Last week began a new era for the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns softball team with Gerry Glasco named the head coach last Monday. It’s safe to say he wasted no time getting his coaching staff together.
Glasco introduced his coaching staff on Monday evening at a team meeting. The staff includes assistant coaches Ellen Renfroe Reed and Joe Guthrie, volunteer assistant Courtnay Foster and director of operations Jon Reed. Their hiring is currently pending approval by the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors.
“I’m extremely excited about our staff. I wanted to combine experience with youth and enthusiasm,” Glasco said in a statement released by the University. “I also sought coaches who had played at the highest level, experienced the World Series and played for great coaches. I believe that all of the traits we were looking for in a staff, we were able to find.
“Three of our staff members have been a head coach at some point in their career, which I felt was important as I launch my head coaching career,” Glasco added. “And we prioritized pitching, as one of our keys here is to develop our pitchers at a really high level.”
Renfroe Reed, who was recently the head coach at Bethel (Tenn.) College will serve as the pitching coach for the Cajuns. This was a role that she took on over at Memphis, helping lower the pitching staff’s ERA by over a full run.
Guthrie has experience with Glasco, coaching alongside him with the Scrap Yard Dawgs of the National Pro Fastpitch League in 2017. During his time at Penn State, the offense broke over 30 program records.
Foster had spent the last two seasons with Bucknell, amassing a 50-43 record.
-Clint Domingue