In her fourth season, Flowers guided the 2024 Lions to a second-place finish in the WCC with a 9-7 conference record and an overall record of 28-25. Highlights of the season included a 4-0 victory over the #14 ranked Oregon Ducks and winning the Spring Fling Tournament in Hawaii, where four Lions were named to the All-Tournament Team.
In 2023, Flowers led the Lions to a 28-22 overall record and a 12-3 conference record, finishing first in the conference. The team advanced to the NCAA Championship Tournament, competing against the Florida Gators and Long Beach in the Regionals.
During the 2022 season, the Lions finished with a 37-17 overall record and a 13-2 conference record, tying for first place with BYU. By winning their final series against Santa Clara, LMU earned an automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Championship Tournament. The Lions defeated Ole Miss 4-2 in the first round but were eliminated after losing the next two games. Nonetheless, the season succeeded, marking their third regional appearance in school history.
In her first season leading the Lions, Flowers led the LMU softball team to a 22-21 record in the 2021 season, securing second place in the conference with a 10-5 record.
After the season, Flowers served as an assistant coach for Team USA Softball at the Tokyo Olympics, where the team earned a silver medal.
Flower is an Olympic medalist, having won gold with the USA national softball team at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. She is also the second-winningest coach in CSUN’s Matadors softball program and was a standout athlete at UCLA
Flowers accumulated 259 Division I wins in her 10 seasons leading the Matadors. In 2015, she was named Big West Conference Coach of the Year after leading the team to the NCAA tournament after winning the conference title outright.
“I’m thrilled with the opportunity to lead the LMU softball team and eager to build upon the success and tradition of the program,” Flowers said. “I have great respect for the prestige of the university and the vision of LMU Athletics, and I’m looking forward to coaching some very talented student-athletes.”
At UCLA, Flowers helped the Bruins to four consecutive College World Series appearances and a national championship win in 2003. The two-time All-American (2001, 2003) batted .373 with 61 home runs, 59 doubles, seven triples, and 228 RBIs and ranks second on UCLA’s all-time list in home runs, games played (252, all of which were starts), RBIs, and total bases (252). She was named to the Pac-12 Conference’s All-Century Softball Team and was inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in November 2019.
Flowers played for the U.S. national softball team from 2001-08. In addition to winning gold at the Athens Olympic Games, the team won silver in Beijing in 2008 and a pair of gold medals at the 2002 and 2006 world championships.
Flowers graduated from UCLA with a history degree in 2005. She and her husband, Jason Flowers, have three children: daughters Jasmine and Tristyn and son Jayce.
