Stephanie VanBrakle Prothro

Biography

Stephanie VanBrakle Prothro enters her second season on the Florida coaching staff in 2026 with the primary duty of developing UF's pitching staff. In 2025, the Gators made their 13th Women's College World Series appearance as the the No. 3 National Seed. Florida's pitching staff combined for 10 shutouts, which ranked in the top-10 nationally. Prothro came to the Gainesville after a two-year stint as the head coach of the Memphis softball program and spent the prior 12 years at Alabama as the pitching coach. In Tuscaloosa, Prothro assisted the Crimson Tide in winning the 2012 NCAA Championship in addition to three Southeastern Conference Regular Season Championships and two SEC Tournament Championships. During her time as the pitching coach at Alabama, Prothro oversaw the development of National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Americans Montana Fouts, Alexis Osorio, Sydney Littlejohn and Jaclyn Traina. The talented group garnered a total of nine All-American awards, in addition to numerous other accomplishments, under Prothro during their careers. The list of lengthy accolades that pitchers acquired under the tutelage of Prothro also includes four SEC Pitcher of the Year winners, a pair of SEC Freshman of the Year awards, 11 All-SEC selections, two All-SEC Freshman Team members and an NFCA National Pitcher of the Year that Fouts took home in 2021. Fouts won softball's 2023 Honda Award. Prothro's pitching staffs also set records at Alabama as the 2017 staff of Osorio,