| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Elmhurst |
| Conference | CCIW |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Edmonds, Washington, U.S. |
| Alma mater | DePaul, South Dakota State |
| Playing career | |
| 2003–2007 | DePaul |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2008–2009 | SD State (Grad. asst.) |
| 2010–2014 | Wisconsin (asst.) |
| 2015 | Oklahoma State (asst.) |
| 2016–2018 | NC State (asst.) |
| 2019–2024 | DePaul |
| 2025–present | Elmhurst |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 131-159-1 (.452) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
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Tracie Adix-Zins (born 1985) is currently the head coach of the Elmhurst University softball team. She was formerly the head coach at Depaul University from 2019 to 2024 and a player for the Blue Demons from 2003 to 2007.
A native of Edmonds, Washington, Adix attended DePaul from 2003 to 2007 playing as a pitcher for the softball team. Her career as a player was largely successful and the 2007 season is seen as her best. Not only did she help lead the Blue Demons to the 2007 Women's College World Series, she managed to achieve the honor of Big East Pitcher of the Year after a perfect 10-0 mark in conference play. [1] Even knocking out the #3 seed Oklahoma in the final round of the Norman Super Regional. Ending the Sooner's season with a successful doubleheader of 3-0 and 7-2. [2]
Graduating from DePaul, Adix would finish her graduate degree at South Dakota State University from 2008-2009. Here she would gain experience as a graduate assistant coach.
In 2010 Adix was picked up as an assistant coach at University of Wisconsin. In her four years she would help lead the Badgers to their first and so far only conference tournament championship in 2013. [3]
Her short tenures at both Oklahoma State University and North Carolina State University were largely uneventful yet added to her coaching experience.
Starting the 2019 season, Adix would begin her six year tenure as the Blue Demons head coach. This was after the massively successful head coach Eugene Lenti, who lead the team from 1980-1987 and 1990-2018, achieving a record of 1,236-604-6 (.671). In 2021 she helped the team reach their seventh Big East regular season title and was a member of the Big East Coaching Staff of the Year. [4] Despite a small rise during said season, following the suspended 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team would experience increasingly worse records. In 2024 the team would finish just 9―39 (.187), making it the worst season in program history. She was soon fired by the university. [5]
On September 10, 2024 it was announced by the Director of Athletics that Adix would become the head coach for the Division III Blue Jays at Elmhurst University starting the 2025 season. [6] The team would go 6―26―1 (.196). [7]