Gerry Glasco was named the head coach of the Texas Tech Softball program on Thursday, June 20, 2024.

In Glasco's first season in Lubbock he led Tech to its most successful season ever. The Red Raiders finished with a 54-14 record, the most wins in a single season, while hosting their first ever Regional, advancing to the Super Regional round for the first time ever and eventually making their first Women's College World Series appearance where they finished as National Runners-Up. Glasco also led Tech to its first ever Big 12 Regular Season Title and Postseason Championship in his inaugural season.

The team broke 22 program records during the historic 2025 season and had 10 players earn All-Big 12 honors, the most in program history. Among those student-athletes was Big 12 and National Pitcher of the Year NiJaree Canady who became the first 1st Team All-American in Red Raider softball history. Glasco also earned Big 12 Coach of the Year honors after going 20-4 in conference play, also a program best.

Known for his great recruiting, Glasco has brought in the No. 1 transfer portal class in the country ahead of the 2025 season and again this past summer ahead of the 2026 season.

Glasco previously led the Louisiana softball program where he built the Ragin’ Cajuns into a perennial top-25 team that boasted an impressive .773 winning percentage (300-88) during his seven-year tenure. Louisiana captured five Sun Belt Conference regular-season titles under Glasco and was selected to an NCAA Regional in all six eligible seasons (excludes COVID-shortened 2020 campaign), advancing to the Super Regional round in 2023.

Glasco, who coached the previous nine seasons prior to Louisiana in the Southeastern Conference, is considered one of the nation’s top offensive coaches and recruiters. He helped lead Georgia to a pair of final four finishes at the Women's College World Series, assisted in Texas A&M's rise in the SEC culminating with a trip to Oklahoma City in 2017 and served as associate head coach at Auburn in fall 2017.

Glasco’s résumé includes achievements at all levels of softball. He has coached 17 All-Americans, 29 All-SEC honorees, 37 All-Sun Belt performers, 10 All-Big 12 performers and 52 All-Region selections. As a collegiate coach, he has been a part of 12 NCAA Tournament appearances, six NCAA Super Regionals and three Women’s College World Series. He also engineered three championships in the National Pro Fastpitch League, most recently in 2019 with USSSA Pride, and a national championship at the 18U level in travel ball.

During his tenure at Louisiana, the Ragin’ Cajuns have continued their streak of consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and 40-win seasons, both streaks at 24 straight seasons following the 2023 season.

Glasco's most momentous occasion to date with Louisiana occurred in the 2023 season when the Ragin' Cajuns captured a berth into the NCAA Super Regional round - realizing the accomplishment for the first time in his tenure - following a Championship Sunday doubleheader sweep of rival LSU at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge.

He directed one of the program’s best seasons ever in 2019 as Louisiana recorded its first 50-win season since 2012 (with only four defeats entering NCAA postseason play), swept the Sun Belt Conference’s regular season and tournament championships, boasted a Top 10 national ranking for 10 consecutive weeks leading up to postseason play, turned in only the second undefeated Sun Belt mark in program and conference history, established a school-record 29-game win streak and posted a Top 10 national finish in nine statistical categories.

Glasco and his staff continued building momentum in the COVID-19 shortened 2020 season, leading the program to its first Top 10 finish in the major national polls since 2014. The Ragin’ Cajuns scored ranked wins over Louisiana State, Oklahoma State, Texas and Florida (twice) in addition to two victories over Ole Miss, leading the squad to a No. 1 ranking in the lone RPI ranking of the year.

During the 2021 season, Louisiana reached 40 wins in the regular season by winning 25 of the final 29 games. Glasco steered the squad to repeat honors as Sun Belt regular season and tournament champions highlighted by an 11-1 record, regular season and tournament combined, against the league’s other three NCAA Tournament participants (Texas State, Troy and South Alabama). The Ragin' Cajuns advanced to Championship Sunday of an NCAA Regional for the third time under Glasco's watch, extending the program's streak of reaching the final round of a regional to 13 consecutive appearances.

