Softball
The Clackamas Community College Women's Softball Team has built a tradition of success on and off the field. The Cougars have captured nine Northwest Athletic Conference titles, six second-place finishes and enjoyed nine Southern Region championship titles in the last 30 years. The Lady Cougars have also been to the playoffs 27 of the last 30 years and eight of the last 14 NWAC Championship games!
Accomplishments include:
- Placing second at 2014 championship tournament
- Placing third at 2015 championship tournament
- Placing fourth at 2016 championship tournament
If you're interested in playing Cougar softball, contact Coach Jessica Buel at 503-594- 3602 or jessicab@clackamas.edu
Softball Coaching Staff
Jessica Buel
Coach Buel has led the Cougars to eight consecutive post-season appearances, finishing no lower than seventh place at the NWAC Championship tournament. Her 2007 and 2014 teams finished runner-up while the 2012 team went 38-11 and won the school its ninth NWAC Softball Championship.
Buel was named the 2010 Southern Region Coach of the Year, 2012 NWAC Coach of the Year and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) NWAC Coach of the Year in 2010.
She starred for the Cougars during the 1999-2000 seasons in centerfield, helping her teams to a combined 63-16 record, a Southern Region Championship and a third- and fourth-place finish during the 1999 and 2000 NWAACC tournaments.
She was twice honored as a First Team Southern Region All-Star and earned NFCA NWAC All-American in 2000. Prior to college, she was a standout at Sprague High School in Salem where she was the Valley League Player of the Year in 1998. Her outstanding play at CCC led her to signing at Western Oregon University for the 2001-02 seasons.
At WOU, she earned all-league honors and also broke the school's single season record for stolen bases. After graduating WOU with her communications degree, Buel was the head coach at Central High School in Independence. She coached there from 2003 to 2005 and led the program to a top 10 ranking her final season. The following season she turned her skills to her alma mater at WOU, where she was appointed as outfield coach and also specialized in fine-tuning the hitting skills of the team's left-handed slappers.
She earned a master's degree in health education from WOU and currently teaches health and PE classes at CCC. Buel and her husband, Kacy, have a daughter, Brooklyn.