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Tairia Flowers

Flowers in 2008
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Loyola Marymount
Conference	WCC
Biographical details
Born	(1981-01-09) January 9, 1981 (age 43) Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Playing career
2000–2003	UCLA
2005	Arizona Heat
Position(s)	First base, catcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Softball
2006	UC Riverside (asst.)
2007–2010	Long Beach State (asst.)
2011–2020	Cal State Northridge
2021–present	Loyola Marymount
National team
2019	USA Women's Softball (asst.)
Head coaching record
Overall	259–263 (.496)
Tournaments	NCAA Division I: 0–2
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
As player: Women's College World Series (2003) 2× WCWS runner-up (2000, 2001) Pac-10 (2002) As head coach: Big West (2015)
Awards
First-team NFCA All-American (2003) Second-team NFCA All-American (2001) 2× first-team All-Pac-10 (2001, 2003) Second-team All-Pac-10 (2002) 3× WCWS All-Tournament (2000, 2001, 2003)
Medal record Women's softball Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team competition 2008 Beijing Team competition

Tairia Mims Flowers (born January 9, 1981) is an African-American former collegiate All-American, medal-winning Olympian, softball player and current head coach at Loyola Marymount. She played college softball as a third baseman for the UCLA Bruins from 2000 to 2003, winning a national championship in 2003 and ranking top-five in school career RBIs and home runs. Flowers also helped them to two runner-up finishes and was named a three-time All-Tournament honoree. Flowers won a gold and silver medal as part of Team USA at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics.

Early life and college career

Born Tairia Mims in Tucson, Arizona, Flowers graduated from Salpointe Catholic High School in 1999 and played on the UCLA Bruins softball team from 2000 to 2003 at first base and catcher. Helping UCLA make the championship game of the 2000 Women's College World Series, Mims hit .600 for the series and made the All-Tournament team. UCLA also were runners-up in the 2001 Women's College World Series and won the 2003 Women's College World Series. Flowers was a first-team NFCA All-American and first-team All-Pac-10 honoree in 2003.

College Statistics

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International career

As a member of the United States women's national softball team beginning in 2001, Flowers won gold at the 2002 Women's Softball World Championship, 2003 Pan American Games, 2004 Summer Olympics, 2006 World Cup of Softball, and 2007 Pan American Games and silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Professional playing career

In 2005, Flowers played for the Arizona Heat of National Pro Fastpitch.

Coaching career

In 2006, Flowers was an assistant coach at UC Riverside. From 2007 to 2010, Flowers was an assistant coach at Long Beach State, during which Long Beach State made the NCAA Tournament in 2008 and 2009.

Beginning in 2011, Flowers became head coach at Cal State Northridge. Upon the conclusion of the COVID-19 shortened 2020 season, Flowers had an overall 259-263 record, with her first winning season in 2014 with a 31–26. She is the second-winningest coach in CSUN history. In 2015, Flowers led Cal State Northridge to a 41–17 record (16–5 in the Big West Conference) with an NCAA Tournament appearance and the program's first sole Big West title. In fall 2020 Flowers was named as the head coach at Loyola Marymount University.

Personal life

She is married to Jason Flowers.

Head coaching record

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References

1. "Tairia Flowers". Lmulions.com. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
2. "2001 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". NFCA.org. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
3. "2003 NSCA Division I All-America Teams". NFCA.org. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
4. "Career Season Records" (PDF). Uclabruins.com. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
5. "UCLA WCWS Stats 2003". NCAA.org. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
6. "Division I Championships" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
7. "Tairia Flowers". teamusa.org. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
8. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tairia Flowers". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020.
9. ^ "Tairia Mims". UCLA. Archived from the original on April 6, 2004. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
10. "2002-03 Softball Year in Review". Pacific-10 Conference. July 14, 2003. Archived from the original on June 27, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
11. "Final 2000 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
12. "Final 2001 Softball Statistics Report" (PDF). Ncaa.org. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
13. "Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics". Ncaa.org. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
14. ^ "Tairia Flowers". Long Beach State. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
15. ^ "Tairia Flowers - 2018 Softball Coaching Staff - CSUN". Cal State Northridge. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
16. ^ "NCAA Statistics".
17. "2015 Softball Schedule".
18. Kinney, Ellie (October 27, 2020). "Meet Tairia Flowers, the accomplished new coach of LMU softball". The Los Angeles Loyolan. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
19. CSUN record book, p. 3

External links

• Player profile at USA Softball at the Wayback Machine (archived October 13, 2004)
• Tairia Flowers at Team USA (archive February 3, 2022)
• Tairia Flowers at Olympics.com
• Tairia Flowers at Olympedia (archive)

v t e United States roster – 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalists
2 Jessica Mendoza 3 Lovieanne Jung 6 Crystl Bustos 8 Cat Osterman 11 Tairia Flowers 12 Kelly Kretschman 14 Monica Abbott 16 Lisa Fernandez 19 Vicky Galindo 26 Caitlin Lowe 27 Jennie Finch 28 Andrea Duran 29 Natasha Watley 31 Jenny Topping 33 Stacey Nuveman 34 Alicia Hollowell 37 Lauren Lappin 44 Laura Berg
Head coach: Mike Candrea Assistant coaches: Chuck D'Arcy Karen Johns John Rittman

v t e United States roster – 2020 Summer Olympics silver medalists
1 Aubree Munro 2 Ali Aguilar 3 Ally Carda 4 Amanda Chidester 7 Kelsey Stewart 8 Haylie McCleney 9 Janie Reed 14 Monica Abbott 16 Michelle Moultrie 20 Valerie Arioto 21 Rachel Garcia 34 Dejah Mulipola 38 Cat Osterman 48 Bubba Nickles 99 Delaney Spaulding
Manager: 0 Ken Eriksen Coaches: Laura Berg Howard Dobson Tairia Flowers Heather Tarr

• 1981 births
• Living people
• Softball coaches from Arizona
• UCLA Bruins softball players
• UC Riverside Highlanders softball coaches
• Olympic softball players for the United States
• Olympic gold medalists for the United States in softball
• Olympic silver medalists for the United States in softball
• Softball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Softball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Softball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
• Sportspeople from Tucson, Arizona
• Softball players from Arizona
• Latter Day Saints from Arizona
• Cal State Northridge Matadors softball coaches
• United States women's national softball team coaches
• Pan American Games competitors for the United States