Former Doane College assistant softball coach Tiffany Higgins is the new head softball coach for Southeast Community College.  Higgins replaces Pat Lytle, who retired after beginning the Storm program in 2009 and guiding the team through its first three seasons.

Although last year was her first as a coach at the collegiate level, Higgins has been coaching since she was 14, starting as a T-ball and coach-pitch coach for several years during the summer.

Higgins also works at the YMCA in Beatrice, where she serves as a personal trainer and fitness instructor. Higgins is originally from Johnstown, Colo., and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 2002. She played varsity softball four years and received numerous honors.  She earned a bachelor’s degree from Doane in 2006 after majoring in physical education with an athletic training emphasis. She played softball three years for the Tigers, earning All-Great Plains Athletic Conference Honorable Mention honors. She also was a co-captain for the Tigers and was named a National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics Scholar Athlete.

Higgins also served Doane as a student athletic trainer, where she served as secretary and president of the Athletic Trainers Association. She played semi-professional softball in 2004 and 2005.

For more information about Southeast Community College, please call (402) 323-3401 or visit their website at:  www.southeast.edu.