2005 Coaching Staff: Jessica Adcock, Terri Pearson-Bloom, Curtiss Brown, Marla Clayton

Terri Pearson-Bloom, Head Coach
Curtiss Brown, Assistant Coach
Jessica Adcock, Assistant Coach
 

Terri Pearson-Bloom, Head Coach

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.

Terri Pearson-Bloom enters her fifth season at Solano having compiled a 89-67 record at the Fairfield campus.

• In 2004, the Falcons finished the season with a 22-14 overall record and Pearson-Bloom watched four players move on to 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.

Among Pearson-Bloom's biggest accomplishments has been her teams' academic success.  Solano teams are some of the best in the state academically.

• In 2004, the team was ranked 16th nationally among junior colleges with a team GPA of 2.9. The team was also ranked as high as No. 3 in the state and held the highest team GPA in the BVC west division.
• In 2003, the Falcons were ranked 22nd in the nation as an NFCA All-Academic team with a combined 2.910 GPA. The team had the highest GPA in the Bay Valley Conference.

Pearson-Bloom has coached eight academic All-Americans in four years as well as several of her players being named to the Dean’s List and earning Bay Valley Conference academic awards.  Since her arrival in 2000, Pearson-Bloom has coached academic All-Americans every season.

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.

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 Sara Pickering and UNLV assistant Sara Pickering.

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.

Curtiss Brown, Assistant Coach

Curtiss Brown enters his second year with the Solano softball program after serving as the school’s baseball coach from 1991-2001. Brown is a defensive specialist and is in charge of the catchers and the infield. Brown brings 20 years of coaching baseball to the program.

He earned his Bachelor’s in Physical Education from CSU, Chico and his Master’s in Exercise Science with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology and Biomechanics from the University of Oklahoma. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Jessica Adcock, Assistant Coach

Jessica Adcock, who played at Solano from 2000-02, is in her first year on the coaching staff after completing a successful career at Lynn University in Florida.

Adcock will be in charge of the pitchers and catchers this year. Her task is no small one as she has four effective hurlers and two solid catchers to work with.

At Lynn University, Adcock was the starting catcher and two-year captain. She was a standout student as well, being named to the honor roll all four semesters on campus.

Adcock was a second-team all-Bay Valley Conference selection her freshman year at Solano. She earned the Falcon Award that year as well. As a sophomore, she was an academic All-American and team MVP. Adcock was also a member of the Dean’s List at SCC for four semesters and was on the President’s Honor Roll for two semesters.