Northridge, Golden West coaches named to national softball panel

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Cal State Northridge’s Barbara Jordan and Suzy Brazney of Huntington Beach’s Golden West College are among 14 softball coaches named to Team USA’s women’s national team coaching pool. Coaches selected for the 2009-12 quadrennium are responsible for the training and preparation of the women’s national team.

The team’s head coach, who will replace Arizona’s Mike Candrea, will be named later.

Jordan, who won a national championship and earned All-American honors during a record-setting playing career at CSUN, has guided the school to three NCAA tournaments during her eight years as a coach there. An eight-time national team member and an alternate on the Olympic-champion team in Atlanta in 1996, Jordan has served as an assistant coach with the national junior team.

Brazney, a two-time candidate for the U.S. Olympic team and two-time All-American at Cal Poly Pomona, was a member of the selection committee that picked the 2004 gold medal-winning team and was part of Team USA’s coaching pool for the last Olympics, in which the U.S. finished second.

Softball is not on the schedule for the 2012 Olympics in London but there is a growing movement to have the sport returned to the Games by 2016. The International Olympic Committee is expected to vote on reinstatement later this year.

-- Kevin Baxter