Our Lady of the Lake University - 2011-12 Softball Coaches

2011-12 Softball

Record: 29-17 Home: 18-3 Away: 9-12 Neutral: 2-2 RRAC: 18-6

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2011-12 Softball Coaches

James Kling - Head Coach - 2nd Season

James M. Kling is now in his second season in charge of the OLLU softball team. During his first campaign at the helm of the Saints, Kling lead the team to a third place finish in the Red River Athletic Conference Tournament after a 16-5 conference record. Four of his athletes, Kaitlyn Bourg, Hannah Godina, Brooke Hernandez and Tiffany Stritz, were named to the RRAC All-Conference Team. Godina was also named Newcomer of the Year.

Kling served three years as a volunteer assistant and three years as a full-time assistant at the St. Mary's University in San Antonio prior to his arrival at OLLU. His teams have reached the regional tournament five of those six years and the Elite Eight in 2005. Thirty student-athletes he has helped coach have earned All-Heartland Conference honors and 10 have been named All-American.

At St. Mary's University, Kling also was the head cross-country coach. During his first season, he led the team to a third-place finish at the conference championship tournament. His cross-country team had the highest grade point average of all athletic teams at St. Mary's.

Kling graduated cum laude from the University of the Incarnate Word with a Bachelor of Business Administration in management. He has two daughters, Kym and Kathryn.

Lorena Reyes - Assistant Coach - 2nd Season

Lorena "Lori" Reyes came to Our Lady of the Lake University from Midwestern State University and Frank Phillips College, where she served as an assistant. Her primary responsibilities were outfield instruction and recruiting. Reyes has also been the head coach at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. She spent four seasons there and placed an all-conference selection each year as well as established new individual and team records.

At OLLU she helped coach the Saints to a second RRAC tournament appearance after a 26-20 overall record season.

Before Lincoln, she served as the head coach at Colorado Northwestern Community College for the 2005 season. Prior to CNCC, she served as the graduate assistant at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK). Her responsibilities included overseeing the academic progress of the student-athletes, as well as outfield and hitting instruction. In her first season she helped TAMUK to a third place finish in the NCAA South Central Regional Tournament with a 35-21 overall record and ranked as high as 18th in the nation in NCAA Division II. In her second season, TAMUK posted another 30-plus win season with a mark of 31-24. Reyes also served as an instructor in the Health and Kinesiology Department and earned her Master of Science in Kinesiology from TAMUK in June 2004.

Reyes spent two seasons as the head softball coach at Lake Sumter Community College (LSCC) in Leesburg, Fla. As concerned about her athlete's performance off the field as on, Reyes had two players that earned Academic All-America honors for LSCC. Her experience at the high school level came during the academic years of 1998 through May 2000 when she was the head softball coach at Onate High School in Las Cruces, N.M., where she was named District 1-4A Coach of the Year for the 1999 season.

Reyes spent her playing career at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M.. She was a four-year letter winner as an infielder at NMSU from 1993-1997. She holds the record for most put outs in a single game (17) vs. California State-Fullerton, and helped establish the Roadrunners (now Aggies) as a competitive program with a national ranking of No. 23 in NCAA Division I both her junior and senior years.

Reyes earned her Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Language in 1997 and immediately began coaching her former teammates as an assistant coach at NMSU during the 1997-98 academic year.

Reyes has served as an instructor at several camps and clinics across the southwest including Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado as well as in Missouri and Florida.

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