Softball
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- tudora@ipfw.edu
- Phone:
- 481-6910
Coming off of the program's first NCAA Tournament berth, head coach Amy Tudor, entering her fifth year at the helm of the program, looks to keep making strides with the Mastodons.
In her four seasons, Tudor has an overall record of 136-64-1, and with the team's win in the Summit League Championship Game in 2013, she became the program's career wins leader.
In just four seasons, her teams have set single-season records in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs scored, hits, home runs, RBI's, total bases, walks, times hit by pitch. Individually she has seen new school records in slugging percentage, hits, runs, home runs, RBI's, total bases, walks, and times hit by pitch.
She has coached nine Summit League first team All-League selections, eight second-team All-League honorees, and 13 players who have been named to the All-Tournament Team. Among the highlited honorees include 2010 Summit League Pitcher of the Year Courtney Cronin, and 2011 Summit League Newcomer of the Year and 2013 Summit League Tournament MVP Ashleigh Bousquet. Additionally, two players, Cronin and Alex Bousquet, have earned All-Region honors.
Before coming to IPFW, Tudor had been the head coach at Belmont University, in Nashville, Tennessee, where she helped lead the program to 36 wins, the fifth most in program history, and 11 Atlantic Sun victories, most by a single coach since Belmont joined the league in 2001.
In her last season the Petersburg, Tennessee, native helped led the Bruins to an 8-5 record to open the season, including a five-game win streak, the school's longest winning streak since 1999. Unfortunately for the squad, their pitching ace went down with injury after the 13th game, and the team struggled to maintain its momentum, ending the season with an 11-35 record, including going 3-17 in the A-Sun.
Prior to arriving at Belmont, Tudor was the head coach at Division III Ohio Wesleyan University, where she helped guide the Battling Bishops to the regular season North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) title in her first season. She helped develop the school's first-ever Pitcher of the Year in 2005, and Player of the Year in 2006, as the squad finished as the conference's tournament runner-up in each of her two seasons. Over her two seasons in Delaware, Ohio, she compiled a 45-33 record.
Before Ohio Wesleyan, Tudor was a graduate assistant coach at North Alabama, while earning a Master of Arts degree in counseling. She is a 2002 graduate of Western Kentucky, where she was a two-year team captain, helping the program get off the ground as a member of the school's inaugural softball squad. A collegiate catcher, she held the school record by throwing out 23 runners attempting to steal in 2002, and her 216 putouts in that same season still ranks eighth on the WKU season records list.
In addition to her prowess on the field, she was equally as strong off of the field, where she was named an All-American Scholar, recipient of the Commissioner's List Award, a member of the Golden Key Honor Society, and was a six-time member of the Dean's List at WKU.