The 2022 season marked the debut of Glasco's 2021 recruiting class, which was ranked No. 1 by Extra Inning Softball and included the No. 4-rated recruit in pitcher Sam Landry and the No. 15-ranked prospect in Louisiana native Maddie Hayden. Glasco directed and mentored a lineup that featured at most two upperclassmen and as many as five freshmen, and developed them into a championship and NCAA Tournament team - despite the youthfulness, advancing to Championship Sunday of the NCAA Clemson Regional.

The Ragin' Cajuns continued to thrive under Glasco's guidance in 2022, placing a conference-high nine players on the All-Sun Belt team, recording a program-record .351 season batting average and generating the most home runs in Glasco's tenure (82).

During the 2023 season, Louisiana collected its fourth consecutive Sun Belt Conference regular season and tournament championships under Glasco's guidance, posted the program's first 50-win season since 2019 (50-16, 22-2 SBC) and advanced to the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament. The Ragin' Cajuns also continued impressive streaks of consecutive Sun Belt series won (now 81 straight) and consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (now 24 straight) and attained a No. 9 RPI rating and Top 20 rankings across all major national polls.

Louisiana ended the regular season with 43 wins against a Top-10 rated strength of schedule (which finished at No. 7) facing Top 100 RPI competition in 38 out of 56 games overall and captured marquee road wins over UCF (no-hitter), LSU and Florida (three-hit shutout). Individually, Karly Heath and Mihyia Davis earned NFCA All-American accolades and Davis was awarded the NFCA's Golden Shoe Award after leading the D1 softball ranks with 52 stolen bases.

The Crab Orchard, Illinois, native has raised the level of offensive production of each team he’s been associated with since his collegiate coaching career began. He coached at Georgia from 2009-2014 and at Texas A&M from 2015-2017.

Glasco helped Georgia to a 282-92 mark as the team hovered near the top of the NCAA and SEC rankings in almost all offensive categories and set over 20 team offensive records during his six-year stay. The Bulldogs belted 85 home runs his first season (up from 26 the previous season) and later led the SEC in home runs during his final two seasons.

Georgia captured the program’s first SEC Tournament championship (2014) and twice reached the final four of the Women’s College World Series (2009, 2010) with Glasco on staff.

In three seasons at Texas A&M, Glasco restructured the offense and helped guide the Aggies’ rise to the top of the SEC, culminating with a third-place finish in 2017. His clubs tallied 465 extra-base hits, including 213 home runs, and scored 6.1 runs per game. In his final two seasons, the Aggies were the SEC’s home run leaders in regular season conference play.

Eight offensive records were broken under Glasco’s watch at Texas A&M, highlighted by the 2016 season when the Aggies broke school records for runs scored (429); on base percentage (.437); RBI (401); total bases (852); and OPS (.988).

Glasco spent seven seasons as the assistant softball coach at Johnston City (Illinois) High School before taking his first collegiate job at Georgia. In his last season, he led the junior high team to a state title.

During his time at Johnston City High, Glasco founded the Illinois Southern Force Softball organization and served as the head coach of the Southern Force Gold from 2001-2008. The team finished in the Top 20 four times at ASA Gold Nationals and won the 2004 18U Gold National Championship. That year, Glasco and his staff were named the National Coaching Staff of the Year by the NFCA for travel softball.

Glasco and wife Vickie have three daughters who have shared their father's passion for the sport: Tara (Archibald), who is currently the associate head coach for him here at Texas Tech, Erin and the late-Geri Ann who was named Gatorade National Player of the Year her senior year of high school, SEC Freshman of the Year and played both at Georgia and Oregon.

Glasco is a 1976 graduate of Crab Orchard (Illinois) High School, where he lettered in baseball and basketball. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics in 1980.

