Rich Billings begins his second season as the Lakers Head Baseball Coach. This will be Billings’ fourth season with Lake-Sumter Community College overall Billings came to LSCC, first as a player in 2001 after graduating from Leesburg High School. While at LSCC he played for former Head Coach and current Athletic Director, Mike Matulia. Billings was an All-Conference outfielder and is still the only player in the program’s history to start every game in his two-year career at LSCC. He earned his Associates Degree from LSCC in 2003 and went on to play his final two seasons for Tony Skole at East Tennessee State University where he would complete his Bachelor’s Degree in History in 2005. Billings remained at ETSU as a student assistant coach for a semester before returning to LSCC as a full time assistant coach in the spring of 2006. Billings went on to earn his Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Phoenix in 2007. He was named LSCC’s new head coach in July of 2007, when he became one of the youngest college head coaches in the country at 24 years old. In his four years as a coach at LSCC Billings has had 10 players move on to the Division I level. Four of those ten players were from his first recruiting class as a head coach in 2008. He has also had four players drafted in the Major League Baseball Draft. He has coached four All-Conference performers and one All-State Selection as well as the 2008 Florida Defensive Player of the Year. In addition to the success on the field, Billings has also had three Academic All-Americans. Billings has had other coaching experience with the Leesburg Lightning of the Florida Collegiate Summer League. In the summer of 2007 he served as an assistant coach for the Lightning team that went on to win the Florida Collegiate Summer League Championship in their inaugural season. Billings has also served as a volunteer coach for several area youth all-star teams. He has also been an instructor for the Mike Matulia All-Star Baseball School for the past nine years. He resides in Mt. Dora.
Josh Holt enters his third season as an assistant coach at Lake-Sumter Community College. He will also enter his second season as the recruiting coordinator and pitching coach for the Lakers. Holt came to Lake-Sumter Community College from Florida Tech University where he served as an assistant baseball coach in the spring 2006. He graduated from Leesburg High School in 2001 and then furthered his baseball career at Flagler College. While at Flagler College, he was a four-year starter at first base. He graduated from Flagler College in December 2005 with a Secondary Education-Social Science degree. Holt went on to earn his Master’s degree from the University of Phoenix in March 2007. Holt also has head coaching experience by leading the Leesburg Lightning of the Florida Collegiate Summer League to the championship in its inaugural season in the summer of 2007 with a record of 23-12. In the summer 2006, Holt also won the FCSL Championship as an assistant coach with the Winter Park Diamond Dogs. During his two years as an assistant coach and head coach in the FCSL, Holt coached eight players that are currently playing professional baseball. In his short time as a collegiate coach, Holt has coached six All-Conference performers and two All-Americans. Holt has also seen three of his former players drafted in professional baseball. In 2008, Holt saw nine LSCC baseball players move on to the four year level, including four at the division one level Holt comes from a baseball family; his father Roger played in the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers organizations in the 1970’s and his brother Jonathan is currently in the Cleveland Indians organization after being a 2007 5th round draft pick out of the University of Tampa. Holt is currently the Head Groundskeeper for the LSCC Athletic Complex and is an adjunct professor in the Student Development Department. He resides in Leesburg with his wife Lindsay.
This fall, Lisa Huntley, a native of Deerfield Beach, FL., will begin her second season at the helm of the Lake Sumter Community College Lakers Volleyball Team. Last year, she coached the Lakers to a second-place finish in the Mid-Florida Conference. The second-place finish allowed her team for the first time in three years to attend and compete for the NCCAA State Volleyball Championship. Huntley came to Lake-Sumter from Cedar Valley College, where she served as the head coach for five seasons. In 2003, her CVC volleyball team won the NJCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball National Champion. During that season she was named the National Tournament, District C, and AVCA Regional Coach of the Year. Huntley began her coaching career as an assistant at Houston Baptist University in 1991. Following her two-year stint there, she became head coach at Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, TX from fall 1993 until winter 1995. She then made the jump to the NCAA Division I level as an assistant coach at Oral Roberts University in 1996; she helped lead their team to the NCAA tournament. Huntley earned two letters at the University of Tennessee in the early 80’s. While playing for the Lady Vol’s, she was named team MVP as a junior and senior, all-state her junior year, and All-Southeastern Conference her junior and senior seasons. In 1987, Lisa was invited to the United States Olympic tryouts and also played international volleyball from 1986 through 1987.
Valerie Morales comes to Lake-Sumter from El Paso, Texas. This will be her first year as an Assistant Coach. She will be working with not only the setters but the defensive players. Morales will be helping with recruiting, keeping and updating stats for the team. Prior to LSCC, Morales attended Jesus Chapel School from 2001-2005 in El Paso, TX where she was a four year varsity starter for volleyball and basketball. Her volleyball team went to the state playoffs three of the four years. She came to Lake-Sumter in 2007 to play volleyball. She received All-Conference Honorable Mention as a setter for Lake-Sumter and graduated with her Associate of Arts in General Studies.
Kelly Golden begins her second season as head coach for the Lakers. Golden attended Edgewater High School where she played volleyball, soccer and softball. She then continued to Lake City Community College on a softball scholarship and received her A.A. After that, Kelly went to Lee University and continued her softball career and received her Bachelors in Physical Education. While at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn., Golden was first-team All-Southern States Athletic Conference and All-Region in 2005 and '06. She also was SSAC Player of the Year, second-team NAIA All-American and first-team National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American in '05. Golden will also be LSCC's sports information coordinator. Golden also is currently working with former United States softball Olympian Dr. Dot Richardson with the ProFastpitch X-Treme Softball Tour. She will continue to work for the tour as its activities coordinator.
A Native of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, Cathy begins her second season as a pitching coach for the Lakers. Cathy came to Florida her freshman year to Indian River Community College, continued to Lake City Community College and finished her softball career at Thomas University in southern Georgia.
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