UNLV honors associate softball coach

The UNLV softball program will honor associate head coach Carol Spanks Saturday after the Rebels' game against Utah. Spanks is retiring from coaching after a long and successful career that spans more than 40 years as a player and a coach, and includes the last five seasons at UNLV.

Spanks recorded her 700th win with the Rebels last season and her career record stands at 725-433-5. As a player Spanks was a 13-time Amateur Softball Association All-America shortstop and pitcher. In 1985 she began her collegiate coaching career as the head coach of Cal Poly Pomona and was named the 1985 and 1989 Big West Coach of the Year as well as the 1989 and 1992 Regional Coach of the Year.

She came to UNLV in 1995 as the associate head coach and helped coach UNLV to a third-place finish at the College World Series in her first season.

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