Levering enters her seventh season as Senior Women's Administrator, Associate Athletic Director, and Head Softball Coach at Georgia Southwestern State University in 2023-24. Levering comes to GSW from South Georgia State College where she served as a health and human performance instructor along with head softball coach for four seasons.

 

Under Levering's leadership, the athletics department has reached record highs in community service hours. In a recent 2021-2022 NCAA Division II report developed by Helper Helper, GSW ranks No. 1 in the nation in volunteer hours recorded and has a total of seven teams ranked in the top-10 for service hours recorded this past school year.

 

Along with her community service efforts, Levering has broken records with her team in the classroom and on the softball field. The overall team GPA increased by 15% after her first season as head coach, reaching a team record high of 3.4 GPA.

 

On the field, Levering has produced a DII Honda Female Athlete of the Year Finalist, a  2x PBC Player of the Year in Zoe Willis, along with 2 All-Region Athletes, 9 PBC-All Conference players and 5 PBC All-Tournament team players. The GSW softball team made program history in the 2023 season finishing in their highest ranking in program history during PBC play, the 3rd seed. The 2023 team became the first team to reach 39 wins in program history and 19 wins in PBC conference play, highest slugging %, highest on-base %, most doubles, most triples, most runs scored, most RBI, most total bases, most stolen bases, most walks, most sac bunts, tied most shutouts, most wins, fewest passed balls, highest conference regular-season finish. In their run at the 2019 Peach Belt Conference tournament. The Lady Hurricanes upset the second-seeded Columbus State to advance to the Semifinals for the first time in program history. The team also set program records for most runs in a postseason game (7), first multi-home run game in the postseason (6) and first save in the postseason. The Lady Hurricanes continued their winning streak against third-seeded Young Harris to advance to the finals. In their first PBC championship appearance, GSW finished runner-up in the Tournament, falling to North Georgia 3-1.

 

At South Georgia State, she posted two 30-plus wins in 2015 and 2016, finishing 31-20. In 2015, the Hawks captured the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) regular season championship with a record of 12-2 in league play and 32-9 overall, earning Levering GCAA Coach of the Year honors. Altogether, Levering produced 14 GCAA All-Region players and two All-American nominees during her time at South Georgia State.

 

Prior to South Georgia State, Levering was the assistant coach at Galveston College in Galveston, Texas, where the team was 2013 NJCAA Region 14 regular season champions and finished the season ranked No. 7 in the country.

 

Levering, a native of Nashville, Tenn., had a successful career as a collegiate athlete as well. She played catcher and third base at both Seminole Community College (Sanford, Fla.) and Trevecca Nazarene University (Nashville, Tenn.). She was a National Fastpitch Coaches Association Academic All-American in 2005 at SCC and a 2008 team captain at Trevecca Nazarene, where she earned a bachelor's degree in exercise science. Levering was on a Trevecca Nazarene squad that won NAIA Regional IX and Tran South Conference championships in 2007 and 2008.

 

Currently, Levering holds a master's degree in health and human performance from the University of North Alabama and is in pursuit of her doctorate degree in adult and career education at Valdosta State University. She is a member of Women Leaders in College Sports, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, N4A, and the National Fastpitch Organization (NFCA). She lives in Americus with her wife Karlie and their twin daughters, Alex and Cameron.