Danieca Coffey draws on LSU experience as she navigates rookie AUSL season: ‘Just be you’


CHICAGO — Many rookies would be nervous in their first at-bat as a professional. But for Danieca Coffey, playing for the Volts in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL), nerves did not appear to be a problem. In her first at-bat on June 8, Coffey slapped a grounder to left field, getting a hit and the go-ahead RBI in a win over the Blaze. Since then, the LSU alumna has been on a tear in AUSL’s first season.

Coffey has made a name for herself as one of the standout rookies for the AUSL this season, and she was helped in that first weekend by a coach she knew well. Howard Dobson, an assistant coach for Coffey at LSU who is now coaching in AUSL, reminded her that she’s already hit one of her goals by making it to the league.

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“Dobby had reminded me, you’ve made it to the one percent, so you don’t have to try to prove yourself at this point. So just be you,” Coffey told Yahoo Sports in Rosemont on Tuesday night. “So when I got in the box, I was like, You know what? I hit off somebody that throws 65 and throws curveballs like [that]. I can do this. It’s just like, one step a little bit higher. Just don’t think about it.”

She ended up going 3-for-3 in that first game, and then hitting .800 in the series. For the season, Coffey is batting .306/.359/.444 for the 5-10 Volts, and she knocked in her first home run two weeks ago.



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