Dominican University (IL) Women's Softball

Shawn Jarmuz returns for his second season as an assistant coach for the Stars softball team. Jarmuz joined the Starts coaching staff after serving as head coach at Alverno College for three years. He also had a five year stint as an assistant coach for the Carroll University baseball team. At Carroll, Jarmuz helped lead the Pioneers to national rankings in four offensive categories including fourth in the nation in home runs, seventh in slugging percentage, 13th in batting average, and 21st in runs scored. Jarmuz also coached the 1997 Wisconsin 18U AAU State Championship Team. Jarmuz previously owned Hard Work Gets Me Hits!, a softball and baseball training facility in Joliet, Illinois. While there he was responsible for all aspects of the game including hitting, pitching, catching, throwing and defensive efforts. Jarmuz played collegiate baseball at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, before graduating with his Bachelor’s Degree in 1998. He later went on to receive his Master’s Degree from Concordia Wisconsin in 2003.

Bastek joined the Dominican softball staff in February 2022.  He previously served as assistant coach for the varsity program at Taft High School in Chicago, where he was named Coach of the Year in 2009. The Taft program had many successes with Bastek as part of the coaching staff including winning both the sectional and regional in 2021. He has also been at the helm of the Royal Swing Ravens Travel Team, coaching the 16U squad from 2016 to 2018. 

Randel a native of Streamwood, Illinois, is in his second year servicing as Director of Athletic Communications at Dominican.  Christopher Randel began his career in athletic communications during his senior year at Dominican, serving as a student intern with the sports information staff, where he developed experience in photography, video production, and website management.  Following graduation, Randel become the Athletic Department's first Graduate Assistant for the Sports Information Department. In that role, he gained experience writing stories, creating graphics, serving as a public address announcer, broadcasting, and supporting various communications efforts for Dominican Athletics.  Beyond his communications responsibilities, Randel is a member of the Dominican University Softball staff, currently in his second season as an assistant softball coach.  Randel earned his bachelor's degree in Marketing from Dominican in 2022 and completed his Masters of Business Administration at Dominican in 2024.   

Inheriting a team that averaged just over six wins per season in the nine years prior to her arrival in 2007, Cristina Lukas has led the Dominican University softball program to a 418-281 record while sporting a 480-352 career record. During her tenure, the Stars have rewritten the program’s record book, posting records for wins in a season (30, 2009 & 2017), batting average (.361, 2010), slugging percentage (.552, 2010), on-base percentage (.415, 2009), runs scored (313, 2009), runs batted in (270, 2009), total bases (616, 2010), doubles (84, 2010) and home runs (43, 2009). On the defensive side, her squads have set program marks for fielding percentage (.957, 2016), team earned run average (2.53, 2013) and batters struck out (315, 2013). Individually, Lukas has recruited and coached 12 NFCA All-Region athletes including Sarah Budz who became the program’s first NFCA All-American Selection and was named the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) Player of the Year in 2011.  In 2013, Emily Mahoney became the first pitcher to garner All-Region honors at Dominican University, claiming the NACC Pitcher of the Year award and smashing the program's record for strikeouts in a season with 251. Lukas has guided the Stars to the NACC tournament in 12 of the last 15 seasons including appearances in the NACC Tournament championship in 2009 and 2012. Lukas came to Dominican with coaching experience at the club, high school and collegiate level. Before Dominican, Lukas served as an assistant coach at Ball State University. As a member of the Cardinals' coaching staff from 2004-2006, Lukas was largely responsible for the development of the pitchers. In 2005, Lukas helped the staff to a 2.37 conference earned run average, the best by a Ball State pitching staff in four seasons. In her second season, one of Lukas' pitchers was named to the Mid-American Conference Second Team, the first pitcher to receive an All-Conference award since 2002. Lukas has also made stops at the University of New Haven and Quinnipiac University. As the head coach at New Haven from 2000 to 2003, Lukas helped build a program that struggled through an eight-win season the year before to a team that eventually posted 26 wins in her final season at the helm. From 2000 to 2003, Lukas helped the Chargers' pitching staff lower their team ERA from 2.19 in her first year to 1.19 in her final season. As the pitching coach at Quinnipiac, three of her pitchers ranked among the top four in the conference in earned run average after her first season with the team. A 1995 graduate of SUNY New Paltz, Lukas led all Division III pitchers with 232 strikeouts during her junior season, averaging 7.7 strikeouts per game to go along with 19 wins. For her efforts, she earned All-region and All-State honors. Lukas was named the SUNY New Paltz team MVP twice and was named to the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) All-Conference Teams during her junior and senior seasons. As a senior, Lukas received the Carol Eckman Award for Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year at SUNY New Paltz. In addition to her responsibilities with the softball team, Lukas serves as an Assistant Director of Athletics, Senior Woman Administrator and recruiting coordinator for the department.