Kristen Zaleski

Biography

Kristen Zaleski enters her fourth season on staff prior to the start of the 2026 season. Zaleski was hired on July 1, 2022, by head coach Mike White. Zaleski was a former volunteer assistant at Oklahoma and head coach at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Temple College. In her third season on the Forty, Zaleski helped the program reach new heights and win its first WCWS National Championship in 2025. Zaleski and the coaching staff were honored as the ATEC/NFCA National Coaching Staff of the Year following the season. The Longhorns topped Division I with 630 base hits, finished second with 460 RBI and third with a .352 batting average and 486 runs scored. They also ranked inside the top-15 in win/loss percentage (5th / .824), doubles (9th / 99), home runs (9th / 94), slugging (10th / .583) and scoring (14th / 7.15). The Longhorns nabbed three NFCA All-America selections in Reese Atwood, Teagan Kavan and Mia Scott, including Atwood becoming the program's first Diamond Sports/NFCA Catcher of the Year, to round out yet another enormous postseason awards haul. The three NFCA All-Americans for the Horns are the most by a single Longhorn squad since 2013 (Taylor Hoagland, Blaire Luna and Taylor Thom) and is just the fourth time (1998, 1999, 2013, 2025) in program history three different players were selected to a NFCA All-America team. Texas concluded its inaugural SEC season with seven All-SEC nods, with Atwood, Kavan, Scott and Joley Mitchell earning First-Team All-SEC accolades. Texas