Kim Sotomayor has completed her third season on the UTD staff and second as head coach. She joined the UTD Athletics staff just before the 2004-05 school year as the university's first fulltime softball assistant coach, and took over as head coach just a season later when program founder Tricia Hoffman retired.

Sotomayor, a native of Tucson, Arizona, spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach at New Mexico Highlands University, a Division II school in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The NMHU teams advanced to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament in 2003 and 2004. She also coached for a year at her alma mater, William Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa; and two years in the Tucson school district.

Sotomayor was an NFCA Division III All-West Region catcher at William Penn, where she earned a BA in sociology in 1998. In high school, her team at Amphitheater HS in Tucson finished third place in the 1992 state tournament.

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