www.gobroncs.com 2011 Yearbook 20112010 T.V./RadioT.V./Radio Roster Roster 2 4 6 8 Senior Freshman Sophomore Senior 3B/1B 2B/OF OF UTL 5’6” 5’3” 5’3” 5’3” Brittany Eckett Kehli Washington Heather Muscara Amanda Centeno 9 10 11 12 Senior Freshman Junior Junior P/INF 2B/OF P OF/UTL 5’6” 5’3” 5’9” 5’5” Sam Bennett Lisa Blanton Kelsey Krisch Samantha Mayer 16 17 20 21 Senior Sophomore Junior Freshman SS/2B 3B 1B 1B 5’5” 5’6” 5’9” 5’10” Jen Steward Alyssa Paul Lucy Higgins Ally Coryell 24 25 26 28 Freshman Sophomore Junior Freshman SS C P P/1B 5’10” 5’5” 5’10” 5’6” Laura Gallagher Sam Pugh Rachael Matreale Krysti Maronski BRONC BRIEFS Rider University Softball Yearbook • 2011 Location: Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099 Directions to Rider Enrollment: 5,816 (4,414 undergraduate) Founded: 1865 From New York and North Jersey: Academic Units: College of Business Administration; College of Liberal Arts, Education and Sciences; From the New Jersey Turnpike: Take the NJ College of Continuing Studies; and Westminster College of the Arts Turnpike South to Exit 7A (I-195 West). Fol - low I-195 West to the exit for I-295 North Colors: Cranberry, White, Gray (Princeton). I-295 North will become I-95 Nickname: Broncs South. Take Exit 7A off of I-95 South to U.S. Athletic Affiliation: Route 206 South (Trenton). Rider is a quar - NCAA Division I, ECAC ter mile on the right. Conference: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) From U.S. Route 1 South: take the exit for I- Home Field/Capacity: Herb and Joan Young Field/500 95 South (sign says “To Pennsylvania”). Bear right at junction, following signs for I-95 President: Mordechai Rozanski, Ph.D. South (Pennsylvania). Take exit 7A off of I-95 Director of Athletics: Don Harnum 609-896-5054 South to U.S. Route 206 South (Trenton). Associate AD: Rider is a quarter mile on the right. Karin Torchia 609-896-5249 Associate AD: Greg Busch 609-895-5642 From Pennsylvania: Associate AD: Brian Keane 609-896-5364 Take I-95 North, straight over the Delaware Manager Athletic Business Operations: Lucy Sech 609-895-5650 River into New Jersey. Take Exit 7A off of I- Academic Support Coordinator: Sonya Hurt 609-896-5308 95 to U.S. Route 206 South (Trenton). Rider is a quarter mile on the right. Faculty Athletics Representative: Jonathan Husch, Ph.D. From the Pennsylvania Turnpike: take the PA Athletics Secretary: Cherie Voorhees 609-896-5054 Turnpike east to Exit 28 (Philadelphia) and Head Coach: take U.S. Route 1 North to I-95 North. Con - Tricia Carroll 17th season (Maryland '87) [email protected] 609-896-5396 tinue on I-95 North, straight over the Overall Record/Yrs.: 346-444-2 / 16 yrs. Delaware River into New Jersey. Take Exit Record at Rider/Yrs.: 346-444-2 / 16 yrs. 7A off of I-95 to U.S. Route 206 South (Tren - ton). Rider is a quarter mile on the right. Assistant Coaches: Courtney Lawrence, Heather Beintema 2010 Overall Record: 16-31-1 From the South: 2010 Conference Record/Finish: 8-8/T-5th Take I-295 North. I-295 North will become Post-Season: None I-95 South. Continue on I-95 South and take Letterwinners Returning/Lost: Exit 7A off I-95 South to U.S. Route 206 12/6 South (Trenton). Rider is a quarter mile on Starters Returning/Lost: 6/3 the right. Head Team Physician: Tom Lardner, M.D. From the East: Head Athletic Trainer: Tim Lengle, A.T.C. Assistant Athletic Trainer/Softball: Chris Pantallere, A.T.C. Take the Garden State Parkway to Exit 98 (I- 195 West). Follow I-195 West to the exit for I- Sports Information Director: Bud Focht 609-896-5138 [email protected] 295 North (Princeton). I-295 North will Assistant SID/Softball Contact: Brian Solomon 609-896-5135 [email protected] (cell) 609-929-4068 become I-95 South. Take Exit 7A off of I-95 Sports Information Secretary: South to U.S. Route 206 South (Trenton). Rider Lynn Rugg [email protected] 609-895-5778 is a quarter mile on the right. Athletics FAX: 609-896-0341 Athletics Hotline: 609-219-2000, 2 Athletics Home Page: www.GoBroncs.com On April 12, 2008, the renovated softball field was officially dedicated and named the Herb and Joan Young Softball Field. Page 3 HEAD COACH TRICIA CARROLL Rider University Softball Yearbook • 2011 Patricia “Tricia” Carroll begins her 17th honors and three more earned All-Region honors in 2004 (Maddy Boulden, season at the helm of the Rider University Amanda Tu and Heather Beintema). Dovak also was awarded All-Region softball team with 346 wins. For six years, honors in 2001 and 2002. Carroll coached both softball and field In 2006 and 2007, two of Carroll’s former players, Courtney