May 12, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY - San Diego State softball associate head coach Stacey Nuveman Deniz has been named to the 2015-16 USA Softball Women's National Team Coaching Pool, the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced today.
Nuveman Deniz is one of 25 coaches on the initial list who could end up being a head coach or assistant coach for the USA Women's National Team and USA Junior Women's National Team for all the 2015 and 2016 competitions. The selection committee for the national team chooses the coaching pool every two years based on the International Softball Federation (ISF) World Championships biennial cycle.
"We are thrilled to have another outstanding group of coaches making up the 2015-16 USA Softball Women's National Team Coaching Pool," ASA/USA Softball Director of National Teams Ronnie Isham said in a release issued by the ASA and USA Softball. "These coaches have proven themselves to be some of the best in the game and they will do a tremendous job of carrying on the legacy that USA Softball has established."
The USA Softball Women's National Team is slated to compete in the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto and the XV ISF Women's World Championships in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada in 2016, along with a series of exhibition games each year.
The USA Softball Junior Women's National Team, meanwhile, will compete at the XI ISF Junior Women's World Championships in Oklahoma City in 2016 and in various exhibitions.
In 2010, Nuveman Deniz was an assistant coach for the Women's National Team Selection Camp at the Canadian Open Fast Pitch Women's International Championship and at the World Cup of Softball VI.
Nuveman Deniz is in her sixth season with the Aztecs, serving as the recruiting coordinator and the hitting instructor. Nuveman Deniz was promoted to assistant head coach from an assistant coach in 2010 and was moved to associate head coach in 2013.
Since Nuveman Deniz joined SDSU in 2009, the team has won three Mountain West championships, been to the NCAA tournament all six years and has gone 208-118 (.638). This year's team has set school records in batting average (.303), on-base percentage (.398), runs (285), RBIs (257), walks (214) and times hit by pitch (26).
Nuveman Deniz is a three-time U.S. Olympian, winning gold medals in 2000 and 2004, and a silver in 2008. A four-time first-team NFCA All-American at UCLA, she ranks first all-time in NCAA history in home runs (90), slugging percentage (.945) and intentional walks (81).