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Selena Collins
| Title: | Head Softball Coach |
| Phone: | 210-999-8023 |
| Email: | Selena.Collins@trinity.edu |
Selena Collins has been the head softball coach of the Tigers since the fall of 2010.
Coach Collins led the team to a second place finish in the SCAC Championship Tournament in 2011. It marked the Tigers' highest showing in years.
Selena Collins was an assistant at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, for two years before joining the Trinity staff.
During her first season at Sam Houston State, the Bearkats, members of the NCAA Division I, increased their team batting average by 22 points, and had seven players earn All-Southland Conference honors. Sam Houston advanced to the semifinals of the Southland post season Tournament, after upsetting the Nos. 3 and 4 seeds.
A 2003 graduate of Texas A&M University, Coach Collins earned a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications. She was a four-year starter for the Aggie softball team from 2000 to 2003. In 2003 she was named the A&M Female Athlete of the Year and received All-American honors in 2002. Coach Collins, a team captain, was also named the 2002 Big 12 Conference Player of the Year, as well as earning Big 12 First Team All-Conference honors for four seasons.
In addition, Coach Collins was a member of the 2001, 2002 and 2003 USA Olympic Elite Softball Team.
Coach Collins concluded her collegiate career as A&M’s all-time leader in RBI and home runs.
She was a graduate assistant coach with the Aggies, and put her communications skills to work as a radio and television commentator for the team with the Aggie Sports Connections.
In 2004, Coach Collins played catcher for the Texas Thunder National Pro Fast-Pitch team. She was a key player for the Chicago Bandits from 2005 to 2006.
While in Chicago, Coach Collins was the softball director for the National Baseball and Softball Academy. She also was color analyst for Comcast Sports television broadcasts of the National Pro Fast pitch league and college softball, while also being a part of a show called "The Selena Collins Show" for TheSoftballChannel.com where she wrote, and interviewed about the game of softball.
A native of Phoenix, Coach Collins returned to her hometown, where she coached JV softball and freshman girls basketball at the Sandra Day O'Connor High School.
Coach Collins' parents were both athletes in college at Northern Arizona University where her dad played football and her mom played tennis. Coach Collins also has an older sister and a younger brother.

