Softball Coaches

Coach Lana Bowers, a native of Huffman, TX was a three-sport high school letter winner, earning All-State honors in softball and 1st team all-district honors in Volleyball, Basketball and Softball. She played travel ball with the nationally ranked program, TX Eclipse Gold. Bowers continued her academic and athletic pursuit at the University of Louisiana, as a Ragin’ Cajun Softball player. Bowers was a 3-time first team all-conference catcher, touting an impressive post season career of 3 Sunbelt Conference Championships, 4 NCAA Regional Appearances, 2 NCAA Super Regional Appearances, and a trip to the 2008 NCAA Women’s College World Series.

After graduating with her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 2010, Bowers traveled to East Asia to play softball for the summer in 2010, 2011, and 2012. She began her coaching career in 2011 as an assistant coach at Teurlings Catholic High School in Lafayette, LA where they were State Runners-Up. She went on to coach at the University of Louisiana, making her second trip to Oklahoma City for the 2014 WCWS; Huffman-Hargrave where she won a Softball TX 4A State Championship; LSU Eunice winning a DII NJCAA National Championship; Baton Rouge Community College; Southeastern Louisiana University, and Denham Springs High School where the team broke the school record for most homeruns hit in a single season, under Bowers’ hitting instruction. Bowers spent one year at Mountain Valley Middle school coaching Volleyball, Basketball and Softball.

A few notable milestones for Bowers are earning her masters degree in teaching in 2017 and becoming a mom to two adopted sons in 2018… and becoming a Reagan Rattler in 2022.

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