When Dot Richardson took over the Liberty softball program in July 2013, the coaches' offices, locker room and training room were located in double-wide trailers.
“We had a rec field,” recalled Richardson, a two-time Olympic gold medalist. “The previous staff had built the dugouts with cinder blocks and painted them blue. It was like a hobbit dugout. It was perfect for me, but everyone else had to bend down to get in it. Humble beginnings.”
Those sparse roots are part of the reason last weekend’s upset of No. 1 overall seed Texas A&M is so remarkable.