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Head Softball Coach Chris Helixon

Chris Helixon completed his second season as UW-La Crosse head softball coach in 2007. He led the Eagles to a 12-26 overall and 4-12 record in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) in 2007. UW-L finished 19-21 overall and 7-9 in the WIAC in Helixon's first season in 2006. The Eagles have had five players named to the All-WIAC First Team in Helixon's first two years.

Helixon served as head softball coach at Viterbo University (Wis.) from 1998-2002 and was named the 2001 Midwest Classic Conference Coach of the Year. He compiled a 52-84-1 record at Viterbo.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in leadership psychology from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1990. Helixon was a three-year starter in the outfield for the Black Knights, and was awarded All-Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League Second-Team honors.

He earned his master’s degree in sports administration from UW-La Crosse in 1995 after a two-year graduate assistantship with the Eagles’ Athletic Department.
Helixon served as the assistant to the interim athletics director at UW-La Crosse in 1998.

Helixon worked as an operations intern with the St. Paul Slam Professional Basketball Team in 1996-97 and as an operations/facilities intern with the University of Kentucky Athletics Association in 1995-96.

Helixon has played on numerous fastpitch softball teams - most notably the Menomonie Blues and Colorado Springs Blues.

Helixon, his wife Tracy, and sons Isaac (5) and Michael (2) reside in Onalaska.