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    New face arises on the softball field

    For the Lady Lions softball team, this past season finished with the team’s Head Coach Pete Langlois announcing his acceptance of his new position as Assistant to the Athletic Director for Facilities and Operations, which left the position of head coach open for the team. Nearing the end of the summer, the Director of Athletics, Jay Artigues, announced Rick Fremin as the team’s new head coach. 

    Fremin, a Belle Chasse, Louisiana native and father of two daughters, Brelan and Cambre, graduated high school from Belle Chasse High School, where he began his coaching career. Following that, he earned his bachelor’s in sport administration from Belhaven University, then his master’s in sports science from Jackson State University. 

    Before coming to Southeastern, Fremin served as head coach at Jackson State University for the past five seasons, where he led their team to earn three Southwestern Athletic Conference East Division championships and 137 victories. Prior to Jackson State University, he was at Belhaven University. He led their team to their first National Tournament appearance. In that same season, his team finished sixth in the final national poll. 

    Being originally from Louisiana, Fremin feels greatly supported by the Lion community and has hopes for the team and for his family as well. 

    “This is home for me, with me coming back to Louisiana, so I consider it home,” said Fremin. “The support has been great. The community, the administration, I have not had support like that at the previous institutions. [Southeastern] has been great. I’m coming here to raise my family and with hopes that it’s my last job, for the long term, and to build a nationally ranked program.” 

    Filling the shoes of former coach Langlois and taking on a new team, Fremin is ready to lead the Lady Lions.

    “I’m excited about it,” said Fremin. “We have to figure out within the first two weeks what our identity is. Once I figure out from an evaluation process where we’re at, we’ll go from there. We do have a blueprint of what our expectations are.”

    Fremin has expectations and goals for his team this year that will extend past the field into all areas of his players’ lives. 

    “The standards will be very high, both in the community, the classrooms, weight room and on the playing field,” said Fremin. “It may be held to a higher standard than other athletes here, but in order for us to get going in the direction that we want to go in, these things have to happen.”

    In order to achieve success on the field, Fremin believes there must be success in all areas of his athletes’ lives. One of the first areas of focus will be the athletes’ living arrangements, how their upkeep, hygiene and decision making standards can affect them. By accomplishing these feats, it allows the players to see themselves as unique individuals who are striving for greatness, according to Fremin.

    After success is achieved in the daily lives of his athletes, Fremin, then, plans to strive for improvement in the classroom.

    Once these goals outside the field are met, Fremin will start setting goals that are more geared towards enhancing athletic performance for the new season.

    “We’ll set the standards for the weight room,” said Fremin. “We’ll encourage them to try and win in the weight room, to not only go in there to lift, but to lift to be all conference, all regional or all American. After that, we’ll move on to the practice field; then, we’ll set goals for the practice field. We’ll try and set goals for our game. Through all of that, all of the championships will come as a result of a process. So, we’re focused on the process at this point, not ‘we’re going to win so many games or break so many records;’ that stuff comes from what we’re asking them to do. My goal always is to put them in a situation to be successful.”

    For young athletes and students in general, he offers his advice and words, encouraging them. 

    “I would tell them that they’re unique and encourage them to be themselves and embrace [their] uniqueness because that’s what makes them special, to not settle and to wake up every day having the desire to be great,” said Fremin. 

    Visit lionsports.net for more information on Head Coach Fremin and the Lady Lions softball team.

    Rick Fremin

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