Kaitlyn 'Kat' Guevara was hired on August, 2024 as the Santa Clara University assistant softball coach.
Guevara is the pitching coach and helped right-handed hurler Cari Ferguson become the school's first ever West Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year and Freshman of the Year in 2025. Ferguson led the WCC with a 2.43 ERA and finished with an 8-11 overall record. She was 76th nationally in ERA and sixth best among all freshmen. In league play, Ferguson dominated going 5-1 and getting a win in each of the five WCC series while posting a 0.77 ERA.
The 2025 Broncos pitching staff posted a 3.41 team ERA, good for second best in the WCC and recorded the most shutouts in the conference with eight en route to winning the program's first WCC Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance.
Guevara joined the Broncos from Monterey Peninsula College where she served as the head coach in 2024 and prior to that was an assistant coach at West Valley College for four seasons including a stint as an interim head coach.
At West Valley, Guevara was hired as the pitching coach and eventually also took on the role of the hitting coach under medal-winning Olympian Vicky Galindo Piatt before landing the head coaching gig at MPC in 2023.
Guevara has more than a decade experience as a private pitching and hitting instructor. She also worked at the Kinetic Performance Institute, an athletic training facility in Morgan Hill, California as the Lead Skills Coach utilizing and analyzing Blast, Rapsodo and HitTrack metrics for skill development.
She coached and played in the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) having been named 2015 All-NorCal and 2016 All-State selection as a player at West Valley before transferring to Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas.
Guevara was picked in the fourth round in The American Softball Association (ASBA) draft to play ball in Mobile, Alabama during its inaugural season of the independent professional league.
After graduating from Lyon College with a bachelor of arts degree in history, Guevara embarked on a coaching career, first as an assistant travel ball coach in Arkansas and then at San Jose from 2019 to 2021. She then worked at the Kinetic Performance Institute while as an assistant coach at West Valley.
Guevara also has a master of science degree in coaching and exercise sciences from Concordia University-Irvine.
