State Fair Community College recently announced it has hired Lyndsey Talbot as the head coach of its new softball program, which will begin play in the spring of 2017.
Talbot, a former Jefferson City Lady Jays, is an assistant softball coach at Central Methodist University where she helps with recruiting, practice and conditioning.
Talbot is part of the coaching staff that led CMU to Heart of America Athletic Conference championships in 2011, 2014 and 2015. CMU made trips to the NAIA national tournament in 2014 and 2015 and the NAIA World Series in 2015.
She was a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Regional Coaching Staff of the Year for 2014 and 2015.
Talbot played for the Lady Jays before graduating in 2007 from Lakewood Christian School in McAlester, Okla. She then played softball at CMU from 2008-10. She served as a student assistant at CMU in 2011, a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the men's and women's cross country and track and field teams at Oklahoma State University from 2011-13, and then returned to CMU, where she was a graduate assistant from 2013-15.