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Bentley University

Waltham, MA 02154
Massachusetts Northeast
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Terry A. McDonough

The 2023 season was a historic season for Terry A. McDonough and the Bentley University softball program. McDonough led the Falcons to the NCAA East Region 1 finals and in the process, broke the school record for wins for a second straight season with 30. She was named the 2023 NE10 Coach of the Year, saw five of her student-athletes named to the NE10 All-Conference teams and three make the first team, Jordan Krause, Payton Doiron and Sabrina Grizzaffi. Sam Petow was voted the NE10 Defensive Player of the Year and Krause and Doiron were named second team All-East Region.


2023 was McDonough's 8th season as the head coach at Bentley. The 2022 season saw her and the Falcons set the previous school record for wins with 24.


She came to Bentley in 2015 as an assistant coach, was the interim head coach during the 2016 campaign and was named the head coach during the summer of 2016.


A 1988 graduate of Southern New Hampshire University and a member of its Athletic Hall of Fame, McDonough was a member of the SNHU staff from 1999-2014 with her duties including assistant director of athletics, senior women’s administrator, head women’s soccer coach and softball coach.


McDonough totaled 119 wins during her 15 seasons as the Penmen soccer coach, registering a record of 119-124-35 with two NCAA regional appearances (2003, 2012) and a Northeast-10 championship in 2012. She also coached softball for six years, posting a 76-140 mark with a 19-17 record in 2004 her best. Five of her softball teams improved on the previous year’s win total.


Before returning to her alma mater, McDonough spent two years at Keene State College as the assistant director of athletics and assistant women’s soccer coach.


McDonough, who is an NASM National Certified Personal Trainer and a former assistant coach for the Massachusetts Drifters Gold Team, began her collegiate coaching career at Daniel Webster College in 1994 as the SWA and women’s soccer coach. She also coached the Eagles’ softball team and was promoted to Director of Athletics before making the shift to Keene.


Before embarking on her college career as a two-sport standout at SNHU, McDonough earned All-Scholastic honors from the Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Brockton Enterprise in both girls’ soccer and softball at East Bridgewater High School.

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Mike Hill

Mike enters his second season as Bentley University's head baseball coach with the 2024 season.


After more than two decades as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Hill became just the second head baseball coach in Bentley history on July 1, 2022. He succeeded the legendary Bob DeFelice, who led the Falcons for 54 years.


A former Bentley baseball All-America and Northeast-10 Player of the Year, Hill served as an assistant baseball coach at his alma mater for 21 years.


Hill, a 2005 inductee into the Bentley Athletic Hall of Fame, was a standout for the Falcons from 1994-97 and is considered by many to be the best player to ever wear a Bentley uniform. The East Bridgewater native is the program's all-time leader in home runs (43), total bases (387), RBI (191) and slugging percentage (.763), and his .379 career batting average ranks second in school history. In 1996 alone, he hit .410, slugged 19 home runs (a single season school record), leading Division II in home runs per game, and knocked in 68 runs (a single season school record).


Following graduation, Hill was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 41st round and played a season with the Sarasota White Sox in the Gulf Coast League in 1997. Hill's younger bother Roger was also a standout at Bentley from 1997-2000 and is the school's all-time leader in hits with 239.


Hill graduated from Bentley in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management. He currently resides in Mansfield with his wife Cheryl and daughter, Kiley.


Hill was inducted into the Northeast-10 Conference Hall of Fame in June 2007, the Cranberry League Hall of Fame in 2009 and the East Bridgewater High School Hall of Fame in 2021.

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Tom Novick

Tom Novick joined the Bentley University staff as pitching coach in September 2022. The 2024 sesaon will be his second with the Falcons.


A 2018 graduate of the University of San Diego, Novick received his first taste of Northeast-10 baseball in 2019 while working on his master’s degree in finance at Southern New Hampshire. He came out of the bullpen for the Penmen, who led Division II in ERA and captured the NCAA Division II East Regional title.


After two years at SNHU, Novick was the pitching coach at Carson-Newman in 2021 where he helped the Eagles record their best ERA since 2016 and twice defeat nationally-ranked teams.


At Adelphi in 2022, Novick coached a pitching staff that led the NE10 Southwest Division in ERA and featured the Southwest Division Rookie Pitcher of the Year. Novick helped lower the team ERA by 1.46 runs and decrease the walks per 9 innings from 6.07 to 3.59 compared to 2021.


Novick’s resume also includes coaching in the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League with the Riverhead Tomcats in 2019, serving as a general manager and the assistant pitching director of the Collegiate League of the Palm Beaches, and working as a summer intern with Cressey Sports Performance, where he specialized in the development of pitchers.


A native of Sudbury, Mass, Novick majored in finance at San Diego.

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