Selena Collins has been the head softball coach of the Tigerssince the fall of 2010.
Coach Collins led the team to a second place finish in the SCACChampionship Tournament in 2011. It marked the Tigers' highestshowing in years.
Selena Collins was an assistant at Sam Houston State Universityin Huntsville, Texas, for two years before joining the Trinitystaff.
During her first season at Sam Houston State, the Bearkats,members of the NCAA Division I, increased their team battingaverage by 22 points, and had seven players earn All-SouthlandConference honors. Sam Houston advanced to the semifinals of theSouthland post season Tournament, after upsetting the Nos. 3and 4 seeds.
A 2003 graduate of Texas A&M University, Coach Collinsearned a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications. She was afour-year starter for the Aggie softball team from 2000 to 2003. In2003 she was named the A&M Female Athlete of the Year andreceived All-American honors in 2002. Coach Collins, a teamcaptain, was also named the 2002 Big 12 Conference Player of theYear, as well as earning Big 12 First Team All-Conference honorsfor four seasons.
In addition, Coach Collins was a member of the 2001, 2002 and2003 USA Olympic Elite Softball Team.
Coach Collins concluded her collegiate career as A&M’sall-time leader in RBI and home runs.
She was a graduate assistant coach with the Aggies, and put hercommunications skills to work as a radio and television commentatorfor the team with the Aggie Sports Connections.
In 2004, Coach Collins played catcher for the Texas ThunderNational Pro Fast-Pitch team. She was a key player for the ChicagoBandits from 2005 to 2006.
While in Chicago, Coach Collins was the softball director forthe National Baseball and Softball Academy. She also was coloranalyst for Comcast Sports television broadcasts of the NationalPro Fast pitch league and college softball, while also being a partof a show called "The Selena Collins Show" forTheSoftballChannel.com where she wrote, and interviewed about thegame of softball.
A native of Phoenix, Coach Collins returned to herhometown, where she coached JV softball and freshman girlsbasketball at the Sandra Day O'Connor High School.
Coach Collins' parents were both athletes in college at NorthernArizona University where her dad played football and her mom playedtennis. Coach Collins also has an older sister and a youngerbrother.
