Interim Head Coach Bianca Duran

Bianca Duran

Interim HC

@biancarae02

Bianca Duran enters her fifth season on the Louisiana Tech softball staff, this year serving as the interim head coach following the resignatiion of Maria Winn in early August.

The former Lady Techster pitcher spent her first four years as an assistant coach under Mark Montgomery (2017-19) and Winn (2020) before accepting the new role in early September.

Duran, a two-year letterwinner for the Lady Techsters in 2014 and 2015, was part of the LA Tech coaching staffs that guided the Lady Techsters to the 2017 Conference USA Tournament title and a berth in the Tuscaloosa Regional and the 2019 C-USA regular season and tournament titles and a berth in the Baton Rouge Regionals.

The Colorado native worked closely with Preslee Gallaway (2018 C-USA Pitcher of the Year, 3-time all-CUSA) and Krystal De la Cruz (2017 C-USA Newcomer of the Year, 2-time all-CUSA) who anchored a LA Tech staff during the conference tournament tuns.

De La Cruz and Gallaway became the first LA Tech pitching duo in program history to earn all-conference honors in the same season in 2017 and then repeated the achievement in 2019. Gallaway was the program’s first ever recipient of the conference Pitcher of the Year award.

She also worked alongside the LA Tech outfield, which boasted 2018 C-USA Player of the Year Morgan Turkoly (4-time all-CUSA) and 2019 C-USA Player of the Year Jazlyn Crowder.

The 2019 Lady Techsters won 45 games, the second most in program history, while claiming both the regular season and tournament championships. Tech broke numerous team and individual single season offensive marks along the way. She was part of the 2019 staff that was named the NFCA Mideast Region co-Coaching Staff of the Year..

During her two years as a player in Ruston in 2014 and 2015, Duran helped elevate the Lady Techster program. As a senior she earned first team all-Mideast Region honors by the NFCA and was named to the Conference USA All-Tournament team.

Her career offensive totals in Ruston included a .295 batting average with 20 doubles, 11 home runs and 58 RBIs while she recorded a 20-32 record in the circle with a 3.25 earned run average. As a senior she was 14-13 with a 2.78 ERA and led the Lady Techsters to a 30-plus win season.

During her two years at Western Nebraska Community College, Duran set the program record for career home runs (40), single season home runs (23), single season doubles (29), single season batting average (.545), single season hits (110), career wins and single season wins (36). She earned Region 9 Freshman of the Year and All-Region 9 honors as a freshman and Region 9 Pitcher and Player of the Year honors as a sophomore.

After earning her bachelor's degree from LA Tech in May of 2015, Duran spent 2016 as an assistant coach at California State University Stanislaus State where she worked directly with the pitchers and catchers while also assisting with the hitters.