tball team opened their season, Nicole Hartfield got out of bed, only to discover she had assumed the program's head coaching position. The team's original coach, Dianna Albini, had just been appointed a judge in San Francisco. Having signed on as assistant coach for the Mariners' first season since the 1990s, Hartfield was not familiar with the junior college level and unsure of what to expect from COM's first softball team in over a decade.
For College of Marin professor Walter Turner the destruction in Haiti is personal. He knows people who have been affected. He has worked with them. He has great respect for them. While some are numbed by the horrors of yet another barrage of devastation during an era that has seen so much worldwide destruction, Turner places great importance on maintaining a long-term focus on Haiti and the relief efforts there.