Georgia Highlands College

Levering enters her first season as Director of Athletics at Georgia Highlands College. Levering comes to GHC from Georgia Southwestern State University where she served as the Associate Athletic Director, Senior Women’s Administrator, and Head Softball Coach at Georgia for seven years. 

Under Levering's leadership at GSW, in the 2023-2024 academic school year the Category 5 program launched to serve as a personal and professional development program that not only impacts the GSW student athletes but the local youth and high school student athletes surrounding GSW. The Category 5 program support students’ minds, bodies, and spirits with a comprehensive approach to student-athlete well-being to the collegiate and K-12 population. Levering constructed multiple seminars on topics including mental performance, behavioral health surrounding addiction, financial literacy, and the first Canes Career Night focusing on professional development and life after sport.

The athletics department has reached record highs in community service hours. The department has been reported in the Top 5 amongst all NCAA Division II schools since 2019. In 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. The GSW student athletes volunteer their time with a variety of groups including Special Olympics, the Tim Tebow Night to Shine, The Big Event home project, Operation Pack a Shoe Box amongst others. 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, along with 2 All-Region Athletes, 10 PBC-All Conference players and 7 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).