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CAREER COACHING LEDGER
REVELLE
Head Coach
» University of Nebraska (1993-present)
» Nebraska Wesleyan University (1987)
HEAD COACH l 23RD SEASON l NEBRASKA (1984)
843-441 RECORD AT NEBRASKA l 851-457 CAREER RECORD
Assistant Coach
» San Jose State University (1989-92)
» California State University-Hayward (1988)
» Nebraska Wesleyan University (1986)
CAREER HONORS & AWARDS
» NFCA Hall of Fame (inducted in December of 2010)
» Nebraska's All-Time Wins Leader in Any Sport (843)
» Four-Time NFCA Midwest Region Staff of the Year (1998, 2002, 2013 & 2014)
» Midwest Region Coach of the Year (1995)
» Big Ten Coach of the Year (2014)
» Two-Time Big 12 Coach of the Year (1998 & 2001)
» Big Eight Coach of the Year (1995)
» Nebraska Softball Hall of Fame Inductee (1997)
» Dr. Barbara Hibner Trailblazer Award Recipient (2007)
CAREER ADMINISTRATIVE LEDGER
University of Nebraska
» Senior Woman Administrator (Jan. 1, 2006 to March 7, 2008)
National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA)
» NFCA President (1999-2002; 2005-06; 2013-present)
» NFCA 2nd Vice President (1995-98)
» NFCA Midwest Ranking Committee (1996-98)
» NFCA All-American Committee, Chair (1993-94)
» NFCA All-American Committee, Member (1989-92)
When Nebraska began its search for a head coach following the 1992 season, the
program was in need of an enthusiastic, high-character individual who would return the
Husker softball program to its perch among the sport’s elite. NU found that person in
Rhonda Revelle, who returned to her alma mater in 1993 on a mission to build on Nebraska’s
illustrious past and re-establish the Huskers as a national power.
Consider it mission accomplished.
The numbers speak for themselves: 843 wins; 19 All-Americans; 18 NCAA Tournament
berths; 13 academic All-Americans; eight top-10 finishes; eight coach-of-the-year accolades;
seven conference titles; four Olympians; and three Women’s College World Series berths.
Those numbers put Revelle into an elite group of coaches. The National Fastpitch Coaches
Association (NFCA) agreed in 2010, when Revelle was inducted into the NFCA Hall of
Fame, an elite fraternity that includes fewer than 75 of the sport's all-time great coaches.
With Revelle's individual legacy even further enhanced, she is now determined to
continue raising the bar for one of the nation’s elite programs.
The Huskers were voted the 12th-best program of all-time by the NFCA in 2003 and
Nebraska was recognized as the 10th-winningest NCAA program ever by CBS College
Sports in 2007. Under Revelle's guidance, Nebraska became the 10th program to win
1,000 NCAA games in 2009. In charge of a nationally recognized top-15 program, Revelle's
Huskers finished eighth in 2013 while making the program's seventh all-time appearance in
the Women's College World Series, a total that ranks 11th in NCAA history. NU recorded
another top-10 finish in 2014, when the Huskers advanced to an NCAA Super Regional.
Entering her 23rd season in 2015, Revelle owns nearly every Nebraska coaching record.
With a Nebraska career record of 843-441, Revelle is the winningest and longest-serving
head coach in Husker softball history. She became Nebraska's all-time wins leader in any
sport with her 768th win at Oklahoma State on March 3, 2013.
It took Revelle just three seasons to lead NU to the then-winningest softball season in
school history and the first NCAA Tournament berth in seven years in 1995, but Revelle’s
connection with Husker softball goes back much further.
Revelle has not only added to Nebraska’s legacy as one of the nation’s elite programs,
she helped build that legacy as a player for the Big Red from 1981 to 1983. Originally from
Eugene, Ore., Revelle’s first tour of Lincoln helped establish Nebraska as an elite program.
She helped lead the Huskers to an appearance in the first-ever NCAA Women’s College
World Series in 1982, and on the strength of that early success, the Huskers returned to
the World Series two seasons later, finishing third in 1984 after Revelle had graduated.
Future Husker teams built upon the solid foundation Revelle helped lay, and Nebraska
quickly emerged as a national power on the diamond, finishing third in the 1987 World
Series and fifth in 1988.
After advancing to four of the first seven World Series ever contested, Nebraska fell
on hard times in the early 1990s. Back-to-back losing seasons in 1991 and 1992 prompted
a coaching change that brought Revelle back to Nebraska as the Huskers’ head coach.
Barely a decade removed from helping Nebraska emerge into a dominant program as a
player, Revelle spent the 1993 and 1994 seasons once again laying the foundation for the
Huskers’ return to national prominence.
Nebraska’s re-emergence onto the national scene began to take shape in Revelle’s third
season, when she was named the 1995 Big Eight Conference and NFCA Midwest Region
Coach of the Year. The honor came after Revelle guided Nebraska to a then-school-record
43 victories and a final No. 18 ranking in the in ]Y