After three years as head coach, Kristin Silva has resigned as head softball coach at Seward. The Saints went 18-32 this spring and 10-22 in Jayhawk Conference play. The Saints were 11-11 at French Family Field but 5-17 on the road. She finishes 65-88 at SCCC. She came on in 2023 to replace Casady Webb who took a head coaching job at Northwestern Oklahoma State.
Silva led Seward County to their best season since the 2018 campaign during her second year as the head coach for the Lady Saints in 2024. Seward County ended the season with a 26-23 overall record while going 19-13 in KJCCC action for fifth place finish following the regular season. An eight-game win streak with sweeps over Garden City, Barton, NW Kansas Tech, and Pratt to climb as high as third in the standings before entering the Region VI Tournament as the five seed. Her first year was a 21-33 season in her first year in 2023.
The next head coach will be Seward’s ninth. Casady Webb coached one season. Webb’s Saints were 26-27 and took fifth in the Jayhawk with a 14-18 conference record in 2022. Christy Valdez coached in 1999, Brian Shearer in 2000 and 2001. Craig Martin in 2002. Andrea Gustafson is the program’s most winning coach from 2003 to 2017 with a record of 578-309. Abby Bolton coached in 2018, Ryan Wondrasek in 2019, 2020, and 2021, and Webb coached in 2022. Seward last won the Jayhawk in 2018. They also won the KJCCC in 2005, 2009, and 2010. Seward finished 7th in the NJCAA Tournament in 2009 and 9th at the NJCAA Tournament in 2010.
Silva spent seven seasons with Lamar Community College and competed in Region IX from the 2016 to 2022 seasons. While at Lamar, Silva won 143 games in six seasons with the program with her best season being in 2018 when she led Lamar to a 35-18 overall record and a 24-6 conference record.
Before Silva’s time at Lamar, she was the assistant coach at the University of Puget Sound (2012-15) and coached an 18U program in Tacoma, Washington. From 2010 to 2012, Silva worked as the assistant softball coach at 5A Fruita Monument High School in Fruita, Colorado, where their record was 59-11. The team qualified for the CHSAA State Tournament yearly, including appearances in the Elite Eight in 2012, Semi-Finals in 2011, and Quarter-Finals in 2010.
Coach Silva, a Hawaiian native.
