CAREER HONORS
- 11 consecutive NCAA Regional Appearances (2007-17)
- 8 NCAA Super Regional Appearances (2008-13, 15-16)
- 3 WCWS Appearances (2009-11)
- 2005 ACC Coach of the Year
- 2007 Big 12 Coach of the Year
- 2009 NFCA Midwest Staff of the Year
- 2010 NFCA Midwest Staff of the Year
- 2011 Big 12 Coach of the Year
- 2012 NFCA Midwest Staff of the Year
CAREER NOTABLES AT MIZZOU
- Guided Mizzou to 11 consecutive NCAA Regionals (2007-17)
- Led Mizzou to eight NCAA Super Regionals since 2008 (2008-13, 15-16)
- Three Women’s College World Series appearances at Mizzou (2009-11)
- Only seven schools in the nation, including Mizzou, have made at least eight NCAA Super Regionals since 2008
- Only one other school (Alabama), including Mizzou, have made NCAA Super Regionals all eight years from 2008-16
- Mizzou is one-of-six schools in the nation with eight NCAA Super Regionals since 2008
- Three 50+ win seasons at Mizzou
- Nine 40+ win seasons at Mizzou
- Highest winning percentage (.746) among all-time Mizzou Softball head coaches
- In seven seasons before Earleywine took over, the program averaged 32 wins per season (2000-06).
- Since Earleywine took over in 2007, the Tigers have averaged over 45 wins a season (+13 win increase)
- The program was inside the respective top 25 national polls every single week from the final 2008 polls through the Week Three poll of 2017 (134 consecutive polls)
- Has coached 13 All-Americans under his tenure, equaling 46% of the total All-Americans in program history
- 21 All-Midwest Region honorees under Earleywine
- 15 All-Southeast Region honorees
- Three-time Midwest Region Staff of the Year (2009-11)
- 15 CoSIDA Academic All-District honorees
- 10 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans
- 34 All-Big 12 Conference honorees
- 48 Academic All-Big 12 honorees
- Two-time Big 12 Coach of the Year (2007, 2011). Only two Coach of the Year honors in Mizzou Softball history before he took over
- 13 All-SEC honorees
- 36 SEC Academic Honor Roll honorees
Mizzou Softball has become one of the top programs in the nation, and is a perennial contender to reach the
Women’s College World Series under the direction of Head Coach Ehren Earleywine, a mid-Missouri native who enters his 11th year leading the charge for the Tigers. With a career winning percentage of .741 (599-209 over 13 seasons), Earleywine is truly among the top coaches in the nation. He is the 13th-winningest coach in NCAA Division I history entering this season, according to winning percentage.
Mizzou enjoyed a proud softball tradition before Earleywine took over in 2007, but he’s clearly since taken the Tigers to the next level. In the seven seasons before Earleywine’s arrival, Mizzou averaged 32.0 wins per season (2000-06). The Tigers have averaged 45 wins per season in Earleywine’s 10 seasons in the dugout (2007-pres.).
Earleywine has built the Tigers by striving for excellence in all phases of the game. Shut-down pitching,
consistent fielding and explosive offense have been constants during his tenure in Columbia. In his 10 seasons at the helm of the Missouri softball program, the Tigers have made three Women’s College World Series
appearances, recorded the first three 50-win seasons in school history and have advanced to eight NCAA Super Regionals. These accomplishments have come while building an incredible .746 winning percentage to rank as one of the winningest programs in the nation since 2007.
Mizzou Softball has competed at the highest level during Earleywine’s time leading the Tigers, including the capture of two of the programs’ seven all-time conference championships. As part of a stellar 50-12 overall record in 2009, Mizzou won the 2009 Big 12 Conference Tournament. The Tigers followed that up with a Big 12 Regular Season Championship in 2011, posting a stout 53-10 overall record. In Mizzou’s first season of Southeastern Conference action in 2013, Earleywine’s squad left an immediate impression. The Tigers placed third in the league’s regular season standings before finishing as runners-up at the SEC Tournament.
Earleywine’s teams have placed in the nation’s top 25 polls each week for the past eight years (2009-16), were ranked in the top 10 for five straight seasons (2009-13), including as high as No. 3 in the nation during a three-week run in 2010. Mizzou has finished as a top 10 team in the polls three times under Earleywine’s leadership (2009-11) and top 15 seven times (2009-13, 15-16).
Named Missouri’s head coach in August of 2006, Earleywine’s model for winning was rewarded with a seven-year contract extension on Aug. 31, 2011, making him the first Olympic coach in Missouri history to receive an extension greater than five years. In his 10 seasons at Missouri, Earleywine has managed a record of 452-154 and became the fastest Missouri softball coach to reach 300 victories. Since beginning his head coaching career in 2003 at Georgia Tech, Earleywine has turned in a .741 winning percentage, the 13th-best amongst active Division I coaches. He was the fifth fastest coach to reach 100 wins in NCAA Division I softball history.
Since Earleywine took the reins, Missouri’s batting averages have been on the rise, which includes a .313 mark in 2009, a .304 mark in 2013, .310 rate in 2014, .320 posting in 2015 and program record-breaking .327 performance in 2016. Additionally, the team ERA has steadily been on the decline, highlighted by 2011’s 1.40 mark, the Tiger’s best end of the year ERA since 1998.
Mizzou’s entire softball staff has received deserved recognition while helping the program ascend to the upper echelon of college softball. Earleywine and crew were named NFCA Midwest Region Staff of the Year three times in a four-year span (2009, 2010, & 2012).
