Kim Doran, Volunteer Assistant Softball Coach
Kim Doran joined the Syracuse coaching staff prior to the 2004 season. Doran is a teacher at
Nottingham High School in Syracuse and served as the head softball coach in 2003. Doran works directly with the Orange catchers, as well as assisting with hitting instruction, recruiting and game preparation.
In her first season, the Syracuse catching tandem of Jaime Grillo and Katie Kaempfer were named the team’s co-Defensive Players of the Year. Grillo led the team with a .992 fielding percentage, while Kaempfer posted a .977 fielding percentage and threw out seven out of 15 would-be base stealers (.467). SU also picked another five runners off the bases.
In 2003, she coached the Bally’s Total Fitness tournament team for girls 18 and under. Prior to that year, Doran served as the assistant coach for Fayetteville-Manlius High School.
Doran also serves as a camp coach at the Le Moyne Softball Camp and has previously been a pitcher/catcher coach at the Gillette Road camp in Cicero.
Doran played four seasons at Le Moyne College from 1996-99. She is still among the Dolphins’ all-time top 10 in games played, runs scored, home runs, runs batted in, fielding percentage and putouts.
Doran graduated from Le Moyne with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1999. Four years later she received her master’s degree in special education from the school.
