Augie Softball
Coaching Staff

Michael Mook
Graduate Assistant Coach

Michael Mook is in his third season as a graduate assistant coach for the Augustana softball program in 2011-12.  He works primarily with pitchers.
 
Prior to coming to Augustana, Mook spent one year as an assistant coach for the University of Chicago-Illinois softball team. He also served as a co-head coach of the Minnesota Blizzard traveling team that recorded a 35-6 record and qualified for the USA/ASA National Tournament in 2008.
 
From 2005 to 2008, Mook was the head softball coach at Hastings (Minn.) High School.  In his final season with the program, Mook guided his team to its first state tournament appearance in school history and was selected as Section Coach of the Year.
 
Mook is not completely new to the NSIC; in the spring of 2000, he served as a pitching coach at Winona State.
 
A Boscobel, Wis. native, Mook graduated from Winona State in 2008 with a degree in physics education. He is currently working toward his master’s degree in education at Augustana.

Kelsey Thompson
Graduate Assistant Coach

Kelsey Thompson is in her second year as a graduate assistant with the Augustana softball program in 2011-12.

A native of Blue Earth, Minn., Thompson is a 2010 graduate of Minnesota State, Mankato, where she was a two-year letterwinner with the Mavericks. During her senior season at MSU, the catcher racked up a laundry list of accolades, including being named NSIC Player of the Year, All-NSIC first team, Daktronics All-America second team, Louisville Slugger/American Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America second team, Daktronics Central Region Player of the Year, Daktronics All-Central Region and Louisville Slugger NFCA All-Central Region first team. She hit .431 with 14 RBIs and 11 home runs as a senior.

Thompson has experience coaching a pair of under 18 teams.  She served as the assistant coach for the Minnesoat Blizzard U-18 team from 2007 to 2008 and was also an assistant with Mankato Peppers U-18 team from 2009 to 2010.

Thompson earned her degree from Minnesota State in exercise science with a sports medicine minor in 2010.  She is currently pursuing her master's degree in sports administration and leadership at Augustana.