Karen Mullins
Karen Mullins
Karen Mullins is an American college softball coach, most recently the long-time head coach of the Connecticut Huskies softball team. She served in that role from 1984 to 2014. She announced her retirement on May 19, 2014...
freshmen graduated graduation heading knew last needed pleased season seniors seven step
We're very pleased with our rookies. We graduated seven seniors last year, and we knew heading into the season that some of our freshmen needed to step up.
against ball command needed pitches talked
Her pitches were up. We talked about how the ball needed to be down against this club. She wasn't in command of her pitches.
broken four game pressed three
We had so many opportunities today. And we just pressed at the plate. There were three or four times where we could have broken the game open.
hoping kids settle work
We had kids ready, but we were hoping she'd settle down and work through things.
ahead count starting talked year
We've talked all year about being consistent. And now they're starting to do that. They're getting ahead in the count more often, and that makes a big difference.
fell pitches recognized
She wasn't real sharp. She was up a little bit, but she recognized that her pitches were way up. Once she got back down, things fell into place.
entire game hard
She competed hard the entire game and pitched really competitively for us. You could really see at the end of the game the competitiveness was really high.
ahead hit practice preach white
We preach being ahead in counts. It's frustrating, that every day in practice we hit our spots, then we come out here, and there's no transfer. Some of that is youth, but we have to be able to do it between the white lines.
brings confidence energy plug spark
Jillian is such a spark plug for us. She brings a lot of energy and confidence to the team.
bring clearly facing game prepared teams top
Clearly we're facing two of the top teams in the Big East. We have to bring our 'A' game and be prepared to play some ball.