UTEP softball head coach fired with season to start soon

Isaiah Ramirez, Staff Reporter • November 8, 2019

UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter announced on Friday that softball head coach Tobin Echo-Hawk will not return for the 2020 season.

UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter announced Friday that softball head coach Tobin Echo-Hawk will not return for the 2020 season.

Echo-Hawk coached the Miners for six seasons from 2014-2019 compiling a record of 104-207 and a 57-87 mark in Conference-USA play. Last season the Miners had an overall record of 17-33 with a 10-14 record in conference play. UTEP fell to Middle Tennessee 4-3 in the first round of the Conference-USA tournament.

“We thank Tobin for her service to UTEP and the Miner softball program,” Senter said. “Due to this being a personnel matter, there will be no further comment.”

Echo-Hawk is now the third head coach in the UTEP Athletics program to be fired since Senter has taken over as the Athletic Director in 2017 following the volleyball and soccer team.

Plans for future leadership of the UTEP softball program are to be announced.

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Isaiah Ramirez

Isaiah Ramirez is a senior multimedia journalism major at the University of Texas at El Paso. Isaiah has worked for the university’s paper The Prospector since Spring 2018 and has held the position as a sports editor and is currently a reporter at the publication. During the fall semesters he also works as an on-air reporter for Football Friday Nights a weekly radio show showcasing local football games broadcasted by 600 ESPN El Paso. He covers local news as well as local and UTEP sporting events such as football, men’s and women’s basketball, and has covered the annual Hyundai Sun Bowl game and two-time NBA champion Danny Green’s basketball camp here in the Sun City.