Tracie Adix-Zins (born 1985) is currently the head coach of the

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softball team. She was formerly the head coach at

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from 2019 to 2024 and a player for the Blue Demons from 2003 to 2007.

Collegiate

A native of

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, Adix attended DePaul from 2003 to 2007 playing as a

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for the softball team. Her career as a player was largely successful and the 2007 season is seen as her best. Not only did she help lead the Blue Demons to the

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, she managed to achieve the honor of Big East Pitcher of the Year after a perfect 10-0 mark in conference play. Even knocking out the #3 seed

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in the final round of the Norman Super Regional. Ending the Sooner's season with a successful doubleheader of 3-0 and 7-2. Graduating from DePaul, Adix would finish her graduate degree at

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from 2008-2009. Here she would gain experience as a graduate assistant coach.

Coaching

In 2010 Adix was picked up as an assistant coach at

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. In her four years she would help lead the

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to their first and so far only conference tournament championship in 2013. Her short tenures at both

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and

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were largely uneventful yet added to her coaching experience.

DePaul

Starting the 2019 season, Adix would begin her six year tenure as the Blue Demons head coach. This was after the massively successful head coach

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, who lead the team from 1980-1987 and 1990-2018, achieving a record of 1,236-604-6 (.671). In 2021 she helped the team reach their seventh Big East regular season title and was a member of the Big East Coaching Staff of the Year. Despite a small rise during said season, following the suspended 2020 season due to the

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, the team would experience increasingly worse records. In 2024 the team would finish just 9―39 (.187), making it the worst season in program history. She was soon fired by the university.

Elmhurst

On September 10, 2024 it was announced by the Director of Athletics that Adix would become the head coach for the

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Blue Jays at

starting the 2025 season. The team would go 6―26―1 (.196).{{cite web , title=2025 Softball Cumulative Statistics , url=https://elmhurstbluejays.com/sports/softball/stats , website=Softball , publisher=Elmhurst University Athletics , access-date=August 9, 2025

References

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