Former Ole Miss volunteer assistant coach Katie Rietkovich has been named the hitting coach at Minnesota, the school announced on Tuesday.
Rietkovich has served as a part of Mike Smith’s staff in Oxford for three seasons, assisting with the Rebels offense and acting as the team’s first base coach. She was a part of the Rebels’ coaching staff that led the squad to the SEC championship in 2017 and the first Super Regional berth in program history that same year.
Before joining the Ole Miss staff, Rietkovich spent a single season as an assistant coach at Savannah State.
As a player, Rietkovich began her career at Georgia and spent a pair of seasons with the Bulldogs, including as a part of the 2010 Women’s College World Series-reaching squad. She finished her career at South Carolina-Beaufort and Reinhardt University, both NAIA schools.
She’ll take over tutorship of a Minnesota offense that includes two-time Big Ten Player of the Year Kendyl Lindaman. The Gophers hit .287 as a team in 2018, hitting fifty-five home runs; twenty of those longballs belonged to Lindaman. The squad posted an on-base percentage of .375 during the year.
