Head Coach

Steve Swazo

Coach Steve Swazo enters his third season as head coach of the Lady Trojan softball team. Last year, the team finished with a school record 30 wins in a single season and for the 2008-09 season will return 12 sophomores along with 9 talented incoming freshmen.
Prior to Trinidad State Junior College, Swazo, a native of Trinidad, was an assistant baseball coach for Trinidad High School as well as the freshmen boys’ basketball coach and worked with special needs students.
From 1985 through 2005, Swazo coached in Nebraska and has more than 20 years of coaching high school baseball teams. He also assisted in coaching clinics with the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Oklahoma State University, and Northeastern Oklahoma A& M College and was the women’s JV basketball coach for one year at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Swazo holds a Physical Education Degree and minor in Special Education from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and also a degree in radio broadcasting. He plans to pursue his Masters in Sports Psychology.
During this past summer, Swazo assisted with many softball camps in Colorado sponsored by Triple Crown.
To learn more about the Trinidad State Junior College Softball program, you can reach Coach Swazo at 719-846-5499 or e-mail him at stephen.swazo@trinidadstate.edu .

Assistant Coach

Marty Serna

Marty Serna, a native of Trinidad, is in his fifth year as an assistant coach with the Trinidad State Junior College Softball team. A graduate of Trinidad High School, Serna played football, basketball and baseball for the Miners, making All-Conference in football and baseball and All-State in baseball. He has more than 16 years of coaching experience along with coaching his son's summer little league time. He also has been officiating high school football for the past six years. While attending college at Trinidad State Junior College, he was on the TSJC baseball team for two years. He is currently employed at Trinidad State Nursing Home where he has been a Restorative Nurse for the past 17 years. He has a son, Joshua who is 11 years old, and married Karla Ulibarri this past summer.