Katlin Olesky

Katlin Olesky enters her third season as an assistant coach on the Coppin State softball coaching staff entering the 2017-18 season.

The 2017 Coppin State softball team made it to the MEAC Softball Tournament after a two year hiatus. Cayla Brown, Cloe' Ochoa and Patricia Soria were named to the All-MEAC Softball Team while seven were named to the All-MEAC Softball Academic Team.

In her first season, Olesky coached the NCAA Division I batting average leader, former Coppin State shortstop Danielle Smith. The Coppin State shortstop was crowned the NCAA Division I statistical champion with a .505 batting average. Smith also led the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in slugging percentage (.798) and on base percentage (.566) while ranking second in the MEAC in total bases (87) and in doubles (12). She was third in triples (4) and seventh in stolen bases (17) amongst the MEAC.

Prior to Coppin State, Olesky was a student-athlete at UMBC where she played two seasons for the Retrievers at second base. Before finishing her collegiate career at UMBC, Olesky attended Saddleback College in California where she was a scholar-athlete as a freshman and a Scholar-Baller as a sophomore.
 
A native of Irvine, CA, Olesky received her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UMBC in 2015 and has an Associate’s degree in Sociology from Saddleback College in 2013.
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