2013 GEORGIA SOFTBALL
ASSISTANT COACHES
Gerry Glasco
Associate Head Coach Fifth Season Illinois, ‘80 Gerry Glasco enters his fifth season with the Bulldogs in 2012. Glasco serves as the Bulldogs’ recruiting coordinator, and after three seasons as an assistant coach, he was promoted to associate head coach after the 2011 season. In his three years with the program, Georgia has gone 148-39 overall and 53-24 in Southeastern Conference action. In his first year as the associate head coach, Glasco helped three Bulldog hitters to over a .300 batting average, led by Kristyn Sandberg, who finished the year with a .355 average and led the team in home runs with 19. He also helped guide Sandberg to Second Team All-American Honors, First Team All-Region Honors and First Team AllSEC honors. Glasco guided Paige Wilson to four SEC Freshman of the Week honors, SEC All-Freshman Team honors and SEC All-Tournament honors, after she hit .342 for the year. As recruiting coordinator, Glasco helped sign seven ESPN Top 100 players, more than any other team in the nation. Of the Top 100 players that he helped sign, three were in the top 18, including the fifth-best player in the nation. In his first year at UGA in 2009, Glasco helped the Bulldogs reach their first-ever Women’s College World Series and played a key role in Georgia’s hitting instruction helping the Bulldogs bat .319 with a school-record 85 home runs. The Bulldogs also finished the year with the nation’s second-best slugging percentage, a school-record .574 clip, and they were sixth in scoring at 6.32 runs per game. In 2010, Glasco helped the Bulldogs reach the WCWS for the second consecutive season while establishing eight new single-season school records including home runs (99), runs (422), doubles (102), RBI (380), total bases (944), walks (231), slugging percentage (.578) and onbase percentage (.413). In 2011, the Bulldogs continued to attack the offensive record books improving upon those school records in runs (434), RBI (390), walks (238) and on-base percentage (.418). Over his three years with the program, Georgia is 148-39. A native of Crab Orchard, Ill., Glasco joined the Bulldog program in the summer of 2008 from Johnston City High School where he worked as an assistant coach. From 19992004 and from 2007-08, Glasco worked in the assistant coach role with Johnston City High School. During the 2007 and 2008 seasons the Indians posted 32-3 marks each spring. Glasco also served as coach of the junior high school program that finished 29-0 while winning the state championship in 2007 and 25-4 with a third place finish at the state level in 2006. Glasco was the founder of the Illinois Southern Force Softball organization, and he served as head coach of the Southern Force Gold from 2001-08 finishing in the top-20 four times at the prestigious ASA Gold Nationals including two finishes in the top-10. He led the Southern Force to the 2004 18U Gold National Championship, which was held in Marietta, Ga. Additionally, the Illinois Southern Force program became nationally recognized by winning the Canada Cup Futures Championship in 2003, and more recently finishing second and fourth at the ASA 16U A Nationals in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Glasco and the Southern Force coaching staff were honored as the “National Travel Team Coaching Staff of the Year” in 2004 by the NFCA (National Fastpitch Coaching Association).
Tara Archibald
Assistant Coach Second Season Southern Illinois, ‘04
Tara Archibald enters her second season as an assistant coach for the Georgia program in 2012. In 2012, Archibald coached pitcher Erin Arevalo to Third Team All-American honors, as well as Second Team All-SEC honors and SEC All-Tournament honors. In her first season working with Georgia’s pitchers, Archibald helped lower the team ERA from 2.19 in 2011, to 1.69 in 2012. A native of Johnston City, Ill., Archibald joined the Bulldogs in August of 2011 having previously served as manager and coach of the Southern Force Softball Organization from 2003-11. Through her role with the Southern Force, an elite level travel ball program, Archibald developed and assisted over 50 high school athletes in earning college scholarships including five that went on to earn collegiate All-America honors. Archibald led the Southern Force Organization to five Final Four appearances at the ASA 16U “A” Nationals including a Runner-Up National Championship in 2007. Her squad also finished second in the 16U Independence Day Tournament in Boulder, Colo., in 2007 and then won the tournament in 2011. Additionally, Archibald was an assistant coach at Pinckneyville High School from 2005-06. The Panthers won Conference, Regional and Sectional Championships in both 2005 and 2006, and in 2005, they advanced to finish fourth at the IHSA State Tournament. Archibald also served as the head coach of the Pinckneyville Middle School team from 2005-06 leading her squad to a Regional Championship and a fourth-place finish at the IJHSAA State Tournament. A member of the Southern Illinois University-Carbondale softball team from 2000-03, Archibald helped the Salukis earn their first-ever NCAA Tournament win in 2003 en route to advancing to the school’s first Sweet 16 appearance. Archibald also excelled in the classroom at SIU as a four-time NCAA Scholar Athlete Award winner and recipient of the Missouri Valley Conference Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award in 2003. In 2004, Archibald completed her Bachelor’s Degree at SIU in Elementary Education graduating Summa Cum Laude. She then taught Junior High Language Arts from 200405 at CUSD #204 in Pinckneyville and third grade at Pinckneyville Elementary school. Archibald is married to Bryan Archibald, and they have three children: Aiden, Maddux and Payton.
Glasco graduated from Crab Orchard High School in 1976 where he lettered in track, baseball and basketball. He went on to attend the University of Illinois, where he graduated with a degree in Agricultural Economics in 1980. Glasco is married to Vickie Johnson Glasco, and they have three daughters, Tara, Erin and Geri Ann. Tara played collegiate softball at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is in her second season as an assistant at Georgia, and Erin played collegiately at Texas A&M, where she helped lead the Aggies to a runner-up finish for the national championship at the Women’s College World Series in 2008. Glasco’s third daugher is a freshman on the Georgia softball team.
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