Chadron State College Women's Softball

Chadron State College has hired Skye Koehl (pronounced “kale”) as the new head coach of the Eagle softball program following a national search, athletic director Mannie Reinsch announced Monday, June 2.  Koehl will join CSC after two seasons as the head coach of Otero College, a junior college in La Junta, Colorado. Under Koehl’s direction, the Rattlers finished in second place in NJCAA Region 9 in 2024, advancing to the regional championship game, and backed up a second-place regular season finish with a third-place tournament finish in 2025. Koehl’s teams finished with a combined 34-14 record in conference play.  As a student-athlete, Koehl was a junior college national champion with Temple College (Tex.) in 2018, a season in which she won both First Team All-Conference and Academic All-Conference honors. Koehl hit .392 with seven home runs, 26 RBI, six doubles, three triples and 20 walks during Temple’s national championship season.  Koehl transferred and played three years at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (NCAA Division I), appearing in 59 games and starting 34 for the Islanders from 2019-2021. Koehl’s first Division I home run came in her final collegiate at-bat against Abilene Christian.  Koehl began her coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (NCAA Division III). She also coached with youth club programs in Texas, including the South Texas Prospects and Central Texas Buzz, and served as a strength and conditioning intern for the Scrap Yard Dawgs, a professional softball team in Houston. She was hired as the assistant coach at Otero ahead of the 2022-23 academic year and immediately took over the team’s strength and conditioning program as well as recruiting, fundraising, travel arrangements and statistics. Koehl was named the program’s head coach the following year. A native of Columbus, Texas, Koehl graduated with her associates from Temple College in 2018, her bachelors from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in 2020 and her masters from TAMUCC in 2022, all in kinesiology and exercise science.  

Stack was named the Conference Coach of the Year. In seven full seasons, Stack has guided the Eagles to nearly 150 victories. In the spring of 2010, CSC qualified for the RMAC postseason tournament, winning one game. It was the first time in school history the Eagles played in the conference championship tournament. Stack has been a consistent force in helping the Eagles make the leap to Division II. In fact, Chadron State was the only RMAC school to improve its win total each season his first three years on the job. Stack's players excel in the classroom. The team GPA has never fallen below a 3.2 and Casey Williams and Cassie Humphrey have been the RMAC All-Academic Players of the Year in 2009 and 2010. Williams and Angela Jay were also Academic All-Americans. Chadron State is the only school in the RMAC to have multiple All-Academic Players of the Year. Williams, under Stack's guidance, also became the first CSC pitcher to be named the RMAC Pitcher of the Year. In addition, Stack has coached several All-District performers and three All-Conference First Team players. Prior to becoming the head softball coach, Stack coached baseball for 15 years. He served as the Chadron Senior Legion baseball coach for seven years, leading the Post 12 seniors to a third place finish at the 2007 Class B state tournament and a 44-12 record. Stack was also the head baseball coach at the University of South Dakota from 1994-1998 before coming to Chadron State. Before coming to CSC in 1998, Stack taught in the math department at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion for four years. He earned all three of his degrees from USD a doctorate in 1998, a masters degree in 1991 and a bachelors degree in 1990. Stack, a native of Tabor, S.D., and his wife, Jill, have six children. They are Kiya, Riley, Caston, Jayden, Brooklyn, and Kennady.  

2024: One of the most prolific hitters in Chadron State history is Brighton, Colorado’s Kayla Campuzano (formerly Michel), who played first base, catcher, and designated player at various times in her career. She returned to the team as a coaching assistant in fall of 2019. She ranks among the top five in the CSC program for career RBI, walks, sac bunts, home runs, and sac flies, and now holds the CSC single-season record for RBI. Campuzano, a vocal and supportive teammate as a player, provided much-needed seniority during both her junior and senior seasons and continues to lead as a coaching assistant. She is now in her fourth season.

Ashland Baca joined the Chadron State coaching staff as a graduate assistant ahead of the 2025 season.  A native of Pueblo West, Colorado, Baca had a five-year college softball playing career, spending her first two seasons at McCook Community College and three seasons with Chadron State. A slugging first baseman/designated player, Baca ranked top-10 in the nation at the junior college level with 23 home runs during the 2022 season at McCook.  Over the course of three seasons with the Eagles, Baca hit a cumulative .343 with a .417 on-base percentage while racking up 20 home runs, 21 doubles and 90 RBI. In her final season in 2025, Baca ranked ninth in the RMAC with a .466 on-base percentage and had twice as many walks (22) as strikeouts (11).  Academically, Baca graduated from Chadron State with a perfect 4.0 GPA as a business administation major, winning First Team Academic All-RMAC honors in 2025. She is currently pursuing her MBA from CSC.