Terri Pearson-Bloom, Head Coach
Linus Schlumpberger, Assistant Coach
Cheryl Mitchell, Assistant Coach
Nicole Hervey, Assistant Coach
Lisa Abbott, Assistant Coach

Terri Pearson-Bloom, Head Coach

Terri Pearson-Bloom enters her eighth season at Solano having compiled a 182-112-1 record at the Fairfield campus.

Pearson-Bloom brings a wealth of knowledge about the game of softball and has turned the Solano program into one of the most respected in Northern California. Pearson-Bloom led the Falcons to back-to-back Bay Valley Conference championships in 2006 and 2007. Solano went 33-18 overall and 20-4 in conference games. In 2006, the team finished with a 23-1 mark in conference games and a 31-14 record overall. The coach was named BVC Coach of the Year in 2006 and several of her players earned postseason honors. Pearson-Bloom also had two players sign during the early signing period that year and one at the end of the season.

Pearson-Bloom continues to make academics a priority and was pleased to announce in 2007 that the team was ranked in the nation for the sixth straight year for their overall team GPA. Solano sets the standard in the Bay Valley Conference with one of the best academic and athletic programs around. Last year alone, four Falcons were named NFCA Academic All-Americans, the most in one season since Pearson-Bloom has been at Solano. Since her arrival at Solano, Pearson-Bloom has coached 12 Academic All-Americans.

The Falcons have had a ton of success on the field as well under Pearson-Bloom’s tutelage. In 2005, Solano finished 29-13-1 overall, earning a Northern California playoff berth. Unfortunately, the Falcons finished second in the Bay Valley Conference and lost in the double-elimination portion of the event, but gained plenty of experience. Four players moved on to four-year universities.

In 2004, the Falcons finished the season with a 22-14 overall record and Pearson-Bloom watched four players continue their academic and athletic careers at four-year schools.

In 2003, Pearson-Bloom’s Falcons posted a 25-19 record, 7-11 in conference, and took fourth place in the Bay Valley Conference’s Gold Division.

In 2002, the Falcons finished 18-19, 13-9 in conference and 8-7 overall, good enough for a third place finish in the Gold Division.

In her first season at Solano, she led the Falcons to a 24-15 overall record, claiming first place in the Silver Division with a 7-3 record. The team finished with a 13-4 conference record and made a regional appearance. Before coming to Solano, Pearson-Bloom served as the head coach for one year with the Virginia Roadsters of the Women’s Professional Softball League during the 1999-2000 season where her team finished second place in the regular season. Pearson-Bloom was selected to coach in the All-Star Game.

Pearson-Bloom’s coaching career began at St. Mary’s College in Moraga where she served as an assistant from 1995-96. She moved on to the University of Tennessee and was an assistant for the Lady Vols for three seasons (1997-99). She was a standout player at Cal State Northridge where she led the team to four regional appearances and three World Series appearances while batting leadoff and playing in the outfield. In her final season at Northridge, the team advanced to the national championship game where it eventually lost to Arizona.

Pearson-Bloom’s list of former players include Nebraska coach Jennifer Kline, Northridge coach Barbara Jordan, Stanford assistant Trisha Dean and UNLV assistant Sara Pickering. While at Solano, Pearson-Bloom hopes to help her players achieve their potential on the field and in the classroom. The Solano staff emphasizes fundamentals and teaches the mechanics, skills and strategies to help them succeed both as a player and a coach.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in Speech Communication from Northridge and her masters in Physical Education from Western Illinois. While at Tennessee, she began working on another masters in Sports Psychology.

Pearson-Bloom and her husband, Andy, live in Vacaville with their three children, Samantha, 5, Cailin, 4 and Nathan, who will be 1 in July.

Linus Schlumpberger, Assistant Coach

Linus Schlumpberger enters his third season with Solano. He has coached more than 12 years of ASA softball, serving as an assistant coach at the 18U level for three years and going to two national tournaments.

Two seasons ago, he was the outfield coach and shared pitch-calling duties with Bob Maglione at Sacramento City College. Schlumpberger was a volunteer assistant coach at Sacramento City College during the fall program for three years. He assisted with the infield coaching duties as well as serving as the first base coach. This last fall, he was the bullpen coach, ensuring that all pitchers were game-ready.

Prior to the collegiate coaching, Schlumpberger served as a head coach at the 16U level with ASA for seven years. Schlumpberger works as a Fleet Maintenence Director for UPS-Supply Chain Solutions. He is married 38 years with four daughters, all of whom have played softball. Schlumpberger calls himself "a love of the game type of guy."

Cheryl Mitchell, Assistant Coach

Cheryl Mitchell is in her first year with the Solano softball program. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the already successful program.

Cheryl has experience coaching all levels of softball – from high school varsity programs to training Olympic Athletes. Her role with Solano will be to train current athletes and recruit future student-athletes.

She currently gives private lessons and clinics on fastpitch. Cheryl graduated from Vacaville High in 1988 and earned a full athletic scholarship to play at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She also played at Sacramento State. She returned to Northern California and was named coach at Hogan High in Vallejo where she was named the Vallejo Times-Herald All-Region Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1994. She was a high school varsity coach for six years.

Cheryl decided to try her hand at coaching in college and became the assistant coach at Cal State East Bay before being named the pitching coach at Cal State Northridge. When that wasn’t enough, Cheryl began to train softball players for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and she coached internationally during that time as well to prepare teams for the Olympic Games.

As a three-time ASA Women’s National Champion and an ASA Women’s All-American, Cheryl has extensive international and collegiate experience. She also played for the United States in China and for the South Australian Sports Institute.

Nicole Hervey, Assistant Coach

Nicole Hervey joins the Solano coaching staff after completing her academic and athletic career at Mid-Continent University in Mayfield, Kansas.

Hervey, who played at Solano from 2004-05, was named the Kentucky-Iowa Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year as a junior. As a senior, she was named a TranSouth Scholar Athlete, an NCCAA Academic All-American and a member of the NCCAA Mid-East All-Regional Team.

She earned her bachelor’s of arts in psychology and counseling. Prior to coming to Solano, Nicole played four years of softball at Armijo High in Fairfield.

Lisa Abbott, Assistant Coach

Lisa Abbott joins the Solano coaching staff and returns to Solano County after spending two years as an assistant coach at Dakota Wesleyan University, an NAIA school.

Lisa, a 2000 graduate of Fairfield High, played college softball at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where she hit leadoff and played in the outfield. She earned her bachelor’s of arts in liberal studies. She played one season of professional softball with the National Professional Fastpitch’s Nebraska Comets.

Lisa began work on her master’s degree in education while at DWU. She also spends her extra time coaching with the California Tornadoes, a local fastpitch softball organization.

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