Seward County Community College Women's Softball

Bio The 2026-27 season will be Kadyn Trochim's first on staff at SCCC. Trochim comes to Seward after wrapping up a standout playing career at Pittsburg State, where she earned NFCA and D2CCA All-America honors as a graduate student following the 2026 season. Trochim appeared in 219 games across four seasons with the Gorillas and finished as a career .337 hitter. She ranks among Pittsburg State's career leaders in several categories, including hits with 197, tied for 10th; doubles with 40, tied for seventh; RBIs with 163, sixth; and walks with 91, second. Her final season was her best at Pittsburg State, as she posted a .446/.547/.697 slash line with a 1.244 OPS. She earned All-MIAA, All-Region and All-America honors. She helped the Gorillas to a Central Region Championship game appearance in 2026 as well as being ranked No. 20 in the final NFCA poll of the season. Trochim served as a graduate assistant in the athletic department at Pittsburg State from 2023-25. She was a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and worked as a teaching assistant in the Kelce College of Business. Before Pittsburg State, Trochim spent two seasons at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, where she was a two-time NJCAA All-Academic Team selection. Trochim graduated from Waco Midway High School, where she was a three-time all-district honoree and helped lead the Panthers to three district titles. Athletics runs strong in the Trochim family. Her mother, Shawn, is the athletic director at McLennan and previously served as a women's basketball coach at the school. She also played women's basketball at McLennan before continuing her career at Texas A&M. Her father, Ed, is an assistant athletic director at Waco ISD and previously coached high school baseball and softball. Trochim's sister, Rhein Carmichael, is an assistant coach for Temple College softball in Texas. The Leopards finished as the NJCAA Division I national runners-up this season. Trochim earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in business administration from Pittsburg State.

Bio Wade Lyons enters his third season with the Lady Saints softball program heading into the 2025 season Lyons helped Seward County softball to their best season since 2018 in his second year with the Lady Saints as they went 26-23 overall with a 19-13 overall record and a 5th place finish in the regular season. SCCC softball went on an eight game win streak during conference action in the 2024 season to climb to as high as the third seed in the KJCCC standings and grabbed a first round win over Colby in the Regoin VI Tournament 13-0 in run rule fashion. He helped coach a trio of All-KJCCC players including Aaliyah Gutierrez who earned first team honors after breaking both the single season and career records in stolen bases at Seward County. 

Bio The 2026 season marks Nikki Cole's first season helping with the Seward softball pitchers. Cole, a native of Greeley, Colo., was a pitcher at Black Hills State University from 2011-2013 where she made 17 career starts and 36 appearances throwing 115.1 innings. Cole resides in Liberal with husband Cody and four children, Easton, Evan, Eli and Emmett.