Fillies Head Coach
Donna Campbell
Donna Campbell enters her eighth
season at Abraham Baldwin College and her seventeenth year in the coaching
profession. Before coming to ABAC,
Campbell coached nine years on the high school level and has compiled a career
record of 397 wins and 171 losses. On
the high school level her teams captured two GISA State titles while she
coached at Westfield Schools in Perry, Georgia.
Seven years ago, in her
first year as a collegiate coach, her ABAC team went 44-12 and won the 1996
National Junior College Slowpitch Championship.
She was named NJCAA Slowpitch Coach of the Year. In only six seasons as a fastpitch coach,
Campbell has guided her teams to five GJCAA State titles, one District C
championship, and four top 16 NJCAA finishes competing in four National
Tournaments.
Since starting the fastpitch
program, Campbell’s teams have captured the GJCAA State titles five times.
(97,98,00,01, and 02). In 2002, her team
compiled 31 wins and another trip to the NJCAA National Tournament and finished
9th in the Nation. Her team
went 18-2 against the Georgia opponents en route to being the 2002 GJCAA
Fastpitch State Champions. Campbell has been named GJCAA Fastpitch Coach of the
Year five times; 97, 98, 00, 01, 02.
Campbell’s teams have a combined record of 82-12 against the opposing
Georgia Junior colleges. Last season
Coach Campbell won her 200 career game at the collegiate level.
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As a former player for
Sunbelt/ Blaze, Campbell was inducted into the Georgia USSSA Softball Hall of
Fame in 1997 and has been named to All-American teams at past National
Tournaments. Campbell has retired as an
active player following the 2000 Summer season.
Over her coaching career,
Campbell has maintained the philosophy that hard work, commitment, and
dedication produces positive results, but if it’s not fun it’s not worth it.
Campbell has earned an A.A.
degree from Middle Georgia College, a B.S. and Masters Degree in Health and
Physical Education, both from Georgia College and State University. In addition to her position as Head Softball
Coach, Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Health Education at Abraham
Baldwin.
