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In January 2008, Gale Bundrick joined the Arizona coaching staff as the team's volunteer assistant coach. A native Arizonan, Bundrick has been coaching softball for 30 years.
Bundrick earned notoriety in the Old Pueblo for his work as Canyon Del Oro High School's pitching coach; a position in which he served for the last 23 years. In that time, the Dorados won three state championships, including one in 2007, to go along with a pair of state runner-up finishes. Over that time, seven of Bundrick's pitchers at CDO went on to pitch at the Division I level. Additionally, Bundrick has been one of Tucson's esteemed private pitching instructors since 1989, tutoring other eventual-Division I prospects.
In 2000, he retired from 26 years of work with Pima County Parks and Recreation, where he served in several positions including the natural resource superintendent and the director of the department.
A long-time veteran of both playing and coaching fastpitch softball, Bundrick began pitching for men's fast pitch teams in Southern Arizona in 1969 and would do so for the next 12 years. Later, he facilitated the start-up of the first ASA 14-U softball team in Tucson, which now reigns as the largest youth softball body in the country.
Born in Miami, Ariz., Bundrick grew up in Coolidge before going on to The University of Arizona, where he lettered in football as a linebacker.
Two weeks prior to the start of the 2008 season, he and his wife Carla celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. The couple has three grown children, Christa, Brian and Brandi; as well as eight grandchildren. His daughter Brandi played softball at San Diego State, while Brian is a former Miami (Fla.) baseball player.
