Interviews: Lu Harris-Champer

Lu Harris-Champe is the Head Softball Coach at the University of Georgia. She feels that the hardest thing for her to do nowadays is manage time. Now that she has a family and she is a coach, she feels that she has the best of both worlds; when she is at work, her team makes things fun, and it doesn’t seem much like work at all. She said, “I get to teach a group of great girl’s everyday and go home and do the same with my own girls.” When we asked her does she feel pressure because she is a woman, she told us that it isn’t because she is a woman; it is simply because she wants to win the game. With that said, she doesn’t feel like there is a gender bias here, but she looks at it more as an opportunity to do what she is good at and make a difference. Her one piece of advice is in order to succeed, you have to climb the ladder and pay your dues.