Lourdes University Athletics

Tami Summers joined the Lourdes University softball staff in the fall of 2019 as an assistant coach.

Her first season with the Gray Wolves was cut short after nine games due to COVID-19.  The Gray Wolves had five players from that team earn Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference All-Academic Team honors and along with five players being named NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

Summers has been a private pitching instructor since 1990 and has a vast coaching resume at the collegiate level.  She spent two seasons as the head coach at the University of Toledo and another as an assistant while also serving three years as an assistant at Bowling Green State University.  She also played two years of professional softball in Italy.

A standout pitcher during her collegiate days at Toledo, she still holds the Mid-American Conference record for career earned run average (0.57).  She also left the Rocket program as the career leader in shutouts (43), strikeouts (642), and wins (71), records that have since been broken. 

Summers was a three-time All-MAC selection for the Rockets and was the program’s first Mideast All-Region honoree.  She was inducted into the University of Toledo Hall of Fame in 1992 and was named the Rockets’ Athlete of the Decade.

A 1987 graduate of Toledo, Summers holds a bachelor’s degree in communications.