Spartans Softball to Hold Camp on Dec 1-2

The UD Softball team is very excited for the camp with many new faces anxious to start collegiate play. Duringthe Spartan camp, you will be working with collegiate athletes and coaching staff to enhance skills needed to succeed in high school and to prepare for the collegiate style of play. Some of the goals of the camp include: provide individual instruction to enhance skils of each student-athlete; make new friends who love softball; and aquire the advanced skills to be successful on and off the field.

Head Coach Jeff Lamb joined the University of Dubuque in July of 2018 and was named the 14th head softball coach in the school’s history. Lamb finished his fifth season as Clarke University head softball coach in Dubuque, Iowa with a 124-98 overall record. Lamb guided the Crusaders to 21 victories in his first season at Clarke (2014). A year later, Lamb's the Crusaders compiled a school-record 31 wins, posted a 15-9 record in Midwest Collegiate Conference play and qualified for the MCC Final Four. In 2017, his team broke the school record again with a 41-12 overall mark.

Lamb also coached Marshalltown Community College, Marshalltown, Iowa, where he served as the Tigers’ head softball coach for five years. During his stint at Marshalltown, Lamb’s teams set over 30 individual and team records. He served as the head softball coach at Marshalltown High School in 2012 and 2013. Lamb guided the 2012 Bobcats to the program's first state tournament appearance and coached the program’s first all-state player in over a decade.

Prior to taking the softball reins at Marshalltown, Lamb spent two seasons as the Tigers’ assistant baseball coach. He also served as a graduate assistant baseball coach at Georgia College and State University and as a volunteer assistant baseball coach at West Chester.

Lamb was a member of the National Fast Pitch Coaches Association Division II All-American Committee in 2013. He played two seasons of collegiate baseball at Marshalltown and was also a member of the baseball programs at Drexel University and West Chester University. He received his bachelor of science degree in professional studies from West Chester University, and his master of science degree in education from Iowa State University. The Fort Madison, Iowa, native resides in Dubuque with wife Rachel and their two children.