{"id":1766,"date":"2019-05-08T00:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2019-05-08T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T04:28:10","slug":"assistant-coaches-still-got-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/2019\/05\/08\/assistant-coaches-still-got-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Coaches Still Got Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entering her second season, Kayla Lombardo is an assistant coach for the LeHigh softball team. She had an exceptional career playing softball before becoming a coach, after graduating from Fordham University.<\/p>\n<p>A New Jersey native, Lombardo graduated from Fordham University in 2015 as magna cum laude with a degree in Communications and Media Studies with a concentration in Journalism. She was honored in all four of her seasons in the Atlantic 10 Commissioner&#8217;s Honor Roll and was a part of three Atlantic 10 Conference tournament championship teams.<\/p>\n<p>In Lombardo&#8217;s career playing for the Rams, she played a total of 191 games. She played third base her first three seasons and she switched to catcher her last season as a senior. In each of her final three seasons, Fordham reached the NCAA tournament, as well as a regional final appearance in 2015. Lombardo is a two-time first-team All-Atlantic 10 performer as well as a two-time third-team NFCA ALL-Region Selection during her career at Fordham. Some of <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/staff.aspx?staff=915\">Lombardo&#8217;s stats<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<p>-154 career hits<\/p>\n<p>-27 doubles<\/p>\n<p>-23 home runs<\/p>\n<p>-114 career runs<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1771 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/files\/2019\/05\/download-4-185x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"218\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1772 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/files\/2019\/05\/kaylalombardo-168x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before joining the LeHigh coaching staff, she worked for two years as a sports journalist for <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>. After this she worked for\u00a0<em>Excelle Sports<\/em>. She now works as an assistant coach for LeHigh&#8217;s softball team and her main focus is to help direct the team&#8217;s offensive strategies. Seton Hall versed LeHigh in a softball game on April 24, 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FINAL: Senior Emily Sorem goes the distance on a 3-hitter and Lehigh records 11 hits to take the nightcap at Seton Hall and earn the doubleheader split. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/otGUPukEn9\">pic.twitter.com\/otGUPukEn9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lehigh Softball (@Lehighsoftball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lehighsoftball\/status\/1121206914149384193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entering her second season, Kayla Lombardo is an assistant coach for the LeHigh softball team. She had an exceptional career playing softball before becoming a coach, after graduating from Fordham University. 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