Patti Townsend

Patti Townsend, formerly Patti Benedict, is an American softball coach and former player who has coached at Tallahassee Community College since 1996 and been its head coach since 2003. She played college softball at the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1993, where she was a first-team NFCA All-American in 1993 and Big Ten Conference Player of the Year in 1992 and 1993. She played professionally for the Georgia Pride and the Florida Wahoos and was named Most Valuable Player of the Women's Professional Softball League in 2000. She also played for Team USA in 1995 and 1997 and was a member of the United States team that won the gold medal at the 1995 Pan American Games.