Fillies Head Coach
Donna Campbell
Donna Campbell enters her fourteenth season at
Abraham
Baldwin
College
and her twenty third 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 576 wins and 333 losses. In twenty three years of coaching, Campbell’s teams have won
7 State titles and 3 State Runner Up titles, and five national tournament
appearances.
Thirteen 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 12 years of coaching fastpitch at ABAC, she has guided her
teams to five GJCAA State titles, two GJCAA State Runner Up finishes, 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). Campbell has been named GJCAA Fastpitch Coach
of the Year five times; 97, 98, 00, 01, 02
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 a
passion for the game she loves so much. Campbell’s philosophy of hard work,
commitment, and dedication to her players and her program have produced
positive results.
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.
Elske enters her second year as an
assistant coach for the 2009 Fillies team where she will be coaching the Fillie
pitching staff.
Elske graduated from Alfrink
in May 1998. While at Alfrink
she played in the highest competitive league in fastpitch.
Elske pitched for the Young Dutch National Team as they gained
three European championships. She has played in World championship tournament in Taiwan and the Kingdom Games in St. Martin and Curaçao.
Elske was a leading pitcher for the ABAC Fillies in 2003 and 2004 and
earned a softball scholarship to attend Valdosta State
University where she
pitched for the Lady Blazers in 2005 & 2006.
She graduated with a Criminal Justice degree in May of 2007 from VSU.
