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Head Coach Bianca Duran
On June 22, 2021, Bianca Duran was announced as the sixth CSU Pueblo Head Softball Coach in program history.
Duran comes to the ThunderWolves after spending the last five seasons at NCAA Division I Louisiana Tech University. She served as the assistant coach for four years before accepting the role of Interim Head Coach in September of 2020.
In 2021 the Lady Techsters posted a 22-30 overall record and a 10-10 mark in Conference USA play. LA Tech earned the sixth seed in the C-USA Tournament. Duran guided three student-athletes to the C-USA All-Freshman Team.
As an assistant from August 2016 until assuming the role as Interim Head Coach, Duran was primarily responsible for overseeing daily operations with the outfield, pitching staff and hitters. She developed daily practice plans and workouts, team building and mental strength training and was a future athlete recruiter.
Duran, a two-year letterwinner for the Lady Techsters in 2014 and 2015, was part of the LA Tech coaching staffs that guided the team to the 2017 C-USA Tournament title and a berth in the Tuscaloosa Regional and the 2019 C-USA regular season and tournament titles and a berth in the Baton Rouge Regionals.
The Westminster, Colo. native worked closely with Preslee Gallaway (2018 C-USA Pitcher of the Year, 3-time All-CUSA) and Krystal De la Cruz (2017 C-USA Newcomer of the Year, 2-time All-CUSA) who anchored a LA Tech staff during the conference tournament runs.
De La Cruz and Gallaway became the first LA Tech pitching duo in program history to earn all-conference honors in the same season in 2017 and then repeated the achievement in 2019. Gallaway was the program's first ever recipient of the conference Pitcher of the Year award.
Duran also worked alongside the LA Tech outfield, which boasted 2018 C-USA Player of the Year Morgan Turkoly (4-time All-CUSA) and 2019 C-USA Player of the Year Jazlyn Crowder.
The 2019 Lady Techsters won 45 games, the second most in program history, while claiming both the regular season and tournament championships. Tech broke numerous team and individual single season offensive marks along the way. Duran was part of the 2019 staff that was named the NFCA Mideast Region Co-Coaching Staff of the Year.
Prior to returning to her alma mater, Duran got started in collegiate coaching when she spent 2016 as an assistant coach at NCAA Division II California State University Stanislaus State where she worked directly with the pitchers and catchers, while also assisting with the hitters.
During her two years as a pitcher and a player in Ruston in 2014 and 2015, Duran helped elevate the Lady Techster program. As a senior she earned First Team All-Mideast Region honors by the NFCA and was named to the C-USA All-Tournament team.
Her career offensive totals in Ruston included a .295 batting average with 20 doubles, 11 home runs and 58 RBI, while she recorded a 20-32 record in the circle with a 3.25 earned run average. As a senior she was 14-13 with a 2.78 ERA and led the Lady Techsters to a 30-plus win season.
Prior to finishing her collegiate career at LA Tech, Duran spent two years at Western Nebraska Community College where she set the program record for career home runs (40), single season home runs (23), single season doubles (29), single season batting average (.545), single season hits (110), career wins and single season wins (36). She earned Region 9 Freshman of the Year and All-Region 9 honors as a freshman and Region 9 Pitcher and Player of the Year honors as a sophomore.
Duran earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana Tech in 2015 and a Master of Arts in Sports Coaching from University of Northern Colorado in 2021.
