In the summer of 2024, a sinking Griz softball program received new leadership, replacing its seven-year head coach with Stefanie Ewing, a coach who took a similarly struggling California squad to the brink of a championship.
“For me as a coach, I just believe in inspiring young people and trying to get them to be confident young women,” Ewing said. “That’s why I coach and that’s the plan here, is to teach them fundamental softball and help them grow up and become adults and win some softball games along the way.”
That coaching philosophy has successfully promoted Ewing through a series of coaching jobs at the high school, club, Division II and Division I college level. Ewing also played the game herself, notably representing Greece and her grandfather’s side of the family in the 2004 test Olympics in Athens, a dress rehearsal for the official games…