Ron Faubion first joined the Southeastern Oklahoma State softball program in 1997 as the third coach in the program’s history.
 
He served as the SE coach from 1997-2000, and after three years away, returned to the program in 2004.
 
In his two stints at SE, he has become the winningest all-time softball coach in SE history, amassing a 826-410 record, and an 948-450 record in his 25 year career in collegiate coaching.
 
Faubion guided the Lady Savages from 1997-2000 and compiled a 184-62 record in his first four years as a collegiate coach.
 
Since returning in 2004, Faubion’s teams have tallied a 642-388 record.
 
His 2014 squad marked his longest postseason run as a collegiate head coach as he guided the Storm to a NCAA National Finals appearance and a third-place overall finish.  That finish would earn the team, which posted a 45-20 record on the year, a No. 4 national ranking to end the year, also the program’s best final ranking.  This run earned Faubion and his staff the NFCA Central Region Coaching Staff of the Year honor as well as his second-straight Great American Conference Coach of the Year award.
 
The team won a regular season conference championship for the second-straight season and featured an All-American in Jessica Simmons, five All-Central Region honorees (Simmons, Mindy McElroy, Haley Strawn, Laramie Beal and Sydney Kramer), as well as a sweep of the GAC individual honors.  Simmons was named Player of the Year and McElroy Pitcher of the Year as a total of six players earned all-conference honors.
 
In 2013 his team picked up the school’s first GAC Championship, sweeping the regular season and tournament titles, en route to winning the league’s Coach of the Year honor.  That team won six-straight games against teams that were or would become nationally ranked, including three top-10 teams, to win the NFCA Division II Leadoff Classic and climbed all the way to a No. 2 national ranking.
 
He has guided Southeastern to 10 Lone Star Conference Tournaments, winning on three occasions, and to seven opf the eight Great American Conference Tournament, winning one of them.  His teams have collected six Lone Star Conference North Division Championships, and he has taken SE teams to two NAIA regionals, six NCAA regionals, two NCAA Super-Regionals and a trip to the 2014 NCAA National Finals.
 
In his collegiate coaching career, he has guided teams to some sort of post-season play in 21 seasons, including nine NAIA or NCAA regional berths.
 
Faubion has coached 98 all-conference performers at SE, including seven conference Pitchers of the Year (2 GAC, 5 LSC-N), two Lone Star Conference North Division Players of the Year, one GAC Player of the Year, three conference Newcomers of the Year (2 GAC, 1 LSC-N), and one conference Freshman of the Year (GAC).
 
He has also had 39 players garner all-region recognition with 10 of those, Lori Alexander, Jill Davis, Adrienne Stoops, Rachel Lynn, Marjorie Johnson, Ashley Graham, Bailey Mathes, Erika Bernal, Jeana Keyes and Simmons going on to earn All-American honors.
 
Academics has always been a focus of Faubion’s philosophy, and it shows.  Since his return to SE in 2004, he has had 21 players selected to the LSC-N All-Academic team or named to the LSC Commissioner’s honor roll.  His club placed 73 on the GAC all-academic team in its first three seasons.
 
He has had several players go on to pursue advanced degrees, including seven players who have gone on to medical school.
 
Following his first term at SE, Faubion took over the program at Missouri Southern State in Joplin, Mo.  While there his teams amassed an 86-28 record, including a school record 52 wins and a berth to the NCAA Division II tournament in 2001 and was named the MIAA Coach of the Year.
 
In 2003, he returned to the Lone Star Conference where he took over the program at Texas A&M-Kingsville.  In his only season, the Javelinas posted a 35-12 record and qualified for the Division II National Tournament and winning the NFCA Leadoff Classic.
 
Prior to coaching in the collegiate ranks, Faubion served as baseball and softball coach at Oologah (Okla.) High School for 21 years where his softball teams compiled a 479-124 record over the 14 years that the program existed.
 
Additionally, he picked up four state championships and five state runner-ups while advancing to seven-straight state title games and nine overall.  As a baseball coach, he compiled a 504-272 record and was named the Oklahoma Baseball High School Coach of the Year in 1995 after leading the Mustangs to the state title.
 
Faubion has also been inducted into the Oklahoma High School Softball Hall of Fame.
 
His wife, Debbie, is a retired teacher and they have three daughters, Shelly, a doctor in Chickasha; Mitsi, a doctor in Stringtown; and Jennifer, who is the Donor Services Quality Coordinator for the Oklahoma Blood Institute.
 
Year School Rec. Post-Season Tourneys
1997 SE 52-9 LSC Champs, NAIA Reg.
1998 SE 36-26 NAIA Reg.
1999 SE 51-15 LSC Champs, NCAA Reg.
2000 SE 45-12 LSC Champs, NCAA Reg.
2001 MSSU 53-12 MIAA Champs, NCAA Reg.
2002 MSSU 34-16 MIAA
2003 TAMUK 35-12 LSC, NCAA Reg.
2004 SE 30-19 LSC
2005 SE 46-24 LSC
2006 SE 42-14 LSC, NCAA Reg.
2007 SE 30-25
2008 SE 53-12 LSC, NCAA Reg.
2009 SE 53-13 LSC, NCAA Reg., NCAA SR
2010 SE 26-26 LSC
2011 SE 36-19 LSC
2012 SE 40-16 GAC
2013 SE 45-9  GAC Champs (RS&PS), NCAA Reg.
2014 SE 45-20 GAC Champs (RS), NCAA Reg., NCAA SR, NCAA Finals (3rd)
2015 SE 32-23 GAC
2016 SE 29-23 GAC
2017 SE 18-34
2018 SE 34-23 GAC
2019 SE 29-28 GAC
2020 SE 15-9 Season Ended Early COVID-19
2021 SE 36-11
948-450 (.678) Overall (25 seasons)
826-410 (.668) at Southeastern (22 seasons)
6 Conference Championships
11 National Tournament Appearances