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2003 Softball
Former UCLA standout pitcher and Wisconsin assistant coach Dee Dee Weiman enters her first season as an assistant coach under Michelle Gromacki at Cal State Fullerton. Hired to her position on Sept. 1, Weiman will work mainly with the pitching staff while assisting Gromacki with other aspects of the program. “I am excited to have DeeDee join our coaching staff,” Gromacki said. “She is the piece of the puzzle that will help our program continue to grow and build a solid foundation for future success.” Weiman spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Wisconsin, where she was in charge of coaching the Badgers’ pitching staff and also working with the catchers. During her tenure with Wisconsin, Weiman helped lead the Badgers to three straight Big Ten Tournaments and appearances in the NCAA Tournament the last two seasons. While with the Badgers, Weiman coached the school’s first-ever first-team All-Big Ten Conference pitcher in Andrea Kirchberg, who also owns nearly every pitching record at Wisconsin. This past season, Weiman, head coach Karen Gallagher and assistant coach Ali Viola were named the 2002 Speedline/NFCA Division I Mideast Region Coaching Staff of the Year, sharing the honor with the Notre Dame coaching staff. Wisconsin posted its third consecutive 30-win season and a fourth-place finish in the conference – the best in the history of the program. As a player, Weiman was a member of the 1990 and 1992 UCLA national championship-winning squads while earning All-Pacific-10 Conference honors twice in her career and first-team All-America honors as a senior in 1994. A Honda Broderick Award nominee in 1994, Weiman finished her Bruin career with a 59-13 overall record, a 0.79 ERA, 746 career strikeouts and 16 no-hitters. Weiman’s 359 strikeouts in 1994 still stand as a single-season school record. Weiman also holds the NCAA career record for strikeout ratio at 10.4 strikeouts per seven innings. She continued her playing career in the Women’s Professional Softball League, playing four seasons (1997-2000) after being drafted as the 10th selection in the second round of the 1996 Amateur Draft. Weiman won the 1999 WPSL championship with the Tampa Bay Firestix and recorded the first strikeout, complete game, victory, save and shutout in team history. She was also the first-ever pitcher to throw a perfect game in WPSL history, shutting down the Carolina Diamonds on Aug. 1, 1998. Weiman was a two-time WPSL All-Star selection in 1998 and 1999, and ranks first in league history in games started (83), complete games (70), innings (640.3) and appearances (113). She ranks second in strikeouts (446) and saves (6) while ranking third in wins (46) and shutouts (10). This season, Weiman will be reunited with her catcher on the 1993 ASA Women’s Open National Championship in Gromacki, when the duo helped lead the Redding Rebels to the national title. Weiman graduated from UCLA with a bachelors degree in sociology in 1994. She has a six-year-old son, Tyler, and resides in Fullerton.
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