Tairia Flowers

Tairia Flowers
Flowers in 2008
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamLoyola Marymount
ConferenceWCC
Biographical details
Born (1981-01-09) January 9, 1981 (age 43)
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Playing career
2000–2003UCLA
2005Arizona Heat
Position(s)First base, catcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Softball
2006UC Riverside (asst.)
2007–2010Long Beach State (asst.)
2011–2020Cal State Northridge
2021–presentLoyola Marymount
National team
2019USA Women's Softball (asst.)
Head coaching record
Overall259–263 (.496)
TournamentsNCAA Division I: 0–2
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
As player:

As head coach:

Awards
  • First-team NFCA All-American (2003)
  • Second-team NFCA All-American (2001)
  • 2× first-team All-Pac-10 (2001, 2003)
  • Second-team All-Pac-10 (2002)
  • 3× WCWS All-Tournament (2000, 2001, 2003)
Medal record
Women's softball
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team competition
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Team competition

Tairia Mims Flowers (born January 9, 1981) is an African-American former collegiate All-American, medal-winning Olympian, softball player and current head coach at Loyola Marymount.[1][2][3] She played college softball as a third baseman for the UCLA Bruins from 2000 to 2003, winning a national championship in 2003 and ranking top-five in school career RBIs and home runs.[4] Flowers also helped them to two runner-up finishes and was named a three-time All-Tournament honoree.[5][6] Flowers won a gold and silver medal as part of Team USA at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Tairia Flowers". Lmulions.com. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  2. ^ "2001 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". NFCA.org. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  3. ^ "2003 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". NFCA.org. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  4. ^ "Career Season Records" (PDF). Uclabruins.com. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  5. ^ "UCLA WCWS Stats 2003". NCAA.org. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  6. ^ "Division I Championships" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  7. ^ "Tairia Flowers". teamusa.org. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  8. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tairia Flowers". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020.