University of Houston, Victoria Women's Softball

Ortiz begins her ninth season with the Jaguars after serving four years as an assistant coach and competing for two seasons at UHV as the starting first baseman. During Ortizs two seasons as a Jaguar, she helped UHV win its first Association of Independent Institutions Conference title and make its first appearance at the NAIA National Championships. She served as the Jaguars team captain for both her junior and senior seasons. Ortiz is second all-time for most putouts at UHV with 696 and has a .990 fielding average. She also was named to the NFCA All-Region team in 2008 and received All-American Academic accolades in 2009.   Monica Strube begins her first season as an assistant softball coach at the University of Houston-Victoria. Strube previously served as a graduate assistant coach for Cameron University and an assistant coach for the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Prior to her coaching career, she played three seasons at UM-St. Louis and a year at NCAA Division I, Eastern Illinois. She was also part of the American International Softball Italy Tour in 2012. She earned her Bacehlor of Science in Education in 2013 from UM-St. Louis and her Masters of Education in 2015 from Carmeron University. She is a native of Lemont, Ill.