Tori Raby-Gentry - Head Coach
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Office Phone: 276-328-0260 |
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Season |
Season Record |
2005 |
38-22 |
2006 |
35-16 |
2007 |
32-27 |
3 Years |
105-65 (.618) |
Tori Raby-Gentry has made her mark in her first three years of directing the Lady Cavaliers’ softball program. Her teams have claimed three Appalachian Athletic Conference crowns, two NAIA Region XII titles and the first two UVa-Wise trips to the NAIA national championships all while posting a 105-65 mark for a .618 winning percentage.
In what was to be a retooling season, the Lady Cavs’ coach molded a young team into an AAC and NAIA Region XII championship one. The team (32-27) rebounded from a disappointing runner-up finish in the AAC tournament to sweep the region title and second trip to the NAIA national championships.
For the 2006 campaign, the Lady Cavs produced another solid year under Raby-Gentry. UVa-Wise (35-16) swept through the AAC tournament to claim their first tournament title, tied for the AAC regular season crown and advanced in the NAIA Region XII playoffs before falling in the loser’s bracket final.
In her first year in 2005, the talented softball general guided the UVa-Wise team to the first NAIA national championship appearance in program history. The Lady Cavs finished 38-22 on the season while picking up both the AAC regular season and first NAIA Region XII titles.
Raby-Gentry came to UVa-Wise after spending the 2004 campaign as an assistant coach for the pitchers and catchers at the highly-successful NCAA Division II Presbyterian (SC) College program. She helped the Blue Hose pitching staff to an impressive 1.80 ERA.
Before coaching at Presbyterian, she led St. Catherine College (Ky.) to its first winning season and a school-best 26-18 mark.
Raby-Gentry served a two-year stint as an assistant coach at Motlow State Community College in Lynchburg, Tenn. before going to St. Catherine College.
The Fayetteville, Tenn. native recently was named the new UVa-Wise assistant athletic director. The third-year coach is also an instructor in the college’s physical education department.
She is a 2000 graduate of Tennessee Wesleyan College where she was an all-conference and all-region performer. The head coach earned her master’s degree in physical education at Middle Tennessee State University in 2001. Coach Raby-Gentry is married to Chad Gentry, the college’s director of bookstore operations.
(updated last -- 2/20/08)
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