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Lions Softball Coaching Staff
Head Coach, Pete Langlois
After 13 seasons at the helm of the Southeastern softball program, head coach Pete Langlois is the winningest coach in school history. His 2004, 2005 and 2007 squads just missed a spot in the postseason tournament. With a roster that will feature several returning veterans and a slew of incoming playmakers in 2008, Langlois believes his vastly improving team will make a return to the Southland Conference Tournament after a four-year absence.
Langlois is no stranger to postseason play, having led six teams to the conference tournament as a member of the Southland Conference and the Trans America Athletic Conference. During his tenure, the Lady Lion program has continued to grow and improve.
The upgrading of Southeastern's home facility, North Oak Park, has been one of the top accomplishments of Langlois� tenure. The facility has had a press box, upgraded dugouts and a new scoreboard installed over the past two seasons. Southeastern�s home field is considered to be one of the top facilities in the Southland Conference and the immediate area.
Over the past seven seasons, Langlois� teams have produced a bevy of individual accolades including 29 all-SLC selections (five first team) and 12 all-Louisiana picks. In 2004, Summer Delaneuville was named Louisiana Newcomer of the Year, while Karin Smith - the school's career leader in home runs - was named first-team all-SLC and all-Louisiana. As a senior, Smith was once again named all-SLC. The three first-team SLC picks in 2002 were the first-ever in the Southland for Southeastern.
In 2007, Rachel Ray was a first team All-SLC choice and Arica Rodriguez was named Louisiana Newcomer of the Year. The Lady Lions hit a school-record 35 home runs and tied the school-record with 31 victories, including a 1-0 win over No. 6 LSU that snapped the Lady Tigers' 55-game winning streak versus in-state schools. Ray set school records with 21 victories and eight shutouts. Langlois also earned his 300th career win during the 2007 campaign.
The 2001 season provided perhaps the finest season ever for Southeastern softball as Langlois' Lions broke or tied 14 school and individual single-season and single-game records and placed five on the Southland Conference post season teams en route to the first winning season since 1998. Most noticeably, the squad tied the all-time record for single-season wins with 31, set a new mark for winning percentage in a single year winning 59 percent (31-22) of its games and won more conference games than ever before (16). The team also tied the school-record for wins in the post-season tournament with two as the Lady Lions knocked off the second and third-seeded teams finishing with a 2-2 record and nabbing third place honors.
The 2002 season wasn�t quite as good as 2001, but the finish was almost sweeter for Langlois as his team headed back to the Southland Conference Tournament after a fifth place league finish. The Lions didn't win quite as many games or set as many records as the '01 squad, but the 2002 team did, for the first time ever, make back-to-back trips to the Southland Conference Tournament and came within one run of knocking off top-seeded and tournament host Northwestern State in the semifinals to finish third in the event for the second straight year.
In 1998, Langlois led the Lady Lions into the Southland Conference and set the school's all-time record for wins with 31 and a berth in the SLC tournament while also setting numerous standards in the record books.
And the Southland Conference is certainly a place where the softball mentor is no stranger. As a former pitching and hitting coach for Nicholls State, Langlois contributed in the Lady Colonels� phenomenal season of 1994 when they posted a 51-15 season and were Southland Conference Co-Champions.
Following his stint at Nicholls, Langlois joined the Southeastern staff as an assistant coach in 1995 under then-head coach Corrie Hill. After Hill resigned to take a similar position at Baylor University in the middle of the season, Langlois was the obvious choice to lead the Lady Lions.
Langlois picked up the duties as interim head coach, finishing the season with an overall 19-27 record, 11-18 with him at the helm. He was appointed as head coach following the season in June, 1995 and has taken over the softball program full force.
Langlois has compiled an overall coaching record of 306-355 but has recorded 20+ wins in eight of his last nine campaigns. In his time as Southeastern's skipper, he has guided two All-South Region players, 15 All-Louisiana team members, 34 all-Conference players, eight conference all-Academic team members and one CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree.
Before entering the collegiate ranks, Langlois was a successful league coach in his native Baton Rouge.
Langlois received a bachelor of arts degree in business education from Southeastern in 1993. He is the proud parents of daughters, Malorie (7) and Macie (4).
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Assistant Coach, Karin Smith
Karin Smith, a native of Puyallup, Wash. and a former star of the Southeastern softball team, is in her third season as an assistant on head coach Pete Langlois� staff.
Smith primarily works with the team's hitters, passing along the expertise that made her one of the top power hitters in the Southland Conference during her Southeastern career, which spanned from 2002-05. In 2007, the team set a new school record with 35 home runs. Smith is also largely involved in the Lady Lions; recruiting efforts and helps Langlois run numerous camps during the offseason.
Smith is also in charge of the team's strength and conditioning program. Her work does not end with softball, as she is an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the entire athletic department. Smith, under the guidance of head strength coach Matt Moore, helps oversee the strength and conditioning efforts of all 16 Southeastern athletic programs.
Smith entered the coaching ranks after a stellar career in the green and gold. A two-time All-Southland Conference and All-Louisiana catcher, Smith finished her career as the school's career leader with 37 home runs, 109 runs batted in and 66 extra base hits.
She owns the top two seasons by a Southeastern home run hitter, blasting a school-record 15 home runs in 2004 and 14 round-trippers in 2005. Smith also holds school records for single-season slugging percentage (.757, 2004), single-season walks (28, 2005) and longest hitting streak (14 games, 2004). She is also one of five players in school history to hit two home runs in a game.
Smith's collegiate career followed a stellar high school career at Sumner High School. At Sumner High, she was a three-sport athlete and was a two-time First Team SPSL catcher.
Smith is a 2006 graduate of Southeastern. She and her fiance, Alex, reside in Hammond.
Assistant Coach, Stephanie Zellner
Stephanie Zellner, a former collegiate star at Oakland University, is in her first season as a member of the Southeastern staff.
Zellner, a native of Gervais, Ore., comes to the Lady Lions after a season at Dodge City Community College, where she served as an assistant coach. During her time at DCCC, Zellner oversaw the team’s strength and conditioning, individual hitting workouts and academic progress.
Zellner entered the coaching ranks after a stellar collegiate playing career. After earning All-Conference honors all four years at Gervais High School, she signed with Central Arizona College, where she was a first team NJCAA All-American and helped her team to a national championship as a freshman. After a successful sophomore season at Central Arizona, Zellner received a scholarship offer to Oakland University in Michigan.
After leading the Golden Grizzlies in runs batted in and batting average as a junior, Zellner put together an impressive senior campaign. A first team All-Conference selection, she again topped the team in RBI’s and batting average, while also ranking as the fourth-toughest player in all of Division I to strike out. I her two seasons at Oakland, she batted .328 with 17 doubles and 49 runs batted in.
At Oakland, Zellner was also a strong performer in the classroom, earning Academic All-Conference honors and receiving the Golden Grizzlies Excellence in Academics Award. Zellner earned a bachelor’s degree in communication from OU in May of 2006.
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