Grinnell is currently in the midst of a search for an interim head softball coach for the spring 2010 season. The College will conduct national searches to fill the head coaching responsibilities for volleyball and softball, two important intercollegiate sports, after appropriate campus consideration this coming year.
Assistant Coach Kate Gluckman
Kate Gluckman joins the Grinnell College softball program after coming to the school in the fall of 2008.Also the Pioneer women's basketball coach, Gluckman helped build a successful hoops program as an assistant coach at Tufts University.Gluckman had coached at Tufts since 2006. In her first season at the school, the Jumbos compiled an 18-8 mark. Tufts bettered that record this in 2007-08, going 26-4 while advancing all the way to the NCAA Division III National Tournament Elite Eight. The 2007-08 mark is the best in school history.Gluckman also played basketball at Tufts, where she served as team captain in 2003-04 on a squad that went 18-6, the program's best mark to that date. She was a member of the Jumbos' track and field team, as well, and earned All-New England honors in the discus while also collecting academic all-conference honors.
Volunteer Assistant Coach Craig Arendt
18 yr career playing fast-pitch softball for local teams. Coached ASA 12-U and 14-U teams. Coached at Tri-County High School, Thornburg, Iowa and currently an assistant softball coach at Grinnell High School.
1981 Graduate of the University of Iowa. President & CEO of Patriot Bank.
Craig & his wife Judy live in Grinnell - parents of David, a junior at Grinnell High School and Kelsey, a first-year at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln.
