Katie Repole

Clemson Softball Head Coach John Rittman announced the addition of Katie “Crash” Repole to the 2024-25 staff. Repole joins the staff as an assistant coach and serves as the recruiting coordinator, working with the team’s defense and scouting.

In her first year with the program, Clemson claimed more ‘firsts’ as the program won its first ACC Tournament Championship and won its first super regional game. Finishing with a 48-14 record, the Tigers reached new heights by surpassing 300 games as a program with a home win against Boston College on April 17, surpassing the 200 win mark with an 11-3 victory against Lafayette and reaching 100 wins in ACC play with an 8-2 win at Georgia Tech to conclude the regular season. The Tigers made program history with three comeback wins during the ACC Tournament, was selected as a national seed for the third time in four years and won the program’s first super regional game with a 7-4 victory at Texas. The Tigers had seven players garner All-ACC honors and a program-record eight be named to an NFCA All-District team. Working with the Clemson defense, the Tigers finished with a program-record 1227 putouts with sophomore first baseman Julia Knowler 381 putouts in 2025. Offensively, Clemson put up program records in 12 categories.

Repole joined the staff after previously serving as an assistant coach at South Carolina where she was the recruiting coordinator, a defensive coordinator and camp director. With the Gamecocks, she secured back-to-back nationally ranked recruiting classes, specifically the 11^th ranked incoming freshman class in 2024 and the No. 2 ranked transfer portal class. Under her guidance, South Carolina made two-consecutive NCAA Regional finals, as well as finished in the top 10 defensively in fielding percentage (2023) and doubles plays (2024). Last season, Repole helped develop one All-American, one All-Region, one All-SEC and two SEC Player of the Weeks while helping South Carolina to a Top 25 RPI finish.

Before her time with the Gamecocks, Repole had a two-year stint with Texas A&M where she served as the recruiting coordinator, outfield coach, assistant infield and hitting coach. She helped the Aggies ink nine Top 100 players over the two years and developed one All-American, two All-Region, three All-SEC and two SEC Player of the Weeks. Familiar with the ACC, Repole was an assistant coach at Virginia from 2016-19. With her guidance, the Cavaliers set all-time single-season records for home runs, extra base hits and slugging percentage, while placing in the top 10 for doubles, hits, total bases and RBIs. The Cavaliers won the second-most ACC games in a single-season in program history while she was on staff, and she developed two First Team All-Region selections, three All-ACC Academic players and six ACC Player of the Weeks.

Repole graduated Manga Cum Laude from Louisiana in 2016 with a bachelors in general studies.