Kimmi Hayden is in her third year as head softball coach at CBU. In her first two years, her teams have rewritten the CBU school record books. Her 2011 team set school team records for slugging percentage and home runs, and in her first two years, both of her teams ranked in the top five in school history in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs, home runs, runs batted in, and total bases. In 2011, she coached players to school individual season records in batting average, on-base percentage, and home runs.
She has coached four All-GSC players, including 2011 GSC Freshman of the Year Marie Joiner, and two Academic All-GSC players.
A native of San Diego, Calif., Hayden was a three-year letter winner at catcher for Memphis before suffering a career-ending shoulder injury.
She hit .290 in her three years, playing 150 games and hitting 19 doubles and 10 homers with 66 RBI. She ended ranked first all-time in Memphis history with a school-record .990 fielding percentage and runners picked off, caught stealing, and chances. She hit both the first home run in Lady Tiger softball history and the first home run at Tiger Stadium. Hayden also hit a solo home run against the 2008 National Champions- Arizona State University.
Hayden hit .275 as a freshman, earning a spot on the All-Conference USA Freshman team. As a junior, she hit .311 in 40 games before being derailed by injury. She was named the Lady Tiger Defensive Player of the Year as well.
A seven-time Tiger 3.0 Club member, she was named to the Dean's List four times and was a four-time member of the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll. She won the Arthur Ashe Sports Scholar Award as a junior, and she was named to the Tiger Top Academic 30 as one of the top thirty GPA's in the athletics department.
She graduated from Memphis Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Education, majoring in Sport and Leisure Management.
