Lonni Alameda

Alana Maree "Lonni" Alameda (born June 11, 1970) is an American softball coach who is the current head coach at Florida State. She has been head coach at Florida State since 2009, in addition to the USSSA Pride of National Pro Fastpitch from 2016 to 2017.^[1] Alameda is also currently an assistant coach for Team Canada.

Lonni Alameda

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Florida State
Conference	ACC
Record	762–214–2 (.780)
Biographical details
Born	(1970-06-11) June 11, 1970 (age 54) El Dorado Hills, California
Playing career
1989	St. Mary's (TX)
1990–1992	Oklahoma
Position(s)	Infielder, pitcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1994–1995	Barry (asst.)
1996–2003	Stanford (asst.)
2004–2008	UNLV
2009–present	Florida State
2016–2017	USSSA Pride
Head coaching record
Overall	College: 919–372–2 (.712) NPF: 97–22 (.815)
Tournaments	NCAA: 57–31 (.648) NPF: 6–4 (.600)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Women's College World Series (2018) 7× ACC regular season (2013–2018, 2023) 9× ACC tournament (2011, 2014–2019, 2022–2023)
Awards
6× ACC Coach of the Year (2013–2017, 2023) 2× MWC Coach of the Year (2005, 2007) NFCA West Region Coach of the Year (2005)

Early life and education

Alameda graduated from Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, California in 1988. After pitching at St. Mary's University, Texas in the 1989 season, during which St. Mary's made the NAIA Tournament, Alameda transferred to Oklahoma and went on to earn two second-team All-Big Eight awards on the softball team in addition to playing volleyball.^[2] Alameda graduated from Oklahoma with a communications degree in 1992 and played professional softball in the Netherlands in 1993.^[2]

Coaching career

College assistant (1994–2003)

In 1994 and 1995, Alameda was an assistant coach at Division II Barry University.^[2] From 1996 to 2003, Alameda was an assistant coach at Stanford under Sandy Pearce in 1996 and John Rittman beginning in 1997, during which Stanford went 320–179–1 and made six straight NCAA Tournaments.^[3]

UNLV (2004–2008)

After going 25–35 in her first season as head coach of UNLV in 2004, Alameda led UNLV to a historically best 44–19 record in 2005 and first NCAA Tournament appearance in nine years, for which Alameda earned Mountain West Conference (MWC) Coach of the Year honors.^[4][3][5] UNLV went 26–37 in 2006 but improved to 37–27 in 2007, Alameda's second time as MWC Coach of the Year.^[3] The 2008 UNLV team began with a 9–1–1 record and the first top-25 ranking in program history, but injuries to four starters caused the team to finish 25–40–1.^[3][4]

Florida State (2009–present)

Alameda debuted at Florida State in 2009 with a 44–19 record and NCAA Regional appearance.^[6] She led the Seminoles to the national title in 2018.

USSSA Pride (2016–2017)

Head coaching record

College

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
UNLV Rebels (Mountain West Conference) (2004–2008)
2004	UNLV	25–35	7–13	5th
2005	UNLV	44–19	17–3	2nd	NCAA Regionals
2006	UNLV	26–37	8–12	4th
2007	UNLV	37–27	12–8	2nd
2008	UNLV	25–40–1	5–15	6th
UNLV:		157–158–1 (.498)	49–51 (.490)
Florida State Seminoles (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2009–present)
2009	Florida State	44–16	17–4	2nd	NCAA Regionals
2010	Florida State	44–18	12–9	3rd	NCAA Regionals
2011	Florida State	32–28	9–11	4th	NCAA Regionals
2012	Florida State	47–16	16–5	2nd	NCAA Regionals
2013	Florida State	44–19	18–2	1st	NCAA Super Regionals
2014	Florida State	55–9	24–3	1st	Women's College World Series
2015	Florida State	49–14	20–3	1st	NCAA Super Regionals
2016	Florida State	55–10	21–2	1st	Women's College World Series
2017	Florida State	55–8–1	24–0	1st	NCAA Super Regionals
2018	Florida State	58–12	21–3	1st	WCWS Champions
2019	Florida State	55–10	19–5	1st (Atlantic)	NCAA Super Regionals
2020	Florida State	17–7	0–0	T-11th	Season canceled due to COVID-19
2021	Florida State	49–13–1	26–5–1	2nd	WCWS Runner-Up
2022	Florida State	54–7	19–5	3rd	NCAA Regionals
2023	Florida State	58–11	22–2	1st	WCWS Runner-Up
2024	Florida State	46–16	19–5	2nd	NCAA Super Regionals
Florida State:		762–214–2 (.780)	288–64–1 (.817)
Total:		919–372–2 (.712)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

NPF

Team	Year	Regular season					Post Season
		Won	Lost	Ties	Win %	Finish	Won	Lost	Win %	Result
USSSA Pride	2016	37	13	0	.740	1st in NPF	3	2	.600	NPF Runners-Up
USSSA Pride	2017	40	9	0	.816	1st in NPF	3	2	.600	NPF Runners-Up
Total		77	22	0	.778

References

1. "Coach Lonni Alameda: A humbled legacy". FSView & Florida Flambeau.
2. "Lonni Alameda". gostanford.com. Stanford University. Archived from the original on February 25, 2003. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
3. "Lonni Alameda". USSSA Pride. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
4. "NCAA Statistics: Lonni Alameda". NCAA. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
5. "Lonni Alameda". UNLV. Archived from the original on September 29, 2008. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
6. "Lonni Alameda". Seminoles.com. Florida State University. Retrieved June 5, 2018.