Karen Costello Position: Volunteer Coach Experience: First Year Alma Mater: Humboldt State '81

Karen Costello enters her first season as a volunteer coach with the women's team after having coached high school and community college athletes for the past 20 years. She coached in Salinas, CA at Notre Dame HS, Salinas HS and Hartnell Community College. While at Hartnell, her athletes won the West Coast Conference title and the Northern California Championship, helping her garner West Coast Conference Coach of the Year accolades.

As an athlete at Humboldt State University, Costello set four school records and was named to the All-Far Western Conference track team on two occasions. She also ran cross country for Hartnell College as a 31-year old mother of two and helped her team win the California Small College Championship in 1991 as the No. 1 runner. She held course records as well and earned All-WCC and All-NorCal team honors.

Costello is currently working on a Masters degree in Sports and Exercise Psychology from Argosy University. She earned her B.A. in Journalism in 1981 from Humboldt State. She has two children, A.J. who is a senior pre-med major at the University of San Diego and Alycia, a senior human performance major at USC. She resides in Malibu with her three dogs.