Coaches

Claudia Stabile

Claudia Stabile has been at the helm of the Pace University softball team since 1982, leading the Setters to 810 wins during that time. Now in her 43rd season, Stabile is the longest-tenured active head coach across all NCAA Divisions.


Coach Stabile won her 750th career game on April 3, 2021 against Saint Rose. She is currently 1 of just 18 active head coaches in all of Division II to join the "750 Club".


In addition to her softball coaching duties, Stabile recently completed her tenth year as the Associate Athletic Director for Student Services and Success as well as the Senior Women’s Administrator.


In a career that has seen great success for more than four decades, Stabile may have put together her greatest accomplishments most recently. Over the last seven full seasons, Stabile has led the Blue and Gold to four NCAA bids, the program’s first-ever Northeast-10 Conference Championship and more than 150 victories.


Most recently, in 2023 Pace finished the season 26-22 returning to the NCAA East Regionals winning one game during the tournament.


In 2019, the Blue and Gold ended the regular season with a 12-1 stretch to appear in their sixth straight NE10 Championship Tournament. Coach Stabile's team would go on to win two games in the postseason before falling in the semifinals.


The Setters' 2018 squad racked up 27 triumphs en route to earning an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament. Pace closed the regular season on a nine-game winning streak before advancing all the way to the NE10 Championship Game.


The 2016 season also served as a banner campaign for Stabile as she was named the NE10 Coach of the Year after leading the Setters to their first-ever conference championship. En route to the title, the Setters put together a 26-16 regular season, including a 17-7 clip against league foes. After earning the right to host the NE10 Tournament, Pace defeated No. 3 Adelphi and top-seeded Southern New Hampshire to earn the school's first-ever conference championship.


Sophomore Larissa Labs was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player in 2016 while Jaclyn Flores and Victoria Quinones were each named to the All-Tournament Team.


During the 2015 campaign, Stabile coached the team to a 25-17, 11-7 Southwest Division record after winning six of her final seven regular season games to claim a NE-10 Playