Ralph Weekly

Ralph

While at Pacific Lutheran, Weekly served as a football assistant coach in charge of special teams, including during PLU’s 1987 and 1993 national championship seasons. 

Ralph Weekly built the Pacific Lutheran softball program into a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) power, leading the Lutes to a pair of national championships in three title-game appearances.

In nine seasons at the helm of the program, Weekly led his PLU teams to a record of 300 wins and 94 losses against intercollegiate competition. During that time the Lutes won eight conference and district championships on the way to appearing at the NAIA national tournament on eight occasions. The Lutes won NAIA national championships in 1988 and again in 1992 and also placed second in 1990. A total of 10 different players earned first team All-America honors, with two of those athletes recognized twice, while Weekly coached at Pacific Lutheran.

Plenty of national honors came to Weekly during his nine-year PLU tenure. He earned NAIA National Coach of the Year honors during the two championship seasons, was named the National Softball Coaches Association Small College Coach of the Year in 1993, and received NAIA West Region Coach of the Year recognition from 1986-90 and again from 1992-94.

Weekly left PLU after the 1994 season to take over the program at NCAA Division I Tennessee-Chattanooga, where he coached for five seasons. He moved on to the University of Tennessee in 2002.

A 2011 inductee into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, Weekly has compiled more than 1,000 wins as a college softball head coach. He has also served in various capacities with USA Softball Women's National Teams. https://golutes.com/sports/2018/5/15/hall-of-fame-2012.aspx?id=499