COLUMBIA — South Carolina softball coach Beverly Smith was fired Saturday after 14 seasons with the Gamecocks.

Smith is the second-winningest coach in program history, going 461-323 overall. In SEC play, however, she was 102-219. This season, South Carolina went 36-24 overall, 8-16 in the conference and lost in the Durham Regional.

She led the Gamecocks to nine postseason appearances (including seven straight), with one super regional trip in 2018.

Before her time at South Carolina, she was associate head coach at North Carolina from 2005 to 2010 and was an assistant coach from 1998-2002 and again in 2004. She was head coach at Episcopal High School in Bellaire, Texas from 1996 to 1998. Smith had a brief coaching stint in the professional league in 1997 as assistant coach Tampa Bay FireStix.

South Carolina also is looking for a baseball coach after Mark Kingston was fired following seven seasons.

Lulu Kesin covers South Carolina athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email her at lkesin@gannett.com and follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, @Lulukesin

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