Texas Tech softball’s Gerry Glasco says coaching this roster is a dream come true

After one of the biggest wins for Gerry Glasco as the head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders, Glasco wasn’t focused in on talking about scheme or strategy. Just about everything he said centered around gratitude for his team, his fanbase, and this moment in time that he gets to be in. To have the opportunity to be in this situation with a team like this, that’s something to celebrate.

And that’s something that Glasco wants to make clear to the world. He’s grateful for this opportunity to lead the Red Raiders. He’s glad to be leading things out in Lubbock with the opportunity to help guide the players on his team.

“It’s a dream come true for me to get to coach players like Mia Williams, NiJa Canady, Kaitlyn Terry, Taylor Pannell,” Glasco said during his postgame press conference after beating the Florida Gators in Game 3 of the 2026 Gainesville Super Regional.

‘Every day is a dream for me’: Texas Tech head coach Gerry Glasco shares his gratitude to be coaching the Red Raiders

And that’s understandable. That is a collection of phenomenal players who have all shown the ability to completely and totally take over a game at any given moment. From the outside looking in, it also looks like they’ve become quite the team.

To be able to coach that group is something special. Especially for someone whose career has taken all sorts of interesting twists and turns over the years.

“It’s a dream come true for an old softball coach,” Glasco continued. “I’m a guy that started out in travel ball, junior high ball. At 49-years-old I was coaching junior high ball.”

Glasco has been all over the place. After getting that experience coaching, he got the opportunity to jump into the college ranks as an assistant with the Georgia Bulldogs and then later with the Texas A&M Aggies. Glasco got his first college head coaching gig with the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns, where he elevated them into a consistent winner. Now at Texas Tech, Glasco is heading to the Women’s College World Series for the second time as a head coach.

This whole situation must be a little surreal for him.

“To be able to coach at an unbelievable facility like Florida against a Hall of Fame coach like Tim Walton, every day is a dream for me,” Glasco said.

That sort of gratitude and humility is incredible and great to see. Especially since Texas Tech has a roster that appears capable of competing for a national championship this season.

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