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Rick Fremin
Rick Fremin is in his eighth season as the Southeastern Louisiana University head softball coach. Fremin became the sixth head coach in program history on July 22, 2015.
Fremin has a 204-152 mark during his time in Hammond. All of Fremin's teams have led Division I in stolen bases or stolen bases per game throughout his Southeastern tenure. Southeastern has had two NFCA Golden Shoe Award winners, two All-South Region performers, 29 All-Southland Conference honorees and 19 All-Louisiana selection under Fremin's tutelage.
In 2022, Southeastern set a new single-season school record for wins for the second time in Fremin's career, finishing 40-16 and advancing to the Southland Conference Tournament championship game for the first time in program history. The 2022 Lady Lions set single-season school team records for winning percentage, fewest losses, runs, hits, doubles, RBI, batting average, on-base percentage, total bases, slugging percentage and batters struck out.
Southeastern placed seven players - Aeriyl Mass, Bailey Krolczyk, Audrey Greely, Heather Zumo, Cam Goodman, Madison Rayner and Maddie Watson - on the All-SLC team. SLU set a school record with six All-Louisiana honorees, as Mass, Krolczyk, Greely, Zumo, Goodman and Rayner were all selected among the state's best.
The 2021 campaign saw Southeastern finish 28-23 overall and 14-10 in league action, while leading Division I with 2.96 strolen bases per game and ranking second nationally with 151 stolen bases. Southeastern placed five student-athletes - Mass, Greely, Zumo, Lindsey Rizzo and Anna Rodenberg - on the All-Southland team, while Mass, Greely and Zumo also earned spots on the All-Louisiana squad.
The 2020 season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lady Lions were 15-8 overall and 2-1 in Southland Conference play and led Division I with 2.87 stolen bases per game when the season was halted. SLU blanked Texas A&M, 8-0, to earn its first win over a Power 5 opponent under Fremin's tutelage and its first shutout of an SEC opponent since 2007.
The 2019 Southeastern team finished with a 34-23 record and led the nation in stolen bases. The Lady Lions set a new single-season school record with 227 steals - the 10th-highest total in Division I history. Under Fremin's tutelage, Jaquelyn Ramon won the Golden Shoe Award, leading the nation with 63 stolen bases - a new Southland mark and the 10th-highest total in Division I history. Ramon also finished with a Southland career record 184 steals, good for eighth in Division I history.
Ramon and Ella Manzer represented SLU on the All-South Region teams, while the duo was joined on the All-Southland Conference team by Rizzo, Madisen Blackford, Mima Doucet, Alley McDonald and Rebecca Skains. The Lady Lions also set new single-season school records for hits (465) and walks (176).
Blackford, Skains and Manzer also represented Southeastern on the Southland All-Academic teams. Perennially maintaining a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher, Fremin's squad featured nine Easton/NFCA All-American Scholar-Athletes.
Fremin's 2018 Southeastern squad was at the time, the most successful in school history, finishing 38-21 overall and 18-9 in conference play on the way to finishing tied for second in the standings. The Lady Lions not only set school records for wins - both overall and in league games - but they also set new single-season school standards for runs (319), triples (20) and RBI (253).
For the second time in Fremin's tenure, SLU led the nation in stolen bases, finishing with a then single-season school record 184. Southeastern also placed a single-season school record six student-athletes - senior Kinsey Nichols, senior Rachel Hayes, senior Mahalia Gibson, sophomore Ali McCoy, Ramon and senior Alli Daigle - on the All-Southland Conference teams.
The 2017 Lions finished tied for the national lead with 162 stolen bases and ranked second in Division I with 2.95 stolen bases per game. Ramon led the Southland Conference and ranked fifth nationally with 54 stolen bases.
Gibson became the first Lady Lion to earn Southland Conference Newcomer of the Year honors. Gibson and Nichols were both named to the All-Southland Conference and All-Louisiana teams. Southeastern also placed a then-school-record five student-athletes on the NFCA All-American Scholar Team, as junior Grace DeLee, senior Mychal Truxillo, senior Kasey Nielson, junior Maddie Edmonston and Daigle.
In his first season with Southeastern, Fremin’s 2016 squad finished atop NCAA Division I with 172 stolen bases, breaking the previous school record by over a 100 steals. Senior Katie Lacour was the national leader with 58 stolen bases, earning the Golden Shoe Award, All-Louisiana and All-Southland honors. Lacour was joined on the All-Southland team by sophomore Kinsey Nichols.
Lacour batted .423 as a senior under Fremin. Her .425 career batting average was a Southland Conference career record.
Fremin, a Belle Chasse, Louisiana native came to Hammond after spending the previous five seasons at Jackson State.
Fremin led JSU to three Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) East Division championships – the first three in school history. During his five years in Jackson, Fremin has led the Tigers to 137 victories, including a 67-16 record in league contests. In his first season at Jackson State, he led his team to the first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
He was named the 2014 SWAC Coach of the Year and helped JSU set 70 school records during his five years at JSU. Fremin’s squad led the nation with 163 stolen bases in 2012. During his tenure, Fremin’s teams won games over Ole Miss, Arkansas, Houston and Texas Tech among others. Fremin was also a member of the NCAA Central Regional Advisory Committee from 2012-14.
Prior to his time at Jackson State, Fremin spent five seasons at Belhaven University, accumulating a 186-95 record. His 2010 squad made the program’s first NAIA National Tournament appearance and finished the season ranked sixth in the final national poll. During his time with the Blazers, he coached eight NAIA All-Americans.
Fremin was an assistant coach at Millsaps in 2005, helping the Majors to a SCAC West Division championship. Fremin’s teams have also consistently excelled in the classroom, being recognized by the NFCA with Academic All-American team honors on eight different occasions.
Fremin started his coaching career at his alma mater Belle Chasse High School, where he was named District 11-3A Coach of the Year twice after leading BCHS to district titles in each of his two seasons at the helm. The 1995 Belle Chasse graduate was a four-year letterman in football, baseball, and golf at BCHS.
A 2007 inductee in the Belhaven Sports Hall of Fame, Fremin was a three-year team captain and quarterback for the Blazers. Fremin earned his bachelor’s degree in sport administration from Belhaven in 1999 and earned his master’s in sports science from Jackson State in 2013.
Fremin and his wife, Alana, are the parents of two daughters, Brelan and Cambre.
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