Katey Gorsage enters her second season with Griffon softball in 2018.
The 2017 season was Gorsage's first as an assistant coach at Missouri Western where she helped the Griffons qualify for their fourth straight trip to the NCAA Central Regional. As a team, Missouri Western ranked fourth in the MIAA with a .297 batting average and 455 hits and third for home runs with 49. The Griffons led the league with 19 triples. MWSU had seven players named to All-MIAA honors. Katie Klosterman collected MIAA Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors with All-Region honors and Morgan Rathmann earned CoSIDA Academic All-American after becoming career leader in hits, triples, stolen bases and runs.
Gorsage comes to Missouri Western from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where she was a graduate assistant on the softball staff the past two years. In her two years as a graduate assistant, Gorsage helped lead Henderson State to a combined 78-41 record. In 2015, the Reddies recorded the program’s best overall and conference records (43-15, 27-7), winning the program’s first Great American Conference Regular Season Championship. The 2015 team also earned the program its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Division II Central Regional, advancing to the championship game. Gorsage coached two All-Americans, five All-Region selections, 14 All-GAC selections as well as the 2015 GAC Player, Pitcher and Newcomer of the Year.
Gorsage also played at Henderson State, earning both her master’s (sports administration) and bachelor’s (Psychology, minor in Biology) degrees from Henderson State. She was a four-year letterman for the Reddie Softball team. She holds the program record for at-bats (712), ranks fourth in hits (170), second in doubles (42), fourth in home runs (23) and seventh in RBIs (83). Gorsage was named All-GAC honorable mention in 2012 and was a two-time Academic All-Conference selection.
