athletic program as Maryland has," Hudson said.
Before coaching at Michigan State, Hudson served as an assistant coach at Princeton and Missouri. In her two years with each program, she helped guide the teams to College World Series appearances. During her playing days at Bowling Green, Hudson captained her team and led it to a MAC championship in 1993. Hudson graduated from Bowling Green in 1993 with a B.S. in health education and recently received her certificate of gerontology from Michigan State.
Hudson looks forward to using the new softball complex as a recruiting tool. "The new facilities should allow us to get the players we need to compete throughout the region and ACC on a continual basis," said the coach.
