Sport(s) | Softball |
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Current position | |
Title | Head Coach |
Team | Lamar |
Conference | Southland Conference |
Record | 105–115(.477) |
Biographical details | |
Alma mater | Alma College |
Playing career | |
1996–1999 | Alma College |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1999–2000 | Albion College (asst.) |
2001 | Bluffton College (asst.) |
2002–2007 | Denison University |
2008–2011 | Morehead State |
2012–present | Lamar |
Head coaching record | |
Overall |
Overall 365-315(.537) NCAA DI 220–211(.510) NCAA DIII 145–105(.580) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
NCAC Regular Season Championship 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008 NCAC Tournament Championship 2002, 2006 |
Holly Bruder is an American college softball coach. She currently serves as head coach of NCAA Division I Lamar University softball team. She has been head coach as Lamar since the program was restarted in 2012. From 2008 to 2011, she served as head coach at NCAA Division I Morehead State. Prior to the seasons at Morehead State, she served as head coach at NCAA Division III Denison University for six years (2002–2007). Before her head coaching assignments, Bruder was assistant coach at Bluffton College in 2001 after beginning her college coaching career as an assistant coach at Albion College (1999–2000).
Bruder played softball for Rogers City High School located in Rogers City, Michigan. She was a four-year letterman at Alma College. In 1999, her team advanced to the NCAA Division III College World Series finishing in third place.
Bruder served as Assistant Coach for 2 years (1999–2000) on the Albion College staff serving as assistant softball coach. In 2001, she moved to Bluffton College where she served as Head Coach for the tennis team and Assistant Coach for the softball team.
Bruder served as Head Coach for the Denison University Big Red softball team from 2002 to 2007. She compiled a record of 145-105 at Denison leading the Big Red to four conference regular season titles and two appearances in the NCAA Division III tournament.
In 2008, Bruder took over head coaching duties for the Morehead State Eagles softball team. Her first Eagles team finished in 2nd place in the Ohio Valley Conference, the Eagles's highest finish in the history of the program. Her first two teams at Morehead State set school overall winning records of 34 in 2008 and 35 in 2009. Bruder's overall record at Morehead State from 2008 to 2011 was 115-96.