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Kieff Named DWU Softball Coach
MITCHELL — After a search that included candidates from across the country, Dakota Wesleyan University athletic director Curt Hart announced Tuesday morning that the Tigers’ next head softball coach is one with plenty of ties in the state, the city of Mitchell and even DWU.
Ed Kieff has been selected as the 14th head coach in DWU softball history. Kieff brings many years of softball coaching experience at various levels with him to Dakota Wesleyan, where he takes over for Marie McCarthy-Foster. McCarthy-Foster announced her resignation in mid-June after four years with the Tiger softball program. She is moving back to her home state of Michigan with her husband, Jason Foster.
Kieff comes to Dakota Wesleyan with 20 years of softball coaching experience under his belt. Most recently, he was the head of the Sioux Falls Diamonds Fastpitch Softball Club, which he helped get started five years ago. The program started as one team when Kieff started it five years ago, and has grown to 12 teams spanning in age from 9-and-under to 18-and-under. He is the head coach of the 14u Diamonds Gold team, which won its division at the USSSA S.D. State Tournament in Sioux Falls in June.
For the past two years, Kieff has been the state director for the USSSA Girls’ Fastpitch Softball program. He helped develop the South Dakota program and has given the state a presence in the national fastpitch scene. Kieff, a 1999 Doane College graduate, coached his daughter’s fastpitch softball teams in Nebraska and South Dakota when she was growing up and helped guide a handful of teams to the ASA National Tournament. Later this month, he will travel with the 14u Diamonds Gold to Orlando, Fla., for the USSSA World Series.
Kieff takes over a team that went 12-23 overall and 7-13 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference and finished in 11th in the league in 2011. Nicole Haley and Brandi Nekrassoff both earned All-GPAC Second Team honors and Andrea Johnson earned honorable mention status. The Tigers didn’t lose any players to graduation in May, and return a core of juniors and seniors that have been with the program for the past three to four seasons.
Kieff currently lives in Sioux Falls with his wife. The couple has two grown children. He will start his duties as head softball coach immediately.
Ed Kieff has been selected as the 14th head coach in DWU softball history. Kieff brings many years of softball coaching experience at various levels with him to Dakota Wesleyan, where he takes over for Marie McCarthy-Foster. McCarthy-Foster announced her resignation in mid-June after four years with the Tiger softball program. She is moving back to her home state of Michigan with her husband, Jason Foster.
Kieff comes to Dakota Wesleyan with 20 years of softball coaching experience under his belt. Most recently, he was the head of the Sioux Falls Diamonds Fastpitch Softball Club, which he helped get started five years ago. The program started as one team when Kieff started it five years ago, and has grown to 12 teams spanning in age from 9-and-under to 18-and-under. He is the head coach of the 14u Diamonds Gold team, which won its division at the USSSA S.D. State Tournament in Sioux Falls in June.
For the past two years, Kieff has been the state director for the USSSA Girls’ Fastpitch Softball program. He helped develop the South Dakota program and has given the state a presence in the national fastpitch scene. Kieff, a 1999 Doane College graduate, coached his daughter’s fastpitch softball teams in Nebraska and South Dakota when she was growing up and helped guide a handful of teams to the ASA National Tournament. Later this month, he will travel with the 14u Diamonds Gold to Orlando, Fla., for the USSSA World Series.
Kieff takes over a team that went 12-23 overall and 7-13 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference and finished in 11th in the league in 2011. Nicole Haley and Brandi Nekrassoff both earned All-GPAC Second Team honors and Andrea Johnson earned honorable mention status. The Tigers didn’t lose any players to graduation in May, and return a core of juniors and seniors that have been with the program for the past three to four seasons.
Kieff currently lives in Sioux Falls with his wife. The couple has two grown children. He will start his duties as head softball coach immediately.
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