Lake Forest College Softball
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Career Highlights Fifth year as head coach at Lake Forest Has led the Foresters to an 82-62-1 overall record and 41-6 mark in conference play 35 program records have been broken or tied in his four seasons at the College Earned Coach of the Year honors in the MWC (2009 and 2010) and SCAC (2003) Directed the softball programs at Milsaps College for six years and Dakota Wesleyan University for one Has directed players to 61 all-conference selections, including eight conference player of the year awards, and 49 academic all-conference honors in his career Chicago area native, taught and coached at Chicago's Resurrection High School

The 2011 season will be Joe Kinsella's fifth year at Lake Forest College and 12th as a collegiate head coach. The two-time reigning Midwest Conference South Division Coach of the Year owns an 82-62-1overall record and impressive 41-6 mark in MWC play over the last four seasons.

Kinsella directed the 2010 Foresters to a 24-14-1 overall record, a 12-1 mark in conference play, and the program's fifth consecutive MWC South Division title. Lake Forest also made its 11th straight appearance in the four-team MWC Championship Tournament where the team finished second.

Lake Forest has excelled in numerous statistical categories under Kinsella's direction. Forester players set or tied 14 program records in 2010 and 35 marks have been established or matched in the last four seasons. Lake Forest led the MWC in runs batted in, hits, doubles, home runs, and total bases each of the last four years. The Foresters have also paced the league in batting average, slugging percentage, runs, on-base percentage, stolen bases, and walks during Kinsella's tenure.

Four Foresters earned All-Midwest Conference South Division honors in 2010. Kinsella's players have now earned a league-high 22 all-conference honors in the last four years. Tracy Rainey repeated as the division's Position Player of the Year and Jordan Ratliff earned MWC South Pitcher of the Year accolades. Mallory Norton was named Second Team All-Great Lakes region by Louisville Slugger and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association while Rainey and Ratliff earned Third Team honors. A pair of Lake Forest players were named Academic All-Midwest Conference, giving the team 13 in the last four years.

Kinsella was the head coach at Millsaps College for six years before coming to Lake Forest. He took over a 1-26 program at Milsaps and directed it to three Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference West Division championships, one league title, and an NCAA Regional third-place finish. Individual Lady Majors were named All-SCAC 38 times, earned 36 Academic All-SCAC honors, and were voted SCAC Players of the Year twice during his six seasons. He was named the conference’s Coach of the Year in 2003. He also founded and directed Joe Kinsella’s Major Impact Softball Camps LLC, which he ran throughout Mississippi during the summer. In addition to softball, he was an assistant football coach from 2000-03.

Prior to coaching at Millsaps, Kinsella was the head coach at Dakota Wesleyan University for one year, an assistant softball and football coach at Illinois Wesleyan University for two seasons, a campus minister at St. Patrick High School in Chicago, Illinois for a year, and a softball, track & field, and cross country coach at Resurrection High School in Chicago for three seasons.

Kinsella graduated from Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, Illinois, and Illinois Wesleyan University. His high school football team captured a state title and his college squad advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

He resides in Lake Forest with his wife Kristen and children Aiden, Caeli, Zoe, and Greyson.

Kinsella's Year-By-Year Coaching Record at Lake Forest

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Pitching Coach Lindsey Shifley
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