Northwest Notes

Amicone leaves Salt Lake

for Weber State softball

OGDEN, Utah - Mary Kay Amicone has been named coach of the Weber State softball program, the school announced.

Amicone, a former Weber State softball player, joins the Wildcats after nine seasons as coach at Salt Lake Community College of the Scenic West Athletic Conference. She led the Bruins to seven conference titles in the last eight years and the team advanced to three consecutive NJCAA championship games. The Bruins were 53-11 this season.

In her nine years, she was 433-99-2 and 330-57 in conference play and was named Coach of the Year four times.

She began her coaching career as an assistant at Utah before becoming the head coach at BYU for three years, leading the Cougars to the 2001 Mountain West championship.

She is married to Marc Amicone, the general manager of the Triple-A Salt Lake Bees.