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PATRICK LAWSON
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, SIXTH SEASON AT TENNESSEE The Tennessee softball program has hired Patrick Lawson as its new director of softball operations. Lawson previously worked in Tennessee event management for five years, overseeing game days and managing events for UT’s softball, soccer and women’s golf teams. “We are excited about hiring Patrick Lawson as our director of operations,” Tennessee co-head coach Ralph Weekly said. “Patrick replaces Lindsay Schutzler Bell, who moved to Texas to be with her husband. Patrick has done an amazing job as the event director for softball the past several years. As part of the University event management staff, he has a thorough knowledge of the athletic department and its procedures. He is an intelligent problem solver who knows how to get things done.”
Lawson should be a familiar face to Lady Vol softball fans as he has orchestrated UT softball regular-season and postseason games in recent years. He has played a major role in producing enjoyable and safe game day experiences at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium and he has been vital to behindthe-scenes coordination for Tennessee’s appearances in the SEC Tournament, the NCAA Regionals, the NCAA Super Regionals and the Women’s College World Series. Lawson earned his bachelor’s degree in sports management and his master’s degree in kinesiology from the University of Tennessee. Lawson, his wife, Caroline, and daughters, Maddie and Olivia, live in Knoxville.
HOLLY FRANTZ
ASSISTANT STRENGTH & CONDITIONING COACH Holly Frantz is in her fifth year as a Tennessee assistant strength & conditioning coach and she enters her second season working with the UT softball team. Frantz, who also works with the Lady Vol volleyball team, designs and implements comprehensive programs that maximize the student-athletes’ strength, speed, agility, quickness and conditioning. She arrived in Knoxville in the summer of 2009 after working as an assistant
strength & conditioning coach at Xavier University from 2005-09. She was previously a strength & conditioning intern at the University of Notre Dame from 2004-2005. Frantz earned her masters in sports administration from Bowling Green State University in 2004. She earned her bachelors in sports management at BGSU in 2002, where she also played softball as a four-year scholarship student-athlete.
SHANNEN ROBINSON ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINER, MS, ATC, LAT Shannen Robinson is in her first year as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Tennessee and she is in her first season working with the UT softball team. She returns to Tennessee after previously being employed by Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic in the Sports Medicine Outreach Program from 2009-2011, where she served as the head athletic trainer at Knoxville Catholic High School and provided athletic training coverage for community and area sporting events. Most recently, she worked as a sales
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and service representative for DJO Global, Inc from 2011-2013. She received her bachelors in Exercise Sport Science - Athletic Training from the University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll in 2007 and her masters in Recreation and Sport Management from The University of Tennessee in 2009. As a graduate student she worked in the athletic department as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the cheerleading and dance teams.