Kristy Booher Angelo is in her eighth season as the head coach of the junior varsity softball team, and also serves as an assistant with the varsity team as well as the director of softball operations. She has more than a decade of coaching experience under her belt, having served as a collegiate women’s basketball coach at Lakeland Community College and NCAA Division II Lake Erie College for a combined six seasons. She also was the Gilmour Middle School volleyball and girls basketball coach for two years.

Angelo joined Gilmour Academy in August 2009 and is currently serving as the associate director of athletics for the Upper School as well as the director of athletics for the Middle School. She was named Middle School Athletic Director of the Year in 2014 by the Northeast Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NEOIAAA). She is the creator and on-air talent of Lancer Lowdown and is the founder of Swing for a Solution – a fundraising effort which raises awareness for autism. Since its debut in May 2010, the program has raised more than $13,000.

Angelo came to Gilmour with nine years of experience at the collegiate level as a director of sports media relations and as a sports information director at such institutions as Lake Erie College, Notre Dame College and Lakeland Community College. While in these positions, her writing was featured in the national publication Touchdown Illustrated and won awards in the CoSIDA Fred S. Stabley Sr. Writing Contest and CoSIDA Grants Contest. At Gilmour, her writing skills were recognized with the Gold Medal Award from the National High School Sports Publication Awards (NHSSPA) for the “Return to Glory” football media guide she wrote and edited.

A graduate of Willoughby South High School, Angelo was a combined seven-year letter winner in basketball and softball, earning multiple all-conference, All-Ohio and player of the week honors for both sports, including the two-time state champion and four-time Greater Cleveland Conference (GCC) champion softball team. She is a member of the Rebel Hall of Fame. Booher continued her softball career at Lakeland, earning all-conference and all-region, while also becoming the program’s first National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Academic All-American.

She has an associate’s degree from Lakeland and a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism where she is also in the WOUB Radio and Television Hall of Fame. Angelo currently resides in Lyndhurst, Ohio, with her husband Tom and continues to play softball for several local teams. In her softball career, she has been a member of several national championships at the amateur level.