Casey Price joined the Pioneer softball coaching staff in August 2016 and oversees the pitching staff and outfielders.
Price most recently served as a pitching consultant/volunteer coach at Florida Tech University. She helped the Panthers' pitching staff to a 26-8 record in 2016. Price also was an instructor at Florida Tech’s summer camp the past two years, as well as doing private pitching and hitting instruction in her home state of Iowa.
Price was head coach at Oswego State from 2010-2014. In 2013, Price was named SUNYAC Sandra Hollander Coach of the Year after guiding the Lakers to a 17-20 overall record and a 9-9 conference record to earn the second consecutive sixth seed in the SUNYAC Championships. She took the Lakers to three SUNYAC Championships during her four-year tenure.
In the 2013 conference tournament, the Lakers were the first No. 6 seed in SUNYAC history to knock of the No. 1 seed. In three seasons, she has coached four All-SUNYAC players, including a first-team All-SUNYAC performer and ECAC Upstate All-Star first-team honoree.
Prior to coaching at Oswego State, she served as a volunteer assistant pitching coach at Division II University of Massachusetts at Lowell and a volunteer assistant pitching coach at SUNY Plattsburgh. Price has also been an active clinician and private instructor in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Oklahoma since 1992.
Price competed collegiately at the University of Oklahoma where she was recruited as a pitcher after being a three-time all-state high school player in Iowa before converting to an outfielder. She was named Freshman Female Athlete of the Year at Oklahoma, and was later placed into the Oklahoma Women's Athletic Hall of Fame as the first player to score a run at the Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.
Price received her bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Oklahoma in 1992. She continued her graduate studies and completed her Elementary Education degree, also at the University of Oklahoma. Price received her Master of Science degree in Education from SUNY Oswego in 2000. She had been a teacher in the Baldwinsville Central School District in New York since 1999 and returned to her home state in 2015 to continue teaching. She is currently teaching in the Newton School District.
