Falcon softball Coach Faye Perkins has won her 400^th career game at UW-River Falls with the team's 9-0 six-inning win over Bethel on Thursday afternoon.

Perkins, in her 19^th year as head coach of the Falcons, has a 400-336-2 career record at UWRF.  Perkins is the second winningest softball coach in the history of the WIAC.

Perkins returned as the team's head coach this year after serving UWRF as the interim dean of the College of Education and Professional Studies.

On March 28, 2004, Perkins posted her 300th win at UWRF when the Falcons beat UM-Morris, 9-1. She coached two seasons in Missouri at Tarkio College in 1984 and 1985 where the team repeated as Heart of America conference champions. Perkins' career record is 443-355-2. Before coaching at Tarkio College, Perkins was the head coach at Collins-Maxwell High School in central Iowa for five seasons where she led her team to the Heart of Iowa Conference championship.

Under Perkins' leadership, the Falcons won back-to-back WIAC championships in 1993 and 1994. The team also qualified for the NCAA Div. III playoffs in both those seasons. Perkins led the team to seven WIAC West Division championships (2001, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1989). The Falcons had six straight seasons of 20 or more wins (1991-96). Perkins has coached 62 All-American Scholar-Athletes and her 1993-94 team had the second highest overall grade point average in all of Div. III softball. Four of her athletes have won the WIAC Scholar-Athlete award-- Kim Zarling, Amy Stenson, Amy Brooke, and Anna Poulter. Perkins has coached 12 Regional All-Americans and 59 of her student-athletes have been named to All-WIAC teams.

She earned her B. S. in physical education and M. S. in exercise physiology from Iowa State University. As a Cyclone she earned nine athletic letters as a member of the softball, basketball and track & field teams. In 1975 she earned All-American honors in track. The softball team won the Big 8 Conference championship in 1976 and 1978 and Perkins was selected to the all-Tournament team as a shortstop. In 2004, Perkins was inducted into the Iowa State University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Perkins earned her Ph.D. in health education from the University of Utah in 1992. At UWRF she is a full professor and was the health & human performance department chair from 2002-07.