This weekend's NCAA Division Three women's softball championships hosted by UW-Eau Claire is a homecoming for one of the most famous Blugold athletes. Black River Falls native Jill Janke hit the game-winning homer two years ago as UW-Eau Claire beat Whitewater in the national championship game in Salem, Virginia. As SportScene 13's Matt Queen tells us, Jill returns to Eau Claire this week not as a player, but with the same goal of winning a national title.

Jill Janke: "Right before that pitch, I was thinking, 'give me something good to hit', and then I swung and hit it and I was thinking 'get out of here!'"

Jill Janke's walk-off home run against UW-Whitewater gave the Blugolds the 2008 Division Three national championship.

Jill: "Thinking about it makes me smile. Something like that I don't think will ever get old.

Two years later, she returns to Eau Claire for another swing at glory.

Jill Janke/Former Blugolds Softball Player: "After you've won a national championship, you're always wanting one more. And as soon as I won one as a player, I knew I wanted to win one as a coach."

Janke is a graduate assistant at Ithaca College, passing on her knowledge and big-game experience.

Jill: "Every once in awhile, they'll be like, tell us about the World Series, tell us about when you won. They love to hear the story. I think they like to see my reaction to it, because they can tell it means a lot to me and it was something so special that I'll never forget it and I think it's something they really want to experience."

Matt Queen/Reporting: The last time Eau Claire hosted the D-3 softball championship, Ithaca won it all. Now Janke and her team want to do it again.

Jill: "Just getting the experience of getting to work with two great programs that are top-notch programs, and great coaches. I've gotten to learn a lot. I've kind of taken some things that I learned with Eau Claire and taken them to Ithaca...it's been a good mix of both. To have the opportunity to do that on the field that I played on is amazing."