Bowling Green, Ky. — Western Kentucky University Director of Athletics Dr. Wood Selig announced Tuesday that Rachel Lawson has been named the school’s head softball coach.
Lawson was a two-time all-conference player at Massachusetts, where she was part of a program that advanced to the 1992 Women’s College World Series, and has seven years experience as an assistant coach at Maryland.

She inherits a program that has posted four 30-win seasons in its first five years of existence, including a 35-23 record in 2004. The Hilltoppers were 10-9 in the Sun Belt Conference, the first time that Western recorded a winning ledger in league action.

“We feel as if we have landed another young coaching super star in Rachel Lawson,