Kansas Softball Camps: Camp Staff
Camp Staff
Tracy Bunge - Head Coach
Tracy Bunge enters her 11th year as head coach of the Kansas softball team in 2007 after guiding the Jayhawks to a Big 12 Conference Postseason Championship, an NCAA Tournament automatic bid and 36-26 record -- the most victories since the 1997 season -- in 2006. A proven winner on all levels, Bunge has amassed a 318-271-1 record during her coaching tenure at KU and a mark of 766-547-2 in 24 years on the collegiate diamond as both a coach and student-athlete.
Since her hire in June 1996, Bunge's Jayhawks have made four NCAA Tournament appearances -- in 1997, 1999, 2005 and 2006 -- and claimed one Big 12 Championship (2006). The Jayhawks have also been ranked as high as ninth in the country under her leadership.
In addition to all the team accolades in 2006, senior Serena Settlemier, who hit a school-record 22 home runs including six grand slams, became the first Jayhawk to be named Big 12 Softball Player of the Year. Settlemier also earned 2006 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Second Team All-America honors and was named NFCA Midwest First Team All-Region. Junior hurler Kassie Humphreys, also an All-Big 12 First Team selection, was named NFCA Midwest Second-Team and finished the season with a 19-17 record and 1.19 ERA.
Kansas was ranked 24th in the May 16 ESPN.com/USA Softball Top 25 poll after receiving votes in four of the weekly polls in 2006. KU has compiled eight 30-win seasons and been to the NCAA Regionals four times in the last 10 years under head coach Tracy Bunge.
Bunge lead the Jayhawks to a 31-24 overall mark and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2005, which included a 9-8 record in the Big 12 Conference for a sixth-place finish. A total of five Jayhawks -- juniors Destiny Frankenstein, Heather Stanley, Jessica Moppin, Serena Settlemier and Ashley Frazer -- earned All-Big 12 accolades while three -- Frazer, Nicole Washburn and Kathy McVey -- were named Academic All-Big 12.
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Jen Sewell – Assistant Coach
Jen Sewell is entering her third season as assistant softball coach at the University of Kansas. Sewell, a former assistant and interim head coach at Princeton University, was named assistant coach at KU on Aug. 11, 2004. Sewell serves as recruiting coordinator and works primarily with catchers, mid-infielders and hitters at KU.
A native of Tulsa, Okla., Sewell came to KU after serving as an assistant coach at Princeton for four seasons. She also took over as interim head coach from November 2003 to January 2004 for the duration of the head coach's maternity leave.
Under her direction, Princeton won back-to-back Ivy League titles and made NCAA Tournament appearances in 2002 and 2003 while her players garnered over a dozen total All-Ivy, All-Region, All-Academic and Player of the Year honors. In Sewell's four seasons with the Tigers, Princeton has broken several school and Ivy League hitting marks including records for batting average, home runs, extra-base hits, doubles and RBI.
In 2002, Sewell was named to the Speedline/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Northeast Region Coaching Staff of the Year after helping the Tigers achieve the most wins in program history.
A former recruit of Bunge at Ohio University, Sewell was a four-year letterwinner in softball for the Bobcats from 1996-2000. Sewell served as co-captain, was an All-Mid American Conference Second-Team selection at catcher and MAC Hitter of the Week. In addition, she was a member of the OU Dean's List from 1997-2000, Team MVP in 1998, and recipient of the 2000 OU Alumni Scholar Athlete Award. Sewell earned a bachelor's degree in history from Ohio in 2000.
Sewell has been a familiar face at many softball camps and been an instructor at Princeton, North Carolina State, Kansas, Ohio and Worth Club K & Co. clinics since 1999.
Christi Musser – Assistant Coach
Christi Musser, a Kansas alumni, is entering her fourth season as an assistant under head coach Tracy Bunge.
After garnering All-America honors as a Jayhawk student-athlete, Musser continues her softball career as an assistant coach at Kansas. Musser, a former All-American and member of the Jayhawk squad under Coach Bunge from 1999-2002, is in her fourth year as a full-time assistant.
The first KU All-American under Bunge, Musser batted .354 as a senior with 35 runs, 30 RBI and nine home runs (eighth highest HR season total in school history). In addition to being the first KU All-American since 1994, Musser was named to the 2002 All-Region and All-Big 12 teams.
A four-time All-Big 12 selection, she ranks in the top five in three offensive categories at Kansas including the third best all-time single-season slugging percentage (.598). Musser also ranks eighth all-time at KU in career home runs (14).
A native of Scottsdale, Ariz., Musser spent the 2003 season as an undergraduate student assistant coach working primarily with the Jayhawk outfielders.
In addition to duties as outfield coach, Musser also helps with hitters and slappers and coordinates team travel, clinics and video operations.