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Prior to that, she was a graduate assistant coach at Wayne State College in Nebraska. A catcher for University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Bunnell has taken the lead with catcher development at UCCS in addition to assisting in all aspects of student-athlete development with the program. Coach Bunnell takes pride in her communication with student athletes and has used that passion to help with many softball camps and clinics throughout her coaching and playing career.

Through six seasons, Hatting has led the Oles to a record of 154-91 (.629), including a 95-36 (.725) mark in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC). In 2021, St. Olaf won its first MIAC regular season championship since 1996 and made its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since the same year before eventually finishing as the runner-up at the Waverly Regional. Hatting was named the 2021 MIAC Coach of the Year after leading the Oles to the historic season.

The Oles have appeared in the MIAC Playoffs in each of the last five seasons the tournament has been held and were one of the final two teams vying for the conference championship in both 2021 and 2022. St. Olaf has won at least 21 games in each of its six full seasons under Hatting after not having had a winning season since 1998 prior to Hatting's arrival on the Hill.

In her time at St. Olaf, Hatting has coached 20 All-MIAC selections, eight Honorable Mention All-MIAC honorees, 12 NFCA All-Region performers, and three NFCA All-Americans. The program also produced seven College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honorees and its first CSC Academic All-American under Hatting's leadership.

St. Olaf earned its first national ranking from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) at the end of the 2020 season and was ranked in the NFCA Division III Top 25 on 10 occasions during 2021. The Oles peaked at a program-best ranking of No. 13 on March 10, 2021.

Prior to coming to St. Olaf, Hatting spent the previous two seasons as a graduate assistant at NCAA Division II Augustana University in Sioux Falls, S.D. There, she coached the program's catchers and outfielders, helping the Vikings to a NCAA Super Regional appearance in 2015, as Augustana posted a 53-11 record, including a 28-2 mark in league play. In 2016, Augustana was 35-19 and 21-8 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).

Hatting was a two-time captain at Luther where she transitioned from a shortstop in high school to an all-region catcher for the Norse, who reached the NCAA Tournament in each of her four seasons. She earned four letters as Luther won three regular season and four postseason Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (now American Rivers Conference) championships.

A native of LeMars, Iowa, Hatting served as an assistant softball coach for Gehlen Catholic School from 2011-14.

In Graf's first season on the coaching staff, St. Olaf went 21-20 (.512) overall and 14-7 (.667) in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) play while advancing to the semifinals of the MIAC Playoffs. Five Oles earned All-MIAC honors, two were Honorable Mention All-MIAC honorees, and three were named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Region Teams.

The most decorated student-athlete in program history, Graf was a two-time NFCA All-American and four-time All-MIAC honoree during her five-year career at St. Olaf from 2016-21. She returned to the Hill after spending the 2021-22 academic year as a graduate assistant coach for the softball program at Alfred University in Alfred, N.Y.

Over her five-year career as an Ole, Graf went 80-36 with a 1.37 earned-run average in 137 appearances (106 starts), striking out 1,236 batters in 719.0 innings in the circle. She threw 70 complete games, 22 shutouts, and eight no-hitters, while holding opponents to a .156 batting average. Graf concluded her career as St. Olaf’s all-time leader in most major pitching categories, leading the way in wins, appearances, starts, complete games, shutouts, innings pitched, strikeouts, and strikeouts per seven innings (12.04), while ranking third in ERA.

Graf wrapped up her career ranked fifth in NCAA Division III history in strikeouts per seven innings and eighth in strikeouts after ranking in the top-five nationally in both categories in all four of her full seasons. Over her career, she was a four-time NFCA All-Midwest Region selection, a two-time MIAC Pitcher of the Year, a three-time Academic All-MIAC honoree, a two-time College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District ® selection – including being the program’s first CoSIDA Academic All-American ® in 2020 – and was one of 15 finalists for the Schutt Sports/NFCA Division III National Pitcher and Player of the Year award in 2021. Graf was also St. Olaf’s nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year as a fifth-year senior.

After graduating from St. Olaf as an exercise science and psychology double-major, Graf served as a graduate assistant coach at Alfred University during the 2021-22 academic year while studying counseling as a graduate student. She helped the Saxons to their second-straight Empire 8 Tournament title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament, as the team finished 26-16 overall.

A native of nearby Fountain, Colo., Sanders joins the Mountain Lion family after spending the last two seasons as the head softball coach at Fort Lewis College. During his two-year stint at FLC, Sanders steered the Skyhawks to a 43-57 overall record and a 41-41 record in RMAC action, leading the program to an appearance in the RMAC Tournament following the 2022 regular season. With Sanders at the helm, the Skyhawks softball program totaled ten All-RMAC selections, eight RMAC All-Academic honors, and three CSC Academic All-District awards.

In addition to his success on the diamond at Fort Lewis, Sanders worked diligently to develop strong community engagement and support in the Durango, Colo., area for the Skyhawk softball team. In two years, he managed to fundraise $65,000 for the program, facilitated the installation of a new fence and batting cage for the institution’s softball facility, and secured multi-year partnerships with both Mizuno and Oakley.

Prior to being hired as the head softball coach at FLC in July of 2021, Sanders served as the head coach of the softball program at Otero Junior College for five years, leading the Rattlers to five winning seasons, four postseason berths, and an impressive overall record of 117-85. While at Otero, Sanders coached his student-athletes to nine NJCAA Region 9 All-Region honors and six NJCAA All-America accolades while helping 26 athletes move on to play at NCAA four-year institutions. Sanders led the Rattlers into the NJCAA national rankings in two separate seasons, surging as high as No. 14 during the 2018-19 season.

In his final season with the Rattlers in 2020-21, Sanders had his team firing on all cylinders on the field and in the classroom, finishing the season ranked inside the top-25 in the nation for multiple team statistical categories, including batting average (.423 – 3^rd), on base percentage (.491 – 6^th), slugging percentage (.687 – 10^th), doubles (108 – 10^th), triples (24 – 6^th), extra-base hits (176 – 24^th), and stolen bases (171 – 7^th), while also ranking top-five in the nation with a 3.71 team GPA.

Before beginning his coaching career, Sanders played his prep baseball locally at Fountain Fort Carson High School from 2008-11 before moving on to play collegiately at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C. After one season with the Panthers, Sanders returned to his home state to finish his collegiate baseball career at Colorado State University Pueblo, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in May 2016 and his Master of Business Administration in May 2021.