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Notre Dame’s legendary softball head coach Deanna Gumpf is retiring

Thank you coach Gumpf!

For the last 23 seasons, Notre Dame softball has been coached by [autotag]Deanna Gumpf[/autotag], as she has complied an impressive record of 882-392.

Unfortunately for the Irish, Gumpf has announced that she will be stepping away from coaching and retiring. A streak of 21-seasons where Notre Dame made the NCAA Tournament along with being the winningest coach in any sport in Irish history will leave massive shoes to fill.

Her final season wasn’t the way that she wanted to go out, as the Irish struggled to a 27-23 record and an 8th place tie in the ACC. Gumpf will be remembered for having 13 seasons with over 40 wins as well.

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Alexis Holloway highlighted in hometown collegiate athlete roundup

Notre Dame’s softball captain gets some love from her hometown newspaper.

If you subscribe to your local newspaper, chances are the sports section does a weekly update of area athletes who now play in college. That happened to Notre Dame pitcher Alexis Holloway, who headlined the latest such feature for The Times of Northwest Indiana by virtue of being from Crown Point, Indiana and the 2017 Gatorade Indiana Softball Player of the Year. The story talks about Holloway’s accomplishments on the field and as an aerospace engineering major at Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. Irish coach Deanna Gumpf is depicted in the story as reveling in her two-time captain’s activities away from the team:

“She is amazing – I mean she built an airplane. What she’s doing is extremely rare. I don’t believe there are many people in the country that can do what she’s done.”

To be fair, Gumpf likely referring to the remote-controlled airplane Holloway is building with her group, but it’s impressive nonetheless.

Holloway, one of four seniors, is 10-6 with a 2.62 ERA and a team-high 87 strikeouts this season. In Sunday’s 5-1 win over Virginia, she threw her team-leading eighth complete game of the season. As a hitter, she is batting .256 with two homers and nine RBIs.