Tina Plew Whitlock

Current British National Team Coach. Recently won The Bronze medal at the 2017 European Games in Bollate, Italy. Qualifying for the 2018 World Games in Tokyo Japan. Team GB placed 11th in 2018 World Games.

Promoted to coach Pitchers and catchers with 19U British team alongside women’s team summer of 2018. Teams will participate in The London Cup, European Games, World Games and Super Six qualifier in Holland.

The former (2016) Gamecock volunteer coach and two-time All-American for the Garnet and Black has been a head coach at the NCAA Division II level the past seven years, including three at Lander in Greenwood, S.C., and four at Le Moyne in Syracuse, N.Y. She led the Le Moyne Dolphins to the NCAA National Tournament in her first year at the school in 2009, helping Two Dolphins earn Northeast 10 Conference Player of the Year and attain NFCA All-America third-team accolades. In her four years, she saw 17 students claim All-Northeast 10 honors, including five on the league's first team.

Whitlock played four years at South Carolina, garnering All-America recognition in 1995 and 1997. She still holds the career record for at-bats (872), doubles (58) and sacrifice flies (16) for a Gamecock. She earned all-region accolades all four seasons and was recognized on the first All-Southeastern Conference team in 1997. A second-team All-American that year, she helped the Gamecocks make their third NCAA Women's College World Series appearance with a 63-5 record.

Whitlock continued her career on the diamond as a member of the US Women's National Team, playing on the team that qualified for the 1999 Pan-Am Games. Whitlock also played with the Durham Dragons in the Women's Professional Softball League in 1999.

She started her coaching career at what is now USC Upstate as an assistant coach, moving to Chattanooga for the 2000 season where she helped the Mocs make the NCAA Tournament. She chose to coach in high schools for the next few years in Georgia before moving back into the college ranks as an assistant at Mercer in 2007.