Karlie Charles

Hi I’m Karlie, a Texas native out of The Colony High School. I finished my collegiate softball career in the spring season of 2024 having pitched 5 years in the Big 12 Conference at Iowa State University. In my time at Iowa State, I faced a lot of adversity and those hardships helped me develop into a stronger athlete than I was before. I was given a space to engage with my hitters and coaches about strategy and technique, which gave me a foundation for my coaching career. I look forward to helping young pitchers enhance their mechanics, mobility, speed and mentality. A mindset that I practice and incorporate in my coaching philosophy is that, failure is learning, failure is trying, and failure means you’re halfway to success. Never say you won’t, or you never will.

Playing years:
2015-2019 - The Colony High School
2019-2024 - Iowa State University

Current:
Graduate Assistant at University of Oregon SB