At the middle point of the season, the Knoxville Softball Squad had a sudden coaching change. Former Coach Steph Christner was let go, and promoted into the interim coaching duties was Hayley Freestone, who had just completed her sophomore season at William Penn University. Freestone was not planning on being a varsity softball coach in the near future, much less at a class 4A program. Freestone tells KNIA/KRLS Sports she sought advice from everyone from her parents, to the players. Mikayla Splavic and Chris Hudson…who is a former Panther head Softball coach, joined the program then to help Freestone. She hopes to return to the program in 2018.

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