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Ex-Badger Gillette to coach MATC’s resurrected softball program

Getting a new job usually calls for a celebration — a night out with the friends, a fancy dinner with the family or even a small get-together with a few bottles of cheap champagne.

So what was Madison Area Technical College’s newly hired softball coach Boo Gillette, a former University of Wisconsin catcher, doing the day it was announced she would be leading the reborn program in 2007? Why, getting ready to write a 10-page paper that was due the next day, of course.