Lynn Coutts named senior associate director of athletics
University of Maine Director of Athletics Karlton Creech has announced the promotion of head softball coach Lynn Coutts to senior associate director of athletics. Mike Coutts, the associate head coach of softball, has been named head coach.
Lynn Coutts was hired in fall 2010 as the head softball coach and spent the previous four seasons at the helm of the Black Bears. In her new role, she will oversee compliance, Title IX, financial aid, student-athlete conduct, sports medicine, sports performance and equipment. She will serve as the liaison to academic support, the NCAA-designated senior woman administrator and a sport program administrator.
A member of the University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame, Lynn Coutts graduated from UMaine in 1987 following an All-American senior season.
She replaces Eileen Flaherty, who resigned to take a high school athletics director position in Massachusetts.
Mike Coutts joined the softball program as an assistant in 2012 and was promoted to associate head coach in spring 2014. A former Black Bear baseball team member and assistant Black Bear baseball coach, Mike Coutts graduated from UMaine in 1982 and earned a master’s degree in education/administration from UMaine in 1989.