Former Oklahoma catcher Lea Wodach has been named the new pitching coach at Louisiana-Monroe, the school announced on Thursday.
Wodach spent the 2019 season as a student assistant under Patty Gasso at Oklahoma, after completing her playing career with the Sooners that included a pair of national championships.
A four-year standout during her playing career that stretched from 2015-18, Wodach steadied the Sooners’ pitching staff from behind the plate and played a role in the squad’s back-to-back national titles in 2016 and 2017.
Though a hand injury dampened her impact in her junior season, Wodach ended her career as a .257 lifetime hitter, with twelve home runs and sixty-three walks. She earned all-Region honors in 2016 and was twice named an All-America Scholar Athlete.
Wodach joins Louisiana-Monroe head coach Molly Fichtner as the second former Power Five catcher & Women’s College World Series participant on the Warhawks’ coaching staff. The Warhawks posted a 14-42 overall record on the 2019 season, including a 7-17 mark in Sun Belt conference play. The squad made a run in the conference tournament before falling in the tournament semifinals.
