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Barton College

Barton College Athletics
 PO Box 5000 Wilson, NC 27893
Division 2 North Carolina Southeast
Private Small Competitive team
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Melisa Shock

Hired in July of 2022, Melisa Shock is entering her first year as Head Softball Coach at Barton College.


Shock came to Barton after spending the past year (2022) as an Assistant Coach at Valparaiso University, an NCAA Division I school in Valparaiso, Indiana, where she worked primarily with the pitchers. Under Shock, the pitching staff's earned run average decreased by nearly two runs per contest.


Shock also served as Associate Head Coach for Frostburg State (Maryland) University for two years (2019-21), where she helped guide the team to a second-place finish in the Mountain East Conference North Division and a third-place finish in the league tournament in 2021. One of the Frostburg State pitchers under Shock's tutelage earned all-league and all-region accolades


At Frostburg State, Shock developed the team's academic policy and the squad earned the top Grade Point Average for all of NCAA Division II and was awarded the 2021 Easton/NFCA Top Academic Award.


Shock also coached at West Virginia Tech for one year and served as a graduate assistant at Wheeling Jesuit University (2010 and 2011).


Shock, a 2010 graduate of Wittenberg University in Ohio, was a three-year pitcher for the Tigers and earned her MBA from the Keller School of Management in 2012.

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McCrae Knapp

McCrae Knapp is beginning her first season as an Assistant Coach for the Barton College Softball Team in 2023.


Knapp, a 2022 graduate of Barton College, was a four-year letter winner on the softball team (2019-22) and earned All-Conference Carolinas honors as a junior in 2021.


Knapp, who earned her bachelor’s degree in sports management with a minor in business administration, worked with the Edenton Steamers in Edenton, N.C., this summer and interned in the Barton College Athletics Office this past spring. Knapp is a native of Hertford, N.C.

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