WEEKLY'S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Coaching Experience

1997-01: Chattanooga, co-head coach
2002-21: Tennessee, co-head coach
2022-Pres.: Tennessee, head coach

TENNESSEE HIGHLIGHTS

Nine trips to the Women's College World Series (2005, 06, 07, 10, 12, 13, 15, 23, 25)
Two-time WCWS Runner-Up Finish (2007, 13)
Nine-time NCAA Super Regional Champion (2005, 06, 07, 10, 12, 13, 15, 23, 25)
14-time NCAA Regional Champion (2005, 06, 07, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25)
Three-time SEC Tournament Champion (2006, 11, 23)
2024 SEC Regular-Season Champion
2023 SEC Regular-Season Champion
2007 SEC Regular-Season Champion
Three-time SEC Eastern Division Champion (2004, 07, 12)
22 consecutive SEC Tournament appearances (2003-25)
Two-time Speedline South Region Coaching Staff of the Year (2005, 07)
Four-time NFCA Southeast Region Coaching Staff of the Year (2010, 12, 13, 23)
Four-time SEC Coach of the Year (2004, 07, 23, 24)
UT Daily Beacon Lady Vol Coach of the Year (2001-02, 02-03)
107 All-SEC or SEC All-Freshman selections
86 NFCA All-Region selections
45 NFCA All-America selections
37 CSC Academic All-America selections
First SEC team to reach No. 1 in polls (2007)
First SEC team to reach WCWS Championship Series (2007)

CHATTANOOGA HIGHLIGHTS

Two NCAA Regional appearances (2000, 01)
Two-time SoCon Coach of the Year (1999, 2001)
Five-time SoCon Champions (1997-2001)
Two-time SoCon Tournament Champions (1997-98, 2000-01)

WEEKLY'S YEAR-BY-YEAR RECORD

Year	School	W-L-T	Pct.
2025	Tennessee	47-17	.734
2024	Tennessee	44-12	.786
2023	Tennessee	51-10	.836
2022	Tennessee	41-18	.695
2021	Tennessee*	42-15	.740
2020	Tennessee*	14-9^	.608
2019	Tennessee*	43-17	.716
2018	Tennessee*	48-14	.774
2017	Tennessee*	48-12	.800
2016	Tennessee*	43-16	.729
2015	Tennessee*	47-17	.734
2014	Tennessee*	46-12	.793
2013	Tennessee*	52-12	.813
2012	Tennessee*	52-14	.788
2011	Tennessee*	49-12	.803
2010	Tennessee*	49-15	.766
2009	Tennessee*	40-18-1	.686
2008	Tennessee*	50-16	.758
2007	Tennessee*	63-8	.887
2006	Tennessee*	61-12	.836
2005	Tennessee*	67-15	.817
2004	Tennessee*	55-16	.775
2003	Tennessee*	45-25	.643
2002	Tennessee*	35-25-1	.582
2001	Chattanooga*	49-18	.731
2000	Chattanooga	47-27	.635
1999	Chattanooga	48-18	.727
1998	Chattanooga*	47-15	.758
1997	Chattanooga*	32-19	.627
Totals:		1,355-454-2	.749

School	Years	Record	Pct.
Tennessee*	24	1,132-357-2	.760
Chattanooga*	5	223-97	.697
Totals:	29	1,355-454-2	.749

*Co-Head Coach with Ralph Weekly
^Season canceled on March 12 due to global COVID-19 pandemic

A 30-year collegiate softball head coaching veteran boasting 1,355 career wins, Karen Weekly enters her 25th season at the helm of the Tennessee softball program in 2026. After serving as co-head coach for 20 seasons at Tennessee, Weekly assumed all head coaching responsibilities in June of 2021. Entering the 2026 season, she ranks third among active head coaches in wins and is ninth all-time in Division I collegiate softball history.

ON ROCKY TOP
During her tenure at Tennessee, the Lady Vols have become one of the nation's premier programs. UT has reached the postseason every year since 2004, hosting 20 straight NCAA Regionals, advancing to 14 Super Regionals and has made nine trips to the Women's College World Series, placing in the top-3 on seven occasions, including two national runner-up finishes.

Tennessee has captured six SEC titles under Weekly’s direction, including winning back-to-back regular season titles for the first time in program history in 2023 and 2024. UT also brought home the 2023 SEC Tournament title – claiming the regular season and tournament crowns in the same season for the first time.

Weekly’s Tennessee players have earned 45 All-America recognitions, 107 All-SEC or SEC All-Freshman selections and 86 NFCA All-Region picks. The list of accolades also includes Monica Abbott and Madison Shipman being named Honda award winners for softball in 2007 and 2014, respectively. In addition, 20 Lady Vols have gone on to play professional softball.

Tennessee and the SEC reached new heights when Weekly arrived in Knoxville as the Lady Vols became the first SEC team to reach No. 1 in the polls, spending 11 consecutive weeks at the top during the 2007 season. That same season, UT became the first SEC program to reach the best-of-three NCAA Championship Series.

Weekly recruited and coached NCAA career strikeout leader Monica Abbott—along with numerous other Lady Vol greats—establishing the framework for an era of success and ascension that led to the construction of Sherri Parker Lee Stadium, which opened in 2008. Between 2004 and 2013, Tennessee put together seven 50-win seasons, including three straight 60-plus-win campaigns in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

The 2005 season was especially sweet, as UT won a program-best 67 games, made its first WCWS appearance and began its streak of hosting NCAA Regionals.

A 2018 NFCA Hall of Fame inductee, Weekly has recorded the most victories in Tennessee Athletics history with a 1,132-357-2 (.760) mark.

BEFORE TENNESSEE
Weekly brought a wealth of experience to Tennessee gained from being an All-American softball player at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., a national title-winning assistant coach at PLU in 1988 and 1992 and a championship head coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for five seasons. During her tenure, the Mocs claimed five straight Southern Conference regular-season trophies, four SoCon Tournament plaques and the team made successive appearances at the 2000 and 2001 NCAA Regionals.

An assistant at Pacific Lutheran from 1987-94, she helped guide the Lutes to NAIA national championships in 1988 and 1992 and a runner-up finish in 1990.

At PLU, where she was known as Karen Kvale, Weekly excelled as a student-athlete. She was named Female Athlete of the Year and led NAIA hitters with a .440 batting average during her All-America senior season. Her skills were not limited to the diamond either, as she was a three-year starter on the basketball team.

Weekly was a two-time Academic All-American, garnering honors in 1986 and 1987. In both '85 and '86, she was the recipient of the prestigious Pacific Lutheran University Undergraduate Fellow/Division of Social Sciences Award.

She graduated magna cum laude from PLU in 1987 after earning her bachelor's degree in history and political science.

She later earned her juris doctor degree from the University of Washington's School of Law in 1990. At Chattanooga, Weekly was an assistant professor in the College of Business Administration from August 1995 until May 2001, where she taught a course entitled the "Legal Environment of Business." Between 1996-99, she served on the UTC Faculty Committee on Student Rating of Faculty Instruction. In addition, Weekly was an administrative law judge and a member of the school's Gender Equity Committee from 1996 until her departure from Chattanooga. She remains an administrative law judge at the University of Tennessee.

Previously, she was an associate attorney at Grant, Konvalinka & Harrison in Chattanooga from November 1994 to August 1995 after working in a similar capacity at Williams, Kastner & Gibbs in Seattle from September 1990 through November 1994.

Weekly holds memberships in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA), where she has held several committee positions, and the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. She is a member of the American Bar Association and is permitted to practice law in the states of Tennessee and Washington.