Completed Event: Softball versus Augustana on October 5, 2025 ,
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FINAL
Softball
vs Augustana
South Dakota State University Athletics
Softball
Shannon Pivovar
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- Shannon.Pivovar@sdstate.edu
Shannon Pivovar is in her fifth season at South Dakota State, joining the program in 2014. Prior to the Jackrabbits, Pivovar worked one season as a graduate assistant at Wayne State College for Wood.
Pivovar handles the team’s defense and has helped the group to a four-year fielding percentage of .959, including a Division 1-best .970 mark in 2018. The team won a Division I record 37 games that season and reached the postseason for the second time in school history (first time at Division I).
A native of Ralston, Nebraska, Pivovar was a standout at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Missouri with the Griffon softball team. A four-year starter in the middle infield, she earned All-Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association honors three times, adding All-North Central Region honors in 2008. She also helped Missouri Western to a pair of NCAA Tournaments.
The 2010 Missouri Western Female Athlete of the Year, Pivovar ranks in the top-10 in six career categories at MWSU, including; games played, hits and runs batted in. She also ranks in the top-10 in home runs, walks and total bases in a single season.
Pivovar also excelled in the classroom, earning All-MIAA academic honors three times, finishing her Griffon career with a 3.80 grade point average. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in sports management, with a minor in business.
In addition to her work on the field and in the classroom, Pivovar also served on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee throughout college as president, vice-president and secretary while working for the Missouri Western sports information department.
After her time at Missouri Western, Pivovar moved on to Creighton where she spent two years as a sports information intern before landing a full-time position as the assistant sports information director in 2012-13.
Pivovar handles the team’s defense and has helped the group to a four-year fielding percentage of .959, including a Division 1-best .970 mark in 2018. The team won a Division I record 37 games that season and reached the postseason for the second time in school history (first time at Division I).
A native of Ralston, Nebraska, Pivovar was a standout at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Missouri with the Griffon softball team. A four-year starter in the middle infield, she earned All-Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association honors three times, adding All-North Central Region honors in 2008. She also helped Missouri Western to a pair of NCAA Tournaments.
The 2010 Missouri Western Female Athlete of the Year, Pivovar ranks in the top-10 in six career categories at MWSU, including; games played, hits and runs batted in. She also ranks in the top-10 in home runs, walks and total bases in a single season.
Pivovar also excelled in the classroom, earning All-MIAA academic honors three times, finishing her Griffon career with a 3.80 grade point average. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in sports management, with a minor in business.
In addition to her work on the field and in the classroom, Pivovar also served on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee throughout college as president, vice-president and secretary while working for the Missouri Western sports information department.
After her time at Missouri Western, Pivovar moved on to Creighton where she spent two years as a sports information intern before landing a full-time position as the assistant sports information director in 2012-13.
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