Lynchburg Softball Camps
Coaching Staff
Mike Jennings | Assistant Coach
Amherst native Mike Jennings joined the Hornet staff in the spring of 2010 and has helped Lynchburg to four NCAA tournament appearances in that time. In 2019, Jennings and the rest of the Lynchburg softball staff earned Atlantic Region coaching staff of the year honors from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.
A staple as the program's first base coach, Jennings brings a wealth of experience to the bench. He served as the assistant coach at Sweet Briar College for nine seasons after helping establish the Vixen program. Jennings also was involved helping coach a local traveling softball squad, the Scrappers, for the past decade-plus.
Jennings is a 1976 graduate of Amherst County High School, and assisted the Lancer baseball team from 1998 until the 2003 season. He is also employed at Greif Corporation, Riverville Mill in Gladstone, where he has been an industrial maintenance mechanic for three decades.
Ally Repko | Assistant Coach
Ally Repko joined the Lynchburg softball coaching staff in July of 2023 as an assistant coach.
Repko, a Broadway, Va. native, spent the 2023 season with the University of Virginia-Wise Cavaliers softball team as a part-time assistant coach working with the defense.
Prior to her coaching career, Repko was a four-year player at Elon from 2018-2021 serving as catcher, designated hitter, and third base. At the Division I level, Repko was on the 2018 Colonial Athletic Association all-rookie team, the CAA all-tournament team in 2019 and 2021, and earned first-team honors from the conference during her senior season. In 167 games with the Phoenix, Repko hit 27 homers and walked 100 times.
After graduating from Elon in 2021 with a degree in marketing and a sport and event management minor, Repko moved on to Virginia Tech where she served as a DH for the 2022 season. Repko and the Hokies made it to Game 3 of the super regionals hosted in Blacksburg, Va.
Repko is pursuing her Master's degree in Information Technology from VT with an anticipated graduation in December 2023.
In 2020, Repko traveled to Japan and played with Elon against academies from across the country. She also won her high school's first state title in girl's basketball and enjoys hiking.
Michelle Lehan | Assistant Coach
Michelle Lehan joined the Lynchburg softball coaching staff in the summer of 2021 after wrapping up a successful four-year playing career with the Hornets.
Lehan played part of some of the most effective pitching staffs in the program's history, helping Lynchburg to NCAA tournament appearances in 2018 and 2019, including the 2019 Virginia Beach Regional title, and an Old Dominion Athletic Conference runner-up finish in 2021. She amassed a career record of 6-5 in the circle with 67 strikeouts. The Virginia Beach native earned an ODAC pitcher of the week award in March of 2021.
She graduated from Lynchburg in 2021 with a degree in criminology and is currently pursuing a master's in clinical mental health counseling at the University.