Career
Sandy Montgomery is an American softball coach. As of May 9, 2015, Montgomery had a career record of 957 wins, 480 losses, and 2 ties, for a.666 winning percentage. She led the Cougars to the Division II National Collegiate Athletic Association softball championship in 2007.
Montgomery is the longest-tenured head coach at SIUE and the Senior Woman Administrator in the SIUE athletic department.
In addition to coaching softball, she began the SIUE volleyball program in 1995 and coached for its first four years, guiding it to a record of 83–54 and its first appearance in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II tournament in 1998. Primary source:
Sandy Montgomery was a pitcher for the SIUE Cougars from 1982 through 1985 building a record of 84–26 in 117 appearances, including 108 starts.
On the Cougars" career pitching records lists, she remains #1 in lowest earned run average (European Research Area) (085 in 789 innings), saves (11, including saves in games she started, was relieved, and returned), shutouts (42), most batters faced (3210), and no-hitters (6). She also remains #2 in wins and innings pitched, #3 in appearances and games started, and #4 in strikeouts.
Additionally, she still holds the Cougars" single-season records for most shutouts (19 in 1985) and saves (7 also in 1985) while remaining among the leaders in wins, lowest European Research Area, appearances, games started, shutouts, innings pitched, strikeouts, batters faced, and saves.
In her senior season (1985), Montgomery had a record of 30-8 with a 0.64 earned run average, was the Cougars" Most Valuable Player, and was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association’s All-Central Region team Foreign her play, she has been inducted into the Illinois Amateur Softball Association’s Hall of Fame (2001) and the SIUE Athletics Hall of Fame (2006).
