Lamar Community College is proud to have decades of fast pitch softball coaching experience represented in its Softball coaching staff.
Craig Brooks
719-336-1674
Craig.Brooks@lamarcc.edu
Head
Coach Craig Brooks is in his eighth season at LCC. He came to Lamar Community
College with twenty years of experience coaching women’s fast pitch
softball. For the past twenty-six years he has coached the Pony Express
summer program in the metro Denver area, leading his team to qualify for
nine national tournaments. Coach Brooks was head softball coach at Horizon
High School (Denver) for seven years. He continues to play a large part
in the Colorado Fireworks Softball Tournament which hosts 181 teams from
44 different states.
Coach Brooks took over the Lady Lopes softball program with only nine
athletes. This number has exponentially grown into twenty-five very competitive
athletes. Brooks begins this season with a record of 259 wins and 172
losses entitling him to a .607 win/loss percentage. He maintains a very
busy schedule, playing 30 games in the fall/exhibition season and 60 highly
competitive games in the spring season.
Six of his players have earned All-American honors under Coach Brooks.
The team also posted the 5th best team GPA in Division I NJCAA Softball
in 2007 with a 3.390. Brooks works very hard to place any and all his
female athletes who want to play at the next level. He has actively placed
twenty-eight players to colleges and universities including Division I,
II, III and NAIA institutes.
Before beginning his coaching career, he served in the military for four
years, during the Vietnam conflict.
Craig and his wife, Susan have two grown daughters, Sarah and Sam.
Phil Forney
Assistant Softball Coach
Assistant
coach Phil Forney is starting his third year at LCC. He was born and raised
in Mound City, Missouri, where he met his future wife, Mary Frances. He
attended Northwest Missouri State, where he obtained a bachelor degree
in Biology and Chemistry, and mastered in Guidance and Counseling. Coach
Forney moved to Lamar, Colorado at the age of twenty-one and began his
thirty-three year career in the Lamar School District.
Coach Forney was an influential part in starting fastpitch softball at
the high school level. He coached softball at Lamar High School starting
in 1995 when the sport was first introduced. He coached basketball, baseball,
and football at all levels for twenty-seven years. Coach Forney was an
instrumental part of Lamar High School athletics before his retirement,
allowing him to be a tremendous addition to the Lady Lopes softball program.
Coach Forney has two grown sons, Kevin and Craig. Craig is a Small Business
Management instructor at LCC.
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