When the time came to hire an assistant coach, Head Coach Sarah Lockett selected one of her former players, Glynn Tolleson, in 2011. Tolleson played collegiate softball at Coastal Carolina under Coach Lockett in 2006-07.
Tolleson has coached the Texas Peppers travel ball team in Houston, Texas for the past four years. The Peppers compete in the highest level of ASA Softball and are regarded as one of the premier travel ball organizations in the state of Texas, holding a 100% recruitment rate for high school athletes at the collegiate level.
Tolleson has also worked as a self-employed private softball instructor since 2007. Tolleson has personally helped over 50 high school student-athletes be recruited to all levels of collegiate softball, including top level programs in the SEC, ACC and Big 12.
As a player at Coastal Carolina, Tolleson was named to the Big South All-Tournament team in each of her two seasons. Tolleson started 50 games at catcher in 2006, hitting .273 in conference play and ranking second in the Big South Conference with 11 sacrifice bunts. In 2007, Tolleson started 56 games behind the plate, hitting seven home runs and leading the team in sac bunts (12) and walks (25).
Prior to transferring to CCU in 2005, Tolleson spent two seasons at Radford University. While at RU, Tolleson started 75 games, earning Big South All-Tournament honors as a freshmen after hitting .273 with five doubles, 15 RBI and 12 stolen bases in the regular season.
Tolleson graduated from Coastal Carolina in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication with a minor in Political Science. Tolleson was named to the Dean’s List and to the Big South Conference President’s Honor Roll four times each; her cumulative GPA was a 3.4. Tolleson was also a member of Upsilon Eta, a charter of Lambda Pi Eta, the Official Honor Society of the National Communication Association (NCA).
