Trinidad State Junior College Women's Softball

Swazo enters his tenth season as head softball coach of the Lady Trojan softball team. The 2015-2016 team is one of the strongest classes Coach Swazo has ever fielded.  He will return fourteen sophomores and bring in nine talented freshmen. Prior to Trinidad State Junior College, Swazo, a native of Trinidad, was an assistant baseball coach for Trinidad High School as well as the freshmen boys basketball coach. He also worked with special needs students. From 1985 through 2005, Swazo coached in Nebraska and has more than 20 years of coaching high school baseball teams.  He also assisted in coaching clinics with the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Oklahoma State University, and Northeastern Oklahoma A & M College and was the womens JV basketball coach for one year at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Swazo holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Physical Education and minor in Special Education from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and also a degree in radio broadcasting. Coach Swazo has a goal to place his student-athletes on to a four-year institution. So far a total of 34 former Trinidad State Junior College softball players played softball and furthered their education at a four-year university. Coach Swazo helps out with many softball camps in Utah, Nevada and Colorado.  These camps are sponsored by Triple Crown and other softball organizations.  In the summer of 2015 will coach at the RMC Showcase and the Fast Pitch Masters Clinic.