Kelly Ford
Kelly Ford
Phone: (657) 278-7094
Email: softball@fullerton.edu
College: Oklahoma '92
Position: Head Coach (1st Season)

FULLERTON. Calif. -- In a ceremony held on the softball diamond at Anderson Family Field on the campus of Cal State Fullerton, Dr. Steve Walk, interim Athletics Director, introduced Kelly Ford as the third Head Coach in the Titans 34-year softball history.

Before coming to Cal State Fullerton, Ford guided the Mt. SAC program to four California State Championships (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009), seven South Coast Conference Championships (2003-08, 2001) and has earned South Coach Conference Coach of the Year honors five times. The book closes on Ford's 11-year career with the community college with a staggering 455-102-1 (.816) record.

Ford, who worked with Cal State Fullerton as an assistant coach in 2000 and 2001, brings nine years of experience as an assistant coach at the Division I level, adding time spent at Cal State Northridge with a year (1993) at her alma mater, Oklahoma.

"It's a bittersweet moment for me as I just held a meeting with my student-athletes at Mt. SAC that was very difficult, but this is really the dream for me." she said. 

The native of Portland, Oregon played two NJCAA National Championship seasons at Central Arizona College for Clint Myers (now at Arizona State University) in 1988 and 1989 before her career with the Sooners under then Head Coach, Jim Beitia. She earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education from Oklahoma University in 1992 and earned a master's degree from Azusa Pacific University in Physical Education with an emphasis in Coaching. She has a two and a half year-old daughter, Sarah.

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