Laura "Flip" Fillipp comes to NKU following a 13-year head coaching stint at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, where she amassed nearly 300 victories. UW Parkside reached the championship game of the Great Lakes Valley Conference on four different occasions and won at least 25 games six times during her tenure at the helm of the program.
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Prior to leading UW Parkside's program, Fillipp spent four years as the athletic director, head softball coach and chairperson of the Physical Education Department at the Immaculate Heart of Mary High School in Westchester, Ill.
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From 1993-96, Fillipp served as the assistant softball and interim head coach at Penn State. She was responsible for coordinating the recruiting efforts, pitchers and catchers, hitting, outfield, travel and monitoring academic progress for the Nittany Lions. Fillipp was also an instructor in the department of kinesiology at Penn State.
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Fillipp was a standout on the diamond during her playing days for Southern Illinois and at the 1985 Women's World Tournament in Concord, Cal., where she led to tourney in home runs. She graduated from Southern Illinois in 1981 with a degree in Physical Education.
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The United States Specialty Sports Association (U.S.S.S.A) has inducted Fillipp into both the National and Illinois Halls of Fame. She is also a member of the College of Lake County Athletic Hall of Fame and was a U.S.S.S.A Soviet Tour Ambassador in 1990.
