Lake Forest College Softball
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Career Highlights Third year as head coach at Lake Forest Has led the Foresters to a 41-30 overall record and 19-2 mark in conference play 23 program records have been broken or tied in his two seasons at the College Directed the softball programs at Milsaps College for six years and Dakota Wesleyan University for one Has directed players to 51 all-conference selections, including five conference player of the year awards, and 44 academic all-conference honors in his career 2003 SCAC Coach of the Year Chicago area native, taught and coached at Chicago's Resurrection High School

The 2009 season will be Joe Kinsella's third year at Lake Forest College and 10th as a collegiate head coach.

Kinsella directed the 2008 Foresters to a 21-14 overall record and a 7-1 mark in Midwest Conference play. Lake Forest finished first in the league's South Division standings, earning the right to host the MWC Championship Tournament. Kinsella led the team to the title game for the second year in a row but fell to Ripon College.

Lake Forest has excelled in various statistical categories under Kinsella's direction. Forester players set or tied nine program records in 2008 and 23 marks have been established or matched in the last two seasons. Lake Forest led the MWC in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs, runs batted in, hits, doubles, home runs, and total bases each of the last two years and paced the league in stolen bases in 2007 and walks in 2008.

Christy Condon, Tracy Rainey, and Gretchen Galasek earned First Team All-Midwest Conference South Divisin honors in 2008 and Shelby Neill, Mallory Norton, and Jill Pfund were Second Team selections. Forester players have now earned a league-high 12 all-conference honors in the last two years, including seven first team distinctions. Condon was also named First Team All-Great Lakes region by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and Pfund earned Third Team honors. Three Lake Forest players were named Academic All-Midwest Conference, giving the team eight in the last two years.

Kinsella was the head coach at Millsaps College for six years before coming to Lake Forest. He took over a 1-26 program at Milsaps and directed it to three Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference West Division championships, one league title, and an NCAA Regional third-place finish. Individual Lady Majors were named All-SCAC 38 times, earned 36 Academic All-SCAC honors, and were voted SCAC Players of the Year twice during his six seasons. He was named the conference’s Coach of the Year in 2003. He also founded and directed Joe Kinsella’s Major Impact Softball Camps LLC, which he ran throughout Mississippi during the summer. In addition to softball, he was an assistant football coach from 2000-03.

Prior to coaching at Millsaps, Kinsella was the head coach at Dakota Wesleyan University for one year, an assistant softball and football coach at Illinois Wesleyan University for two seasons, a campus minister at St. Patrick High School in Chicago, Illinois for a year, and a softball, track & field, and cross country coach at Resurrection High School in Chicago for three seasons.

Kinsella graduated from Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, Illinois, and Illinois Wesleyan University. His high school football team captured a state title and his college squad advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

He resides in Lake Forest with his wife Kristen and children Aiden, Caeli, and Zoe.

Kinsella's Year-By-Year Coaching Record at Lake Forest

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