and Brandey hockey at Rider. Weed, played on the PFX Pro-Fastpitch X-Treme softball tour. The team In 2006, for the third time in four seasons, featured six Olympians including pitcher Lisa Fernandez. Carroll led the Broncs to a berth in the Metro In 2004, Carroll led the Broncs to a 35 win season, tying the school record, Atlantic Athletic Conference postseason tour - and the team advanced to the MAAC Championship game. nament and, for the second time in three years In 2003, Carroll was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach and third time in five semesters, the softball of the Year for guiding a young (no seniors) team to its first berth in the team posted the highest team grade point MAAC tournament and to the MAAC Championship. Carroll led Rider to average of Rider’s 20 varsity sports with a the NCAA National Championship tournament for the second time in seven GPA of 3.44 during the Fall 2006 semester. years and was the Rider University Coach of the Year. Tricia Carroll Every student-athlete on the softball team On the diamond, Carroll has compiled 346 wins and led her first three that was eligible (sophomore or higher) softball teams to the Northeast Conference Title Game, winning the NEC in received MAAC All-Academic honors for the 2006 season. Under Carroll, the 1995 and 1997 and finishing runner-up in 1996. team also had the highest GPA at Rider in the fall of 1997 and the fall of Carroll joined the Rider Department of Athletics in August of 1994 from 2004. Drew University where she guided the 1993 Drew field hockey team to a Since the 1999 season, Carroll has coached three conference Rookie of the 9-5-2 record and to the semifinals of the Eastern College Athletic Confer - Year award winners (Devin Karcesky, Heather Beintema and Deanna Dovak), ence Championship. two Player of the Year honorees (Dovak and Colleen Fox) and a Pitcher of the A 1987 graduate of the University of Maryland, Carroll played four seasons Year (Beintema). Both Fox and Dovak are members of the Rider Athletics at shortstop on the Catholic University softball team before changing majors Hall of Fame. Since 2002, she has also had 10th First Team and nine Second and transferring to Maryland. Team All-Conference honorees. In 2005, Maddy Boulden was named the Carroll is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and served as head coach of the South Jersey Coaches’ Association Player of the Year. Carroll coached Rider’s Catholic University softball and soccer teams for one season after four seasons first All-America honoree in 2001 (Dovak). In 2000, two of Carroll’s players as assistant field hockey and softball coach. She has been a physical education (former Assistant Coach Michelle Walsh & Dovak) received All-Region teacher and assistant director of the Newton Field Hockey camp. ASSISTANT COACH COURTNEY LAWRENCE A 2004 Rider graduate, Courtney including pitcher Lisa Fernandez. A Maybrook, New York native, Courtney Lawrence returns to her alma mater for her graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Courtney first season as an assistant coach. In four led the Broncs in batting average, stolen bases, and on-base percentage her seasons, the former Courtney Weed compiled junior and senior years and led Rider to the 2003 Metro Atlantic Athletic 184 hits, which ranks eighth all-time on the Conference championship and NCAA Tournament. A three-time MAAC All- Rider career hit list. Courtney and her twin Academic honoree, Courtney was a two-time First Team All-MAAC player and sister Brandey played on the 2006 and 2007 was selected to the All-Tournament Team for her standout play at the MAAC PFX Pro-Fastpitch X-Treme softball tour Championships in 2003. with the team featuring six Olympians Courtney Lawrence PITCHING COACH HEATHER BEINTEMA Former Rider standout Heather Beintema 20th nationally in strikeouts per seven innings (8.6) and 21st nationally with returns to the Broncs for her fourth season as an ERA of 0.95 in 2004. Beintema set a career high with 15 K’s as a sopho - pitching coach. A 2006 graduate, Beintema more in seven innings at Lafayette and threw a no-hitter at Niagara and spun owns the career strikeout record with 726 and one-hitters against Columbia and at Fairfield in 2004. Beintema had a streak the single season record for wins (22) and of 45 innings without allowing an earned run. Beintema was the 2005 MAAC strikeouts (244). Beintema led the 2005 Preseason Player of the Year and was the Rider Female Athlete of the Month Broncs in wins, earned run average, innings in March of 2004.