Mollie Paulick was hired as an assistant coach for the pitching staff in July 2023.
Paulick returned to EKU from Bellarmine, where she served two seasons as an assistant coach and interim head coach. At Bellarmine, she assisted with all phases of coaching the softball team along with taking on primary pitching coach responsibilities.
Before Paulick's coaching career, she was one of the best pitchers in EKU history from 2016-2021, where she owned a 72-28 record in the circle with a 2.35 earned run average and 655 strikeouts.
In 2021, Paulick capped her five-year career in Richmond leading the Colonels to their third conference championship in program history. EKU advanced to the NCAA Softball Knoxville Regional for the first time since 2004, where she tossed 4.2 innings with 2 strikeouts against No. 9 Tennessee.
In her last two seasons, the Centerville, Ohio native went 23-2 with a 1.75 ERA and 179 strikeouts in 163 innings pitched with two wins in the OVC Tournament against Austin Peay and SEMO.
In her sophomore season, Paulick finished the year with a 23-7 record and a career-high 182 strikeouts. Her 23 wins were just two shy of tying the EKU program record held by Jonelle Csora in 2002.
She was the recipient of EKU's Female Athlete of the Year in 2020 and earned multiple Ohio Valley Conference honors, including being named First Team All-OVC as a pitcher in 2018.