THE GLASCO FILE
Hometown: Crab Orchard, Illinois
Wife: Vickie
Children: Tara, Erin, Geri Ann
High School: Crab Orchard
College: Illinois, 1980

COACHING TIMELINE
2022-23: WPF Smash It Sports Vipers (Head Coach)
2019: NPF USSSA Pride (Head Coach)
2018-present: Louisiana (Head Coach)
2017: Auburn (Associate Head Coach)
2017: NPF Houston Scrap Yard Dawgs (Head Coach)
2015-17: Texas A&M (Associate Head Coach)
2014: NPF USSSA Pride (Head Coach)
2012-14: Georgia (Associate Head Coach)
2009-11: Georgia (Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator)
2008: Johnston City (Illinois) High School (JV Head Coach)
2002-08: ASA 18U Southern Force Gold (Head Coach)
2000-04, 2007-08: Johnston City (Illinois) High School (Varsity Assistant Coach)

TEXAS TECH W-L RECORD
Overall: 54-14 (.794)
Big 12: 20-4 (.833)
NCAA Tournament: 9-2 (.818)

LOUISIANA W-L RECORD
Overall: 300-88 (.773)
Sun Belt: 136-18 (.883)
NCAA Tournament: 17-13 (.567)

OVERALL COLLEGIATE W-L RECORD
(as assistant and head coach)
Overall: 762-247 (.757)
NCAA Tournament: 64-35 (.646)

NCAA POSTSEASON APPEARANCES
Women’s College World Series (4): 2009-2010, 2017, 2025
NCAA Super Regionals (8): 2009-12, 2014, 2017, 2023, 2025
NCAA Tournament Berths (16): 2009-19, 2021-24, 2025

COACHING HONORS
- 2025 Big 12 Coach of the Year
- 2025 NFCA South Region Coaching Staff of the Year (Texas Tech)
- 54-win season most in Texas Tech history
- First national seed, Super Regional, WCWS and Big 12 Title in Texas Tech history
- 2019 and 2021 Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year
- 2019 and 2023 Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA) Coach of the Year
- Four-time Sun Belt regular season and tournament champions with Louisiana (2019, 2021-2023)
- Produced Louisiana's first Top 10 finish in major national polls since 2014 and a No. 1 ranking in NCAA RPI during COVID-19 shortened 2020 season
- Guided Louisiana to only its second undefeated conference mark in program history (25-0 in 2019)
- Top 10 nationally ranked scoring offense and earned run average in 2019 (Louisiana)
- Established school record 29-game winning streak at Louisiana (2019)
- Established school record .351 season batting average at Louisiana (2022)
- Top 25 nationally ranked pitching staff in ERA, shutouts, strikeouts-to-walk ratio in 2022 (Louisiana)
- Top 3 pitching staff total strikeouts (504) in 2022 season (Louisiana)
- Led Louisiana to a return to the NCAA Super Regional round for the first time since the 2016 season (2023)
- Directed Louisiana to a 50-win season facing the nation's the No. 7-rated strength of schedule (2023)
- Finished with a No. 9 RPI and Top 20 ranking across all major national polls in 2023 (Louisiana)
- Top 25 nationally ranked offense in stolen bases, batting average, home runs and scoring (2023)
- Led two SEC programs (Georgia and Texas A&M) to Women’s College World Series
- 2017 NFCA South Region Coaching Staff of the Year (Texas A&M)
- 2014, 2017 and 2019 National Pro Fastpitch League champions
- 20-plus offensive records set at Georgia
- Eight offensive records set at Texas A&M
- Offense led SEC in home runs in 2013-14 (Georgia) and in 2016-17 (Texas A&M)
- Produced 15 All-Americans, 66 all-conference honorees (29, SEC; 37, Sun Belt) and 49 All-Region selections

Name	Title	Phone
Gerry Glasco	Head Coach
Tara Archibald	Associate Head Coach
Jeff Cottrill	Assistant Coach
Shelby Pendley	Assistant Coach

Name	Title	Phone
Tari Moorman	Director of Softball Operations
Tyler Cook	Strength & Conditioning
Aaron Tebo	Executive Director for Academic Excellence / Associate Athletics Director, Academic Advising (Sports Administrator: Track & Field))	(806) 834-0632

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