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Australian Karen Marr new Pitching Coach of the Orange
 Nederlandse tekst
NIEUWEGEIN (Netherlands) -
Australian-born Karen Marr will be the new Pitching Coach of the Dutch National Women Softball Team, effective in January.
With the naming of Karen Marr, Dutch National Team Head Coach Craig Montvidas again added an experienced coach in his staff, who will work with the pitchers and catchers of the National Team in the upcoming months.
In 2011, the Dutch National Softball Team is defending its European title during the European Championship, which will be held in July/August in Italy.
From 2004 through May of 2010, Karen Marr was the Pitching Coach of the softball-team of the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
A wellknown school that is playing in the strong Big East Conference.
With the Cardinals, the softball-team of the University of Louisville, Karen Marr had an important part in the successes of the last years.
In that period, the team climbed as high as fourteenth place in the national Top-25.
In the years that Marr was active in Louisville, eight of her pitchers were named to All-Big East or All-Conference Teams, while two were named All-American.
Furthermore, the team reached the NCAA Tournament in seven consecutive years and her pitchers set a school-record by striking out 457 batters in 2005.
Before coming to America, Karen Marr was the National Battery Development Coach of the Australian Softball Federation.
Between 1994 and 2001, she was the Pitching Coach of several New South Wales State Teams, leading seven of them to a national championship.
Besides that, she also was affiliated with several national Australian teams.
In 1999, Karen was the Battery Coach of the national under-19 team which then participated in the World Junior Championship in Chinese Taipei.
Three years later, Karen participated in the ever-strong Canada Cup, then was the assistant coach in 2004 of the national team that participated in the World University Games.
In 2000, Karen Marr worked as coach for the national Olympic Team of China.
Karen Marr succeeds Nancy Evans, who was the Pitching Coach of the Dutch National Team from February 2009-August 2010.
On August 4, Nancy was named as Pitching Coach of DePaul University in Chicago.
While Nancy was recovering from a knee-injury in November-December 2009, Tracy Bunge took over as Pitching Coach for the Orange, then re-joined the Dutch Team for the World Championship in Venezuela when she, as well as Nancy Evans assisted Montvidas.
Press release with the announcement of Karen Marr's naming as Pitching Coach (in Dutch)
Karen Marr's page on this site
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