Alabama head coach Patrick Murphy earned his 1,000th victory as the Crimson Tide head coach in a 5-0 win over Boston College on Friday night.
Murphy, who has been the Alabama head coach for a nearly-uninterrupted twenty years, became the first coach to earn 1,000 victories, all at an SEC program. Murphy has spent his entire head coaching career with the Tide, with the exception of a single season in 1995 when he served as interim head coach at Northwest Missouri State.
The milestone victory came in impressive fashion as senior pitcher Alexis Osorio threw a no-hitter and accumulated eleven strikeouts against the Eagles.
The Tide, under Murphy’s leadership, have reached eleven Women’s College World Series’, most recently in 2016. In addition to five SEC regular-season championships, the Tide won the national championship in 2012, besting Oklahoma in the best-of-three championship series.
Following Murphy’s milestone victory, several legends in the coaching game added their congratulations via social media.
“Well done, Patrick! Congrats!” said legendary Hofstra coach Bill Edwards. Former LSU and Louisiana-Lafayette head coach Yvette Girouard, under whom Murphy’s coaching career began at Louisiana-Lafayette (then known as Southwestern Louisiana), added, “That a boy, Patrick, trailblazer!”
