Northwest University Athletics

Pam Fink joined the NU staff as head softball coach in the fall of 2018 after 25 years at the helm of Oklahoma Baptist University and now is the all-time leader in softball wins at two colleges.
 
In her first season at NU, the Eagles won 13 games, tying the school record for wins in a season. The team also recorded its first four-game win streak and its first Cascade Collegiate Conference sweep of an opponent.
 
She guided her OBU teams to the 2017 National Christian College Athletics Association national championship and the NAIA National Tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2014. Fink earned the 2017 NCCAA National Coach of the Year award, as well as 2002 Sooner Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors. She left OBU after the 2018 season with 645 wins – the most wins in OBU history among women’s sports. While at OBU, the softball program generated three National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America Scholar Team Top Ten awards, including the national academic champions of 2001, and produced 26 NAIA All-America Scholar Athletes.
 
Fink graduated from OBU in 1988 with a bachelor of education degree in health, physical education and recreation after a playing career as a four-year starter at shortstop. She was a 1988 second-team All-American and was inducted into the OBU Hall of Fame in 2001. She earned a master of education degree from East Central University in 1997. As a player, she is one of only six Lady Bison softball players to earn NAIA All-America honors. She was All-District 9 for three years and holds the OBU record for season batting average. A career starter at shortstop and clean-up hitter, she is the all-time leader in assists. Her career .342 batting average is third all-time, behind two players whom she coached. She also carried a career .344 batting average against All-American pitchers, including a 1-2 outing against two-time Olympic gold medalist Michele Smith.
 
After a year as a graduate assistant at OBU, Fink started the softball program at Sumter County Comprehensive High School and was 1990 Americus Times-Recorder All-Area Softball Coach of the Year. She also coached girls’ basketball at SCCHS.
 
A native of Dickson, Tennessee, Fink is the wife of NU Sports Information Director Ray Fink. They have two grown children, Fletcher Davis and Collin Fink. The Finks attend CrossPointe Church in Bothell and reside in Kirkland.
 
Coach Fink has taught Sunday School at the preschool level and volunteered as an overnight host with the Family Promise homeless ministry. She enjoys hiking, visiting National Parks, visiting with her children and spending time with her husband.

Pam Fink at NU
 

Year	Overall W-L	Conference W-L	Comment
2022	16-32	11-19	School record all-time coaching wins, NU wins in a season
2021	8-30	7-20	Covid-19 Season
2020	4-19	2-7	Season halted by Covid-19 Pandemic
2019	13-31	7-20	Tied program record for single season wins, first CCC series sweep
NU Career	41-112	27-66	All-time Coaching Wins leader for NU Softball

 
 





At Oklahoma Baptist
 

Year	W-L	Comment
1994	22-21
1995	21-19
1996	18-26
1997	27-27
1998	30-27
1999	32-27
2000	24-18
2001	29-23
2002	43-15	Sooner Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, Fourth Place at NAIA World Series
2003	38-17	NAIA World Series
2004	9-35
2005	25-22
2006	14-36
2007	20-30
2008	22-34
2009	29-29
2010	29-25
2011	33-18
2012	22-30
2013	33-23
2014	46-17	NAIA Opening Round, School Record Single Season Wins
2015	18-30
2016	17-35
2017	28-29	NCCAA National Champions, NCCAA Coach of the Year
2018	16-31
OBU Career	645-644	All-Time Winningest coach in all OBU women's sports
CAREER	686-756	Owns single season coaching wins and all-time coaching wins records at two universities