Sarah Harman Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 2nd Season

Now in her second season with the WTAMU coaching staff is Sarah Harman. Harman joined the Lady Buff program prior to the 2007-08 academic year as the program's first full-time assistant coach.

She works primarily with the teams pitching staff, planning and implementing the in-season and off-season training of the pitchers and catchers. Other duties and responsibilities include organizing the programs recruiting (prospect database, communication & correspondence, evaluation of skills video and tournaments), organize scouting reports and preparing game information on opponents, directed the leadership of the program by having weekly meetings with the team captains to help guide them with tools on how to be an "effective" team leader, assisted in marketing of home games to generate more attendance and awareness of softball games by designing an overall plan for home stand games (included local sponsors, gate giveaway, on field promotions).

Harman also headed the "Paint the Yard Pink" promotion. A Breast Cancer Awareness Game with the Susan G. Komen of Amarillo. Harman also got the opportunity to assist Head Coach Kevin Blaskowski at the NCAA Division II Regional's and Word Series this past spring.

Harman assisted Blaskowski in all areas of the Regional tournament which included: Umpires meetings, head coaches meeting, monitor team pre-game area, issue game balls, and team awards. At the World series, Harman acted as game liaison for the Mid-Atlantic region representative. She communicated with the teams and head coach on game time, designated warm-up times and locations, as well as any other miscellaneous needs of the team.

Prior to joining the Lady Buff staff, Harman spent two seasons as an assistant softball coach at Norfolk State University. Previously, Harman was a graduate assistant coach at Ball State University, where she worked with the pitchers.

Harman brings a stellar record of experience, including a standout career at Division III Defiance college where she played for four seasons (2000-03). She earned Heartland Collegiate Conference All-Conference first team honors three years she played. A standout pitcher at Defiance, Harman holds school records for strikeouts (381), innings pitched (665 1/3) and games started (103). She is second all-time in wins (39) and third in school history in complete games (72) and shutouts (8). She holds the second, fourth and fifth-highest single-season strikeout totals in the program's history. Harman was a three-time all-conference selection, was named the team MVP her junior and senior seasons, and was named the Defiance Purple and Gold Female Athlete of the Year in 2003.

Harman, who also played volleyball at Defiance, earned her bachelor's degree in sports management with a minor in recreation in 2003. A native of Port Clinton, Ohio, Harman graduated with a master's degree in physical education with an emphasis in sports administration from Ball State in 2005. While at Ball State, Harman was a recipient of the NCAA Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics for the 2003-04 school year.