BYU head coach Gordon Eakin finished his 9th season as the Cougars’ head coach and his 12th season at BYU overall in 2011.

Eakin was named head coach in July 2002 after working as an assistant coach since the softball program’s inception in 2000. Since that time he has led the Cougars to five Mountain West Conference championships and seven NCAA tournament appearances.

The MWC Coach of the Year three straight years (2009, 2010, 2011) Eakin has coached nine All-Americans, seven MWC Players of the Year, three MWC Freshmen of the Year and two MWC Pitchers of the Year during his tenure.

In 2010, Eakin guided the Cougars to 46 wins, the most in school history, as BYU advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals for the first time ever with wins over East Carolina and host Texas before ending its season at national runner-up Arizona. The Cougars finish second in the country in batting average, seventh in scoring and ninth in slugging percentage as a team last season.

Known as one of the best hitting coaches in the country, Eakin has helped BYU finish in the top-ten nationally six times in slugging percentage, six times in home runs per game, four times in batting average and four times in scoring.

In addition to his duties at BYU, Eakin has also been an assistant coach and the hitting coach for the USA National Team since 2009. In the summer of 2010, Eakin helped guide the National Team to a 17-2 record as USA won the World Championship in Venezuela, the World Cup in Oklahoma and the Japan Cup championship in Sendai, Japan.

Before entering the coaching ranks, Eakin was a successful baseball and softball player. After playing collegiate baseball at the University of Utah, Eakin signed with the Oakland Athletics organization where he played for three years.

Eakin went on to join the United States All-Star team, playing in three U.S. Olympic sports festivals in 1986, 1993 and 1994, winning bronze, silver and gold, respectively. While on the team, Eakin was honored on the ISC All-World First Team and was an ASA All-American. He would later go on to play shortstop on the internationally ranked Larry H. Miller Toyota Fast Pitch team, eventually earning induction into the Utah Fast Pitch Hall of Fame in 1998.

Eakin is a native of Holladay, Utah, and graduated from Granite High. He currently resides in Sandy, Utah, and is married to Barbi. They are the parents of three children (Alicia, Ryan & Parker) and have four grandsons.

Coach Eakin at a Glance

• Record of 371-160 (.699) in his ninth year as head coach
• USA National Team hitting coach
• Highest winning percentage in MWC history in MWC games (.750) and overall.
• Guided BYU to five Mountain West Conference championships in the last seven years (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011) while never finishing lower than third in the conference
• Three-time MWC Coach of the Year (2009, 2010, 2011)
• Led BYU to first-ever NCAA Super Regional appearance in 2010 and seven-straight NCAA tournament appearances overall
• Coached 9 All-Americans
• Coached 7 MWC Players of the Year, 3 MWC Freshmen of the Year and 2 MWC Pitchers of the Year
• Coached 17 All-Region and 22 All-MWC performers
• Guided BYU to top-ten national finishes in slugging percentage six times, home runs per game six times, batting average four times and scoring four times
• Coached two players who would go on to play professionally, including MWC Player of the Year Angeline Quiocho who finished first in the nation in home runs per game and RBI per game in 2010

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