Tami Loy has been the head  coach of the Southwestern Oklahoma State University softball program since 2000. Since that time, she has successfully elevated the Bulldog program in one of the toughest NCAA Division II leagues -- the Lone Star Conference.

Loy has taken the SWOSU softball program almost from scratch and tuned them into consistent winners and participants in post-season play. Her success is not going unnoticed as indicated by the talented group of freshman recruits and junior college transfers who have signed to continue their playing careers under Loy’s direction.

Her achievements at SWOSU should come as no surprise. As a highly-successful coach at Edmond Santa Fe High School, Loy and her squads were regular fixtures in post-season competition over a seven-year span. Many of her players went on to to play collegiately.

When Loy joined SWOSU, she inherited a group that had won only eight games in the two previous seasons combined. Although Loy’s first team went 5-32, attitudes began to change and players began believing in their new energetic coach. The evidence was clear next season as SWOSU put together one of the most dramatic turnarounds in NCAA Division II, going 28-17 an astonishing improvement of 23 games in the win column. The Bulldogs would make their first of what would be two straight trips to the LSC Post-Season Tournament beginning in 2001 and again in 2002.

A former player at the University of Central Oklahoma, Loy played under longtime coach Dr. Gerry Pinkston. She received her bachelor’s degree in 1989 and her master’s degree from UCO in 1998.

Loy is the parent of one young son, Tyler.

tami.loy@swosu.edu
(580) 774-3226