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Veteran coach Charlie Kennedy joined the SIUE Cougar softball staff in July 2019.

Kennedy was previously the head coach at Lindenwood-Belleville, starting the program from scratch before the 2012 season.

In eight seasons as the Lynx head coach, Kennedy won 258 games and had a winning percentage of .590. He led Lindenwood-Belleville to two United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) Championships before the program transitioned to National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) competition in 2015. The Lynx won the American Midwest Conference (AMC) and were NAIA National Runners-up in 2015.

In 2019, the Lynx finished third in the AMC with an 18-6 league record.

Kennedy also has coached at UMSL, Maryville and at Ursuline Academy, a Catholic high school in St. Louis.

The native of St. Louis, Missouri, earned a bachelor's in health and physical education from Missouri-St. Louis in 1990. He completed his master's in education administration at Lindenwood-Belleville in 2014. He has two adult children, daughter Taylor and son Alex.