UA softball assistant coach Larry Ray high-fives with Shelby Pendley as she rounds third on her way to home plate after she hit a 2 run homer March 28, 2012.

 Benjie Sanders / Arizona Daily Star

Good news for former 21-year UA softball assistant coachΒ Larry Ray: He is back in coaching full time. Ray leftΒ Mike Candrea’s staff after a publicized domestic issue in 2012, spent 2013 as a volunteer coach at Nicholls State and has now been hired as the top assistant coach at Southern Utah University. Ray was also the head coach at Florida for four seasons.

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