Biography:

Bonnie Skrenta is in her eighth season as head softball coach at DePauw University and has directed Tiger teams to a 179-95-1 record in her first seven seasons including 140-30 over the last four seasons.

She led the Tigers to increasing win totals in each of her six seasons including a school-record 40 with only four losses in 2008. The Tigers captured their first Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title that year and followed it up with another championship in 2009.

DePauw has made three straight NCAA Division III Championship appearances and advanced to the final game of the first round each of the last two years.

In 2007 Skrenta not only led DePauw to its first NCAA tournament apperance, but a first-round title as the Tigers went 4-0 to advance to the national finals. The Tigers finished fifth and set the school record with 37 wins against just four losses. Skrenta and assistant coach Clyde Spencer were named the regional coaching staff of the year.

In 2006, the Tigers established the school win record with a 31-10 record and a second-place finish at the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament. In her five campaigns, the Tigers have improved both their win total and winning percentage each year.

Skrenta, a cum laude graduate of Providence College in 2000, earned a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and minored in business studies. She also served as a softball captain for the Friars as a senior. In May 2002, she earned a master of science in exercise and sport studies from Smith College in Northampton, Mass.

While at Smith, Skrenta served as an assistant softball coach where she conducted on-field instruction and practice planning as well as organizing the team's travel and serving as the head coach during the fall season.

She also served as a Teacher Fellow at Smith in the department of exercise and sports studies. Skrenta also was a Coast Guard Academy Cadet in the United States Coast Guard from 1996-98. While there, she was named an ECAC Second Team New England Division III Softball All-Star and a third team all-region selection. She previously served as a head coach for the western region at the 2001 Bay State Games.

Skrenta is also a part-time instructor in kinesiology and serves on the NCAA Division III Softball Championship Regional Advisory Committee.