It has been a summer of change for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team and coach Frank Reed.
After directing the Lady Mocs to the Southern Conference regular-season championship in 2010, Reed saw his entire coaching staff leave for other opportunities in the past two months.
In mid-July, assistant coach Brad Irwin resigned to take over as the new head coach at East Tennessee State. Less than a week later, pitching coach Shaina Ervin left UTC to take a similar position at Georgia Tech.
“It was a challenging summer,” Reed said in his office last week. “I had hoped to take some time off in July, but that wasn’t meant to be.”
Finally last week, volunteer assistant Jeff Martin was hired as a paid assistant at Lee University.