Van Wyk Rejoins Titans’ Softball Coaching Staff

Kathy Van Wyk, former Cal State Fullerton pitcher who won the 1982 Broderick Award for softball, was reappointed Monday as a Titan assistant under coach Judi Garman.

Van Wyk, who went 35-1 with a 0.18 earned-run average in 1982, was a Titan assistant from 1983-87. Since leaving Fullerton, she has been a pitching instructor at Rod Carew’s Baseball School, head coach of the Azzanase Softball Club in Azzano Decimo, Italy, and a pitching coach for the Walkerville Softball Club in Adelaide, South Australia.

Now 29, Van Wyk recently completed production of two instructional videotapes for softball pitching. She will replace Marty Rubinoff, who resigned after the 1990 season, on Fullerton’s staff.

Van Wyk began her college softball career at Texas Women’s College and was a member of the school’s 1979 national championship team. But when Texas Women’s College dropped its program in the summer of 1981, Van Wyk transferred to Fullerton.

She pitched only one season but set a school record for victories, earned NCAA All-American honors and won the Broderick Award, which honors the nation’s most outstanding college softball player.

Her 1982 statistics included four no-hitters, back-to-back perfect games, 27 shutouts, 278 innings pitched, 270 strikeouts and six one-hitters.

“It’s very exciting to have Kathy returning,” Garman said. “The last few years she has picked up valuable experience to add to her knowledge. She provides good leadership and will be an outstanding pitching coach for us.”

Fullerton women’s volleyball Coach Jim Huffman has announced the addition of Cindy Cox-Bellin as an assistant. A former setter for Huffman at Colorado State, Cox-Bellin will join assistant Marlon Sano on the Titan staff.