From VCSU Newsletter

Valley City State University is pleased to welcome two new head coaches in women’s athletics.

Elle Fracker has been promoted to head softball coach, and Cathy Hanek has been hired as the new head women’s basketball coach.

Fracker spent the last two seasons as the assistant softball coach to Chad Slyter, who resigned in July. As an assistant, she worked primarily as the hitting coach while also working with outfield defense and the catchers.

Fracker is a 2008 graduate of Indiana State University, where she lettered four years in softball as a catcher. Prior to joining the VCSU staff in February 2012, she worked assistant coach jobs at Drexel University and Oberlin College.

Hanek comes to VCSU from Miles Community College in Miles City, Mont. She officially takes over the Viking women’s basketball program on Aug. 19. She replaces Jill DeVries, who resigned earlier this summer.

Hanek spent one year as head women’s coach and assistant men’s coach at Miles Community College. Prior to that she worked from 2007 to 2011 as the assistant women’s basketball coach for Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wis. Hanek is a native of Youngstown, Ohio, and played college basketball for Youngstown State from 2000 to 2005.