Auburn's search for a softball coach has ended by stealing away one of the nation's best.
A little less than two weeks after the end of the Women's College World Series, the Tigers poached Arizona State's Clint Myers away from the Sun Devils in an audacious move that should send shockwaves through the college softball world.
"Thrilled to announce Coach Clint Myers as @AuburnTigersSB HC," athletic director Jay Jacobs tweeted to announce the hire.
Myers, a two-time national title winner, led Arizona State to national championships in both 2008 and 2011, took the Sun Devils to seven Women's College World Series appearances in eight years and compiled a 427-102 record during his time in Tempe.
His son, Corey, works as a softball coach for the Birmingham Thunderbolts, an elite travel ball club.
Myers will take over from Tina Deese, who was fired in May after 17 seasons as the only coach in Auburn's program history. Deese leaves a solid foundation for Myers; Auburn has reached an NCAA regional in eight of the past 10 seasons.
In that eight-year stretch, Myers never finished with fewer than 44 wins at Arizona State and put together two incredibly dominant runs to win his national titles. In 2008, the Sun Devils finished 60-6 on their way to the championship, and Arizona State topped that record with a 66-5 finish in the 2011 national championship run.
A former baseball player at Arizona State who was taken in the MLB Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1973, Myers made his name at the junior college level by coaching Central Arizona College to a 481-43 record and six national titles, including five straight, from 1987 to 1995.
From 1996 to 2005, Myers headed up Central Arizona's baseball team, leading the Vaqueros to a 406-192 record and two Junior College World Series appearances before moving on to Arizona State.
