Lake Forest College Softball
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Career Highlights Second year as head coach at Lake Forest Directed the softball programs at Milsaps College for six years and Dakota Wesleyan University for one Has directed players to 45 all-conference selections, including five conference player of the year awards, and 41 academic all-conference honors in his career 2003 SCAC Coach of the Year Chicago area native, taught and coached at Chicago's Resurrection High School

The 2008 season will be Joe Kinsella's second year at Lake Forest College and ninth as a collegiate head coach.

Kinsella led the 2007 Foresters to a 20-16 overall record and a 12-1 mark in Midwest Conference play. Lake Forest finished first in the league's South Division standings and made its eighth consecutive trip to the four-team MWC Championship Tournament. However, the squad fell to St. Norbert College in the championship game.

The 2007 season was among the most productive offensive years in team history. Under Kinsella's direction, the squad set school records for runs scored, doubles, home runs, total bases, and slugging percentage, and ranked among the top five in program history in batting average, on-base percentage, base hits, triples, walks, and stolen bases. Both of the team's regular starting pitchers posted winning records and they combined to throw 28 complete games, tied for the fifth-highest total in team history.

Four Foresters earned First Team All-Midwest Conference South Divisin honors in 2007, including MWC South Pitcher of the Year Kendra Grant and the division's Co-Position Players of the Year Christy Condon and Shelby Neill. Mallory Norton was also a First Team selection and Hannah Michal and Tracy Rainey were Second Team choices. Condon and Neill were also named Second Team All-Great Lakes region by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and Rainey earned Third Team honors. Five Lake Forest players were named Academic All-Midwest Conference.

Kinsella was the head coach at Millsaps College for six years before coming to Lake Forest. He took over a 1-26 program at Milsaps and directed it to three Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference West Division championships, one league title, and an NCAA Regional third-place finish. Individual Lady Majors were named All-SCAC 38 times, earned 36 Academic All-SCAC honors, and were voted SCAC Players of the Year twice during his six seasons. He was named the conference’s Coach of the Year in 2003. He also founded and directed Joe Kinsella’s Major Impact Softball Camps LLC, which he ran throughout Mississippi during the summer. In addition to softball, he was an assistant football coach from 2000-03.

Prior to coaching at Millsaps, Kinsella was the head coach at Dakota Wesleyan University for one year, an assistant softball and football coach at Illinois Wesleyan University for two seasons, a campus minister at St. Patrick High School in Chicago, Illinois for a year, and a softball, track & field, and cross country coach at Resurrection High School in Chicago for three seasons.

Kinsella graduated from Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, Illinois, and Illinois Wesleyan University. His high school football team captured a state title and his college squad advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

He resides in Lake Forest with his wife Kristen and children Aiden, Caeli, and Zoe.

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