Pam (Parnell) Fink, a shortstop from Dickson, Tennessee, holds the school season record for batting average, .472 (1988), and was the second Lady Bison to earn NAIA All-America honors.

Returning to OBU in the fall of 1993, she coached OBU softball to 645 wins from 1994 through 2018, and is the all-time winningest coach in all of OBU women’s sports.

As a player, she remains first in career assists; fifth in career batting average (.347); 10th (tie) in career doubles (27); and 15th in career hits (152). She led her teams in batting average and was an All-NAIA District 9 selection in 1985, 1986, and 1988. She received All-America honors in 1988.

As a coach, her record at OBU was 645-644. Her teams reached the NAIA National Tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2014. The 2002 team finished in the final four and the 2014 squad won a school-record 46 games. Fink was named Sooner Athletic Coach of the Year in 2002 and 2011, and was the 2017 NCCAA National Coach of the Year. While at OBU, the softball program generated three National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America Scholar Team Top Ten awards, including the national academic champions of 2001, and produced 26 NAIA All-America Scholar Athletes.

Before returning to OBU, she coached softball and basketball at Sumter County High School in Americus, Georgia, starting the school’s softball program and earning coach of the year honors. She currently is the head softball coach at Northwest (Wa.) University and lives in Kirkland, Washington with her husband and former OBU SID Ray Fink.