Coaching Staff
Lea Wodach
Associate Head Softball Coach
Lea Wodach was hired in 2019 as the Assistant Softball Coach with ULM. Her duties include working with pitchers and catchers.
Wodach started 194 career games at Oklahoma including 162 at catcher and helped the Sooners claim four-straight Big 12 regular-season championships and back-to-back Women’s College World Series National Championships in 2016 and ’17.
She spent the 2019 season working as a student assistant coach at OU under National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Famer Patty Gasso, as the Sooners finished 57-6 while advancing to the WCWS championship series against UCLA.
A four-year letterwinner from 2015-18, Wodach helped the Sooners to a combined record of 224-31 (.878), including a 66-4 ledger (.943) in Big 12 games. She served as battery mate for four-time All-America pitcher Paige Parker. Her .992 career fielding percentage ranks third in OU history.
As a senior, Wodach hit .258 with eight doubles, two home runs and 20 RBI while helping OU to a perfect 18-0 record in Big 12 play and its third-straight appearance in the WCWS.
Wodach missed eight games with a hand injury as a junior in 2017 but still managed to start 50 games behind the plate as the sooners went 61-9 and won their second consecutive WCWS National Championship. The 61 wins represent the second-highest single-season total in program history.
As a sophomore in 2016, she earned second-team All-Region honors after setting career highs for batting average (.315), runs scored (32), hits (57), doubles (11), triples (2), home runs (7) and RBI (32) as OU captured its third NCAA Championship in program history.
A native of Coto de Caza, California, Wodach burst onto the scene as a freshman in 2015, hitting .297 with three doubles, five home runs and 22 RBI to go along with a .541 slugging percentage. She hit a grand slam against Central Arkansas in the NCAA Regional.
A three-time Academic All-Big 12 First-Team selection from 2016-18 with a 4.0 grade-point average, Wodach also became a two-time Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2017-18).
Wodach earned a Bachelor of Science in health and exercise science from Oklahoma in May 2019.
Daniel Shipley
Assistant Softball Coach
Daniel Shipley arrived in Monroe as an assistant softball coach before the beginning of the 2024 season.
Shipley spent the last five seasons at Butler as an assistant coach on the Bulldogs' softball staff. In 2023, Butler qualified for its third consecutive BIG EAST Tournament. The team's 12 conference victories were the second most in BIG EAST competition since the Bulldogs joined the league in 2014. The 2023 team finished the season on several of Butler's all-time Top-10 lists, including walks (first with 165), home runs (third with 38), RBI (sixth with 182), runs (ninth with 197) and hits (ninth with 360). Four players were named all-conference and one earned all-region honors.
In 2022, Shipley helped lead Butler to an overall record of 31-17 which included a school-record 16 wins in BIG EAST play, good for second place in the final regular-season standings and the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament. Three players were selected all-conference while one was named all-region.
Shipley was named a student assistant coach in the fall of 2020. Prior to that, he served on the Bulldogs coaching staff as a student manager during the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
A native of Houston, Texas, Shipley graduated from Butler in May 2022, with both a bachelor's and a master's degree in accounting.