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Tina Deese Position: Head Coach Education:: Florida State (1986)

2002 SEC Coach of the Year

In her 15th season as Auburn's head coach, Tina Deese led the 2011 Tigers back into the NFCA top 25 and to series wins over No. 4 Georgia and No. 18 Kentucky. Auburn posted seven wins over top 25 teams in 2011, including wins over No. 19 Oklahoma State, No. 11 Tennessee and No. 3 Florida in the SEC Tournament.

Auburn's win over the Gators put the Tigers in the semifinals of the conference tournament for the first time since 2005. Auburn lost to eventual tournament champion Tennessee by a score of 2-1.

Auburn advanced its fourth consecutive, and eighth overall, NCAA Regional in 2011. The Tigers traveled cross country for the Seattle Regional hosted by the University of Washington.

Including 2011, the Tigers have appeared in seven of the past eight NCAA Regionals and 11 of the past 12 Southeastern Conference Tournaments.

Deese is the longest tenured coach in the Southeastern Conference.

Averaging nearly 40 wins per season since 2004, the Tigers advanced to a third consecutive NCAA tournament in 2010, taking part in the nationally-televised Atlanta Regional.

With the SEC agreeing to a new multi-media partnership with the ESPN family of networks, CBS, FoxSports Net, the SEC Network, CSS and Sirius/XM Radio, the Tigers had 15 televised games since the 2010 season including home games against Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee.

Under Deese's guidance, the 2010 Tigers extended the program's streak of placing at least one player on the All-SEC Team to seven consecutive years as junior Kyndall White earned Second Team honors.

With a roster that featured 14 underclassmen, the Tigers posted four-year highs in home runs, RBI, total hits and batting average in 2010. The Auburn pitching staff had the league's third-best ERA, third-lowest opponent batting average and the second-most strikeouts during the season.

Playing with just three seniors and eight freshmen, the 2009 Tigers were limited in experienced players. But Deese and the coaching staff got the Tigers off to a strong start with wins over No. 18 North Carolina, No. 11 Cal and 2009 regional teams Jacksonville State, FIU and Cal-Fullerton.

Although injuries prevented the 2009 squad from being at full strength down the stretch, the Tigers were still able to earn berths in the SEC Tournament in Knoxville, Tenn., and the NCAA Regional hosted by Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

In 2008, Deese guided Auburn to a 27-4 record to start the season as the Tigers advanced to NCAA Regional play for the fourth time in the last five years. Auburn pitchers set a team record with 499 strikeouts and helped the Tigers notch series wins over No. 15 Mississippi State and No. 9 Tennessee.

The 2008 class continued the success of the previous three senior classes by winning at least 150 games in their four-year careers. The 2007 and 2006 seniors each won 154 games during their careers while the 2005 seniors own the most wins in a four-year stretch with 155.

Deese put together one of her strongest teams in 2005 as the Tigers rolled to a program-record 50 victories and hosted its first ever NCAA Regional at picturesque Jane B. Moore Field. For a second straight season, the Tigers finished in the top 25 of both collegiate polls.

Deese was also responsible for starting the softball program at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala.

In her eight seasons at Huntingdon, Deese amassed a 286-123 record. She led her teams to seven straight winning seasons and third-place finishes in the NAIA in 1992 and 1994. In 1992, Deese was named NAIA District 27 Coach of the Year.

Prior to her arrival at Huntingdon, Deese served as a pitching coach at her alma mater, Florida State, from 1985-86. Deese began her playing career in 1982 as a member of Golden West College's (Calif.) Varsity Softball team. She helped lead the team to the California State Championship in 1983 and was named the California State Championship Most Valuable Player.

Her accomplishments at Golden West led her to Florida State where she once again was greeted with immediate success. In 1984, her first season with the Seminoles, Deese led the nation in strikeouts per seven innings at 11.6. As a result, she was named the Lady Seminoles Most Valuable Player while helping lead the team to the Florida State Championship. She was also named to the All-Southeast Region First Team -- a feat she duplicated her second season and final season at Florida State.

Deese received a bachelor of science degree in leisure services and studies from Florida State in 1986. She later received a bachelor of arts degree from Huntingdon College in human performance and kinesiology in 1994. She completed her master of arts in teaching from Troy State University in 1995.

Deese and her husband, Allen, have one son, Kyler, 18, and daughter, Jessi, 14.

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