Entering 2018 season
Overall record at UBC: 58-91 (.389)
Conference record at UBC (began Cascade Conference play in 2016): 24-30 (.444)
Gord Collings enters his fifth season as the head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds softball team, which played its second season as members of the Cascade Collegiate Conference in 2017, going 13-13. The squad won its last eight CCC league games to earn a playoff berth.Â
UBC went 11-17 in its inaugural campaign as members of the CCC. Before that, the Thunderbirds competed in the Association of Independent Institutions. With Collings at the helm, the T-Birds went 16-15 in 2014, and 14-27 in 2015.
Collings was named head coach on July 3, 2013, replacing the retiring Phil Thom.
A former teacher and administrator in the Delta school system for 33 years, he was the head coach at Douglas College for five seasons, leading the Royals to the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges Championship Final in 2013.
Collings graduated from UBC in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science degree. The following year he completed his Teaching Certification and eventually earned his Master of Education from UBC in 1985.
He has extensive experience coaching a variety of sports at the high school and club level. Collings has been involved with softball since 1992, originally working in Tsawwassen and Delta before moving on to Douglas College.
He led Team BC to a gold medal at the 2013 Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Que. A team that included UBC players Yasmin Bains, Alana Westerhof, and Cassandra Dypchey. In 2011 he led Team BC to a gold medal at the Western Canada Summer Games.Â
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