Lauren Grief joined the Buena Vista softball coaching staff during the summer of 2025 and begins her first season as an assistant coach for the Beavers in the spring of 2026.Â
Prior to arriving in Storm Lake, Grief spent the 2024 and 2025 seasons as an assistant coach at Lakeland University. The 2024 campaign was spent as an assistant alongside current BVU head coach Tammy Utley.
During her time with the Muskies, Grief was part of a team that posted a school-record 35 wins in 2024 and made the conference tournament in both seasons.
Grief was a graduate assistant coach at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wis., for two years prior to joining the Lakeland staff. As a college athlete at Alverno from 2018-21, she played a multitude of positions, and as a four-year starter, she appeared in a total of 111 games, including 49 games as a pitcher. At the plate she finished with 75 career hits, including eight doubles and six home runs, while driving in 37 runs. Greif also threw 116 innings as a pitcher, collecting five wins and throwing six complete games in her 17 career starts.
A four-time NACC Scholar Athlete, Greif received her bachelor’s degree from Alverno in business management in May 2021. She is a native of Chicago and a graduate of Lane Tech College Prep High School, where she was a team captain and member of an Illinois state regional championship team as a senior.
