Softball
Newman, Nicole
Nicole Newman
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- nicolenewman@creighton.edu
Former All-American Nicole Newman joined Brent Vigness's staff on July 16, 2021 as an assistant coach.
Newman spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons as a graduate manager with the Minnesota Golden Gophers softball program and earned 2019 NFCA First Team All-America status to end her collegiate career while playing for the Drake Bulldogs. The Aussie Peppers drafted Newman during the third round of the 2019 National Pro Fastpitch Draft. She recently signed a contract with Athletes Unlimited and will compete in a five-week game schedule that runs from late August through September.
During her two seasons as a graduate manager at Minnesota, Newman helped the Golden Gophers post a 15-9-1 record during the shortened 2020 season and a 31-13 mark, including a 2-2 record at the UCLA Regional, in 2021. Minnesota ranked second in the Big Ten and 26th nationally with a 2.06 team ERA this past spring, while the Golden Gophers' Amber Fiser and Autumn Pease each earned spots on the NFCA Great Lakes Region Second Team.
Newman graduated from Minnesota with a Master of Education in Youth Development Leadership in June.
A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Newman capped her illustrious playing career at Drake as the Bulldogs' first NFCA First Team All American in program history. She ended the 2019 season as the NCAA leader in strikeouts with 423 and posted 13.36 strikeouts per seven innings, the 11th-best single-season mark in NCAA Division I history. Her strikeout total was the most nationally since 2015.
Newman also set the NCAA Division I single season record with five perfect games in 2019 and ranked third nationally with a 1.07 ERA (34 earned runs allowed in 221 2/3 innings pitched).
Newman ended her collegiate career with a Missouri Valley Conference record 1,223 strikeouts -- 137 more than the previous mark set by Creighton's Tara Oltman (2007-10) – a 2017 Creighton Athletics Hall of Fame inductee and member of the 2021 MVC Hall of Fame class. She also posted a school record 93 wins, which ranks second in MVC history behind Oltman (118). Newman and Oltman are the only pitchers in Missouri Valley Conference history to win Pitcher of the Year honors three times.
Newman spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons as a graduate manager with the Minnesota Golden Gophers softball program and earned 2019 NFCA First Team All-America status to end her collegiate career while playing for the Drake Bulldogs. The Aussie Peppers drafted Newman during the third round of the 2019 National Pro Fastpitch Draft. She recently signed a contract with Athletes Unlimited and will compete in a five-week game schedule that runs from late August through September.
During her two seasons as a graduate manager at Minnesota, Newman helped the Golden Gophers post a 15-9-1 record during the shortened 2020 season and a 31-13 mark, including a 2-2 record at the UCLA Regional, in 2021. Minnesota ranked second in the Big Ten and 26th nationally with a 2.06 team ERA this past spring, while the Golden Gophers' Amber Fiser and Autumn Pease each earned spots on the NFCA Great Lakes Region Second Team.
Newman graduated from Minnesota with a Master of Education in Youth Development Leadership in June.
A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Newman capped her illustrious playing career at Drake as the Bulldogs' first NFCA First Team All American in program history. She ended the 2019 season as the NCAA leader in strikeouts with 423 and posted 13.36 strikeouts per seven innings, the 11th-best single-season mark in NCAA Division I history. Her strikeout total was the most nationally since 2015.
Newman also set the NCAA Division I single season record with five perfect games in 2019 and ranked third nationally with a 1.07 ERA (34 earned runs allowed in 221 2/3 innings pitched).
Newman ended her collegiate career with a Missouri Valley Conference record 1,223 strikeouts -- 137 more than the previous mark set by Creighton's Tara Oltman (2007-10) – a 2017 Creighton Athletics Hall of Fame inductee and member of the 2021 MVC Hall of Fame class. She also posted a school record 93 wins, which ranks second in MVC history behind Oltman (118). Newman and Oltman are the only pitchers in Missouri Valley Conference history to win Pitcher of the Year honors three times.
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