Karen Mullins

Karen Mullins is an American college softball coach, most recently the long-time head coach of the Connecticut Huskies softball team. She served in that role from 1984 to 2014. She announced her retirement on May 19, 2014.

Playing career Mullins graduated from Waterford High School in 1974. She spent a year at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus, where she played for the club basketball team. She then transferred to UConn's main campus, was just beginning to establish women's intercollegiate sports. She was the first female athlete at Connecticut to receive a scholarship. She played four years of basketball and two years of softball for the UConn Huskies. Mullins would remain at UConn for thirty one seasons, leading the Huskies to 10 top 2 finishes in the NCAA Northeast rankings, eight appearances in the NCAA Division I Softball Championship, a Women's College World Series berth in 1993, six Big East Conference regular season and seven Big East Conference softball tournament championships, and an overall record of 862–626–5. Over 96 percent of her players graduated, nine earned All-American honors, six were named academic All-Americans, and her players earned Big East Player or Pitcher of the Year awards 11 times. Mullins was one of the longest-tenured coaches at UConn, although many coaches also had remained in Storrs for multiple decades.

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