Sarah Dawson
American sports coach
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| Intro | American sports coach | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Sports coach | |
| Work field | Sports | |
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| Birth | 22 January 1975, San Diego, USA | |
| Age | 49 years | |
| Star sign | Aquarius |
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Biography
Sarah N. Dawson (born January 22, 1975) is an American softball coach and former player. She attended Christian High School San Diego in El Cajon, California, where she played softball for her mother, legendary California high school softball coach Roma Dawson. She later attended the University of Louisiana at Monroe, where she was an All-American pitcher for the Northeast Louisiana Indians softball team. After graduating from college, Dawson played three years of professional softball for the Orlando Wahoos/Akron Racers franchise of National Pro Fastpitch. Dawson served as an assistant softball coach at Marshall University and the University of Louisiana at Monroe, before serving as the head softball coach at Louisiana Tech University from 2003 to 2012. While head coach at Louisiana Tech, Dawson compiled a record of 221–338, and led the Lady Techsters to a WAC conference championship and a berth in the 2008 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters (Western Athletic Conference) | |||||||||
| 2003 | Louisiana Tech | 16–42 | 6–14 | 5th | |||||
| 2004 | Louisiana Tech | 27–33 | 10–11 | 4th | |||||
| 2005 | Louisiana Tech | 18–49 | 2–16 | 7th | |||||
| 2006 | Louisiana Tech | 18–31 | 6–11 | 6th | |||||
| 2007 | Louisiana Tech | 22–38 | 3–15 | 7th | |||||
| 2008 | Louisiana Tech | 37–29 | 7–10 | 4th | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2009 | Louisiana Tech | 15–23* | 9–8* | 4th | |||||
| 2010 | Louisiana Tech | 26–21 | 11–10 | 4th | |||||
| 2011 | Louisiana Tech | 17–39 | 6–15 | 6th | |||||
| 2012 | Louisiana Tech | 25–33 | 8–12 | 6th | |||||
| Louisiana Tech: | 221–338 | 68–122 | |||||||
| Total: | 221–338 | ||||||||
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* Louisiana Tech vacated 19 wins (including 3 WAC games) in 2009 by NCAA action.