Princeton University Athletics
Softball
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- salcido@princeton.edu
- Phone:
- (609) 258-2289
Trina Salcido completed her fifth season as head coach of the Princeton softball team in 2012, continuing a tenure that saw Salcido guide the Tigers to the NCAA tournament in her first season in 2008.
Named Princeton's head softball coach on June 19, 2007, Salcido was an assistant with the Tigers for three seasons from 2005-2007, two of which resulted in NCAA tournament bids. As the team's hitting coach, Salcido helped guide Princeton to a program-record 55 home runs in her first season as head coach while shattering the previous standard of 38 set in 2005. The record total put Princeton into the top 15 in Division I in home runs per game (1.12) in 2008.
The team also set an Ivy League record with 18 wins in the second season of the league's expanded 20-game schedule. During Salcido's four seasons with the program, Princeton had an Ivy League record of 54-14 with three league titles and three NCAA tournament bids.
Prior to Princeton, Salcido was the head coach of the El Camino High School (Sacramento, Calif.) varsity softball team from 2002-2004, winning league titles in all three seasons along with one sectional title. In 2003, Salcido was named the Sacramento Bee's Coach of the Year and earned an assistant coaching role with the National Pro Fastpitch All-Star Tour team that summer.
From 1999-2001, Salcido was an assistant softball coach at Sacramento City College, serving as the team's hitting instructor and conditioning coach. As a collegian, Salcido was a four-year starter at third base for the University of Oregon from 1993-96, earning honorable mention All-Pac-10 honors as a sophomore and a first-team all-region honoree as a freshman. She was named to Oregon's Female All-Decade team on April 2, 1996.
Salcido earned her bachelor’s degree in general science from Oregon in 1997 and is a certified fitness trainer. Salcido went to earn her master’s degree in kinesiology from Saint Mary’s College (Calif.) in 2007.
