Tammy Utley is in her third year as an assistant coach for the Lakeland softball team and will again serve as the team’s hitting coach.
In her first year with the program in 2015, Utley helped transform the Muskies offensively. Lakeland tallied 385 hits and scored 243 times, hitting at a .341 batting average and slugging 20 home runs. All four ranked as the highest totals for a Muskie team in five seasons. Inside the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference, prior to postseason play the Muskies were ranked in the top two in hits, batting average, runs scored, doubles and runs batted in. That continued in 2016, as in Utley’s second year the Muskies had another successful year at the plate, ranking in the top three in the conference in runs scored, RBIs and sacrifice hits.
Utley brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the Muskie softball program, with experience playing at the NCAA Division I level as well as coaching at the high school and college levels.
Utley has nearly 20 years of coaching experience, with a career that began as an assistant coach at Mid-Prairie High School in Wellman, Iowa. She then served as an assistant coach at the University of Northern Iowa from 2002-07, and then stepped into a head coaching role, first at Cedar Falls (Iowa) High School from 2008-10 and then at Waterloo West High School from 2011-12.
Utley played collegiately at the University of Iowa from 1995-99, where she was a team captain, team MVP, and was named third team all-Big 10. She also was a Big 10 all-academic selection and an all-region scholar-athlete.
Utley graduated from the University of Iowa in 1999 with a B.S. in Sports, Health and Leisure & Physical Studies. She also is Lakeland’s women’s tennis coach and is a student in the MBA program at Lakeland. She resides in Sheboygan.
