New Louisville head coach Holly Aprile has filled out her full-time assistant coaching staff, announcing the additions of Griffin Joiner and Ashley Lane as the new Cardinals assistant coaches.
Joiner coached under Aprile at Pittsburgh during the 2018 season, while Lane spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach at Middle Tennessee State.
The position at Pittsburgh was the first of Joiner’s full-time coaching career, as she worked with the Panthers’ pitchers and catchers. A former catcher at Kentucky herself, she helped Giorgiana Zeremenko earn first-team all-region honors from behind the plate, while shepherding the program’s pitching staff to a 3.03 team ERA and an opponent’s batting average of .264.
Lane shepherded the MTSU Blue Raiders’ offense, while also tutoring the program’s infielders, during her time in Murfreesboro. She helped lead the squad to the Conference USA title in 2018 and the program’s first NCAA tournament berth in nearly two decades. The Blue Raiders led Conference USA in seven different statistical categories and set a single-season school record for team batting average. A Michigan alum and two-time all-American, Lane also spent a single season as a volunteer assistant at Kentucky to begin her coaching career.
The pair join Aprile in taking over a Cardinals program that posted a 33-20 overall record on the 2018 season, including a 10-12 mark in ACC matchups. The Cardinals have not made the NCAA tournament since 2016, when they went 0-2 in the Columbia, Missouri regional.
