Shannon Pivovar was named an assistant softball coach in the summer of 2023 following five seasons as the head coach at University of Sioux Falls. Pivovar won at least 23 games in four full seasons at Sioux Falls and 109 games overall. Her team’s 2020 season was shortened due to the pandemic. The Cougars had nine all-NSIC honors in those four seasons including six first-team honorees. The program also combined for more than 200 hours of community service work each season.
Pivovar was an assistant coach at South Dakota State for four seasons from 2015-18 and led the program to its first NCAA Division I postseason appearance when the Jacks competed in the National Invitational Softball Championship in 2018. Pivovar served as a graduate assistant coach at Wayne State in 2014.
Pivovar hails from Omaha, Nebraska, and shined collegiately at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Missouri. She was a three-time all-conference honoree, an all-region performer in 2008, and was named 2010 Missouri Western Female Student-Athlete of the Year.
Pivovar graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in sports management. She is nearing completion of a master’s degree from Wayne State. Pivovar has served as a sports information director at Creighton, coached at Ralston and Marion High Schools in Omaha, and was a program coach for Nebraska Fury Fast Pitch Softball.
