Tairia Flowers

Tairia Flowers, born Tairia Mims in Tucson, Arizona, in 1981, is an American softball coach and former player who is head coach at Loyola Marymount University and for the Portland Cascade of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League. She played first base and catcher for the UCLA Bruins from 2000 to 2003, won the 2003 Women's College World Series and finished among the program's top five in RBIs and home runs. With the United States women's national softball team she won gold at the 2002 world championship, the 2003 Pan American Games and the 2004 Summer Olympics, and silver at the 2008 Olympics. She played for the Arizona Heat of National Pro Fastpitch in 2005 and previously coached Cal State Northridge.