Lori Perez Title: Assistant Coach Experience: 5th Year Alma Mater: Sacramento State, '02 Email: lori.perez@csus.edu Bio:     Lori Perez (formerly Meixner), who played four years for the Sacramento State softball team (1999-02), enters her fifth season as the team's assistant coach. A team captain and all-conference selection during her playing career, Perez serves as the pitching coach, bench coach and first-base coach while also working with the catchers, and assisting with recruiting.     Since Perez became the team's pitching coach in 2005, Hornet pitchers have accounted for six all-conference selections, including at least one every season. Both Brittani Clifford and Kayla Meeks received the honor last season after Meeks was fourth in the conference in wins (14) and Clifford set the school record (and ranked fifth in the nation) with six saves.         Perez coached the 2005 and 2006 pitching staffs to ERAs of 1.88 and 2.42, respectively. Sacramento State’s total of 396 strikeouts in 2006 were just four shy of the school record of 400, set in 1995. In addition, Hornet pitchers allowed opponents just a .217 batting average that season. The 1.88 ERA in 2005 is the staff's second best mark in the last nine years.       Prior to her coaching stint at Sacramento State, Perez had been the lead instructor at Kelly Jackson’s All-American Softball School in West Sacramento, Calif., from 2003-04. She also spent time as the head varsity coach at Center High School (Antelope, Calif.) for two years (2003-04). Current Sacramento State player Rachel Miles and former Hornet Amy Jo McKenzie played for Perez during her tenure at Center High School.       Perez, who was a four-year starter for the Hornets, remains the program leader in career fielding assists (495). The Petaluma, Calif., native appeared in 196 games (including 190 starts) at second base, shortstop and third base during her four-year tenure as a student-athlete at Sacramento State.       In the Hornet career Div. I record book, Perez still ranks first in assists and sixth in walks. A team captain during both her junior and senior seasons with the Hornets, Perez earned all-Big West Conference honors in 2001 and started all but one game during her final two years with the program.       Perez who resides in Sacramento, graduated from Sacramento State in the fall of 2002 with a degree in communication studies. She married Alex Perez in July of 2009.

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