Christi Musser Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 2nd Year

Christi Musser enters her second season at New Mexico, after joining the Lobo softball program during the summer of 2010. Musser works directly with the outfielders and assists with hitting. She helps with slappers as well as coaching third base during games. She handles the travel for UNM softball and assists with camps.

Musser spent 12 seasons with the Kansas softball program, having spent the last decade-plus as a player or coach for the Jayhawks. Musser spent the last eight years as an assistant coach at KU, beginning in 2003 after a successful four-year playing career.

Musser worked with the KU outfielders and helped develop the players' slapping and short game. She was also in charge of game day defensive strategy and served as Kansas' recruiting coordinator.

Musser, who is a three-star master coach as recognized by the National Fastpitch Coaches Conference coaching program, helped KU outfielder Dougie McCaulley earn her second consecutive All-Big 12 Team appointment in 2009. McCaulley was also a 2008 Midwest All-Region Second Team selection. In 2005, Heather Stanley, another outfielder for Kansas, was named All-Big 12 First Team.

While playing under former KU coach Tracy Bunge from 1999-2002, Musser earned All-America honors in 2002 as an outfielder. As a senior, Musser batted .354 with 35 runs, 30 RBI and nine home runs (ninth-highest home run season total in school history). In addition to being the first KU All-American since 1994, Musser was named to the 2002 All-Region and All-Big 12 teams.

A four-time All-Big 12 selection, she ranks in the top five in three offensive single-season categories at Kansas, including the third-best slugging percentage (.598). During the summers of her college career, Musser played three seasons in the Women's Major for the Arizona Storm, winning a national championship in 1999 and finishing as a runner-up in 2000.

Musser graduated from Kansas in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in sports management.

"Christi is one of the best outfield coaches I know," Beach said in summer 2010. "She was taught by some of the best and as a player was one of the best. She was a talented hitter and slapper. I look forward to seeing her bring that passion to the Lobos."

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