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Softball: Coaching Staff
Dustin Combs is starting his second year at William Jewell College after seven seasons as the Head Coach of the Glendale softball program in Springfield, Mo. Combs, the only head coach Glendale softball has known, was hired in 2000 to lead the program in its first season of state-recognized competition. Under Coach Combs the program has compiled 108 wins, making him the all-time leader in wins for a softball coach in Springfield Public Schools history. Over the past six seasons the program has won Class 4 District Championships in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005. Glendale was runner-up in 2006 and made back-to-back State Quarterfinal appearances in 2001 and 2002. In three different seasons his teams have earned Academic All-Conference and Missouri State High School Athletic Association Outstanding Scholastic Achievement.
Combs served as the Glendale Assistant Baseball Coach and Head Junior Varsity Baseball Coach for seven years. In the summer of 2003, he was named the Glendale American Legion Head Varsity Baseball Coach. He spent three summers leading the program. In the summer of 2006, Combs assisted with the development of the Missouri Baseball Club, an 18-and-under select baseball program based out of Republic, Mo. Combs also spent six years at Glendale as the Assistant Girls Basketball Coach.
In 2004, Combs received recognition from the National High School Baseball Coaches Association as District #5 “Grounds Keeper of the Year,” and was a finalist for National Grounds Keeper of the Year through his work on the Glendale High School baseball field.
Combs is a native of Commerce, Okla., and a 1993 graduate of Commerce High School. He attended Northeastern A&M College in Miami, Okla., for two years while playing baseball for the Golden Norsemen. Combs graduated from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla., in 1998 with a bachelor’s of science degree in physical education and business education. He recently received his master’s degree in secondary administration from William Woods University, in Fulton, Mo.
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