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Marty Blowers
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Marty Blowers enters her first season at the helm of the Texas Woman’s University softball program. Blowers succeeds long-time Pioneer Dianne Baker who retired after the 2005 season.
Blowers is no stranger to the third base coaching box. She has 12 years of head coaching experience with six years at both the University of Southern Colorado (now Colorado State University-Pueblo) and Sam Houston State.
After joining TWU in December of 2002 as the assistant softball coach and compliance coordinator, Blowers was promoted to Associate head softball coach in October of 2004.
She came to TWU after spending six years as the head coach and compliance coordinator at the University of Southern Colorado (now Colorado State University-Pueblo). Blowers guided the Thunderwolves to its best season in 2001 when the team went 52-12-1, won the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament, and hosted the NCAA Division II South Central Regional Tournament. In her six seasons at USC, Blowers’ teams went 184-133-1 and produced two All-Americans, five All-Region players and 34 All-RMAC honorees. More importantly, Blowers’ clubs have had two academic All-Americans, 14 academic all-conference players, and two Verizon/Phillips 66 Academic Award Winners, one that graduated from USC summa cum laude.
For six years, Blowers was the head coach at Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Texas. While at the helm of SHSU’s program, Blowers led the Ladykats to a 178-152 overall record and a 101-67 mark in the Southland Conference. During her first two seasons at Sam Houston, the Ladykats placed second in the Southland Conference with Blowers’ 1992 squad recording the third-highest win total ever in the program’s 17-year history. That 1992 team also finished the season ranked nationally in pitching (13th), batting (9th), home runs (1st), and stolen bases (5th). From 1990-93, Sam Houston recorded the best conference record of the league’s eight teams, going 60-20 over that three-year span. In 1993, Blowers guided Sam Houston to a 39-15 record, the Southland Conference title and the National Invitational Tournament Championship. She was named the Southland Conference Coach of the Year as her team was ranked nationally in pitching (23rd), win/loss percentage (9th) and double plays (23rd). Over her six seasons at SHSU, Blowers coached 17 all-conference performers, 10 academic All-Americans, two all-region selections, one junior Olympian and a professional softball player.
She also spent two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Hawaii from 1989-90, and at Texas-Arlington from 1985-89.
Blowers received her bachelor’s degree from UT-Arlington in 1986 and master’s degree from Sam Houston State in 1992. As a member of the UT-Arlington softball team, she was twice named All-Southland Conference. She is currently working towards her doctorate in Sports Management at TWU.
An active member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, Blowers has served on the ethics, grant and convention committees. She has also served as a national clinician and speaker as well as the chair of the Southland Conference Softball Committee.
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