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Coach Profile

Coaches Profile


 

Fillies Head Coach

Donna Campbell 

 

 

 

Donna Campbell enters her seventeenth season at Abraham Baldwin College and her twenty sixth in the coaching profession.  Before coming to ABAC, Campbell coached nine years on the high school level and has compiled a career record of 631 wins and 409 losses and 488 wins and 329 as ABAC’s Head Coach.  In twenty six years of coaching, Campbell’s teams have won 7 State titles and 3 State Runner Up titles, and five national tournament appearances.

 

Sixteen 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 15 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.


Kim Griffin

Assistant Coach

Kim returns for her third year of assisting Coach Campbell.  She was an assistant coach for the Fillies in 2006-07 as a volunteer assistant.  Coach Griffin is a 2000 graduate of Tift County High School where she was a multi-sport athlete playing softball and basketball for the Lady Devil programs.  Kim signed a national letter of intent to play softball at Georgia Southern University in 2000.  At Georgia Southern, she was a constant in the Lady Eagle infield all four years of her collegiate career. Kim graduated in 2004 with a B.S. in Sports Management. “Campbell:  I am so excited to have Kim back this season to assist me with the coaching duties.  Kim brings many things to ABAC and our softball program.  She has a spirit of competitiveness that is contagious for the young Fillies each Fall.  She challenges the players and motivates them in a way that just makes each player want to get better every day.  Kim loves the game as I do and together we have fun coaching and are looking forward to a great 2012 season.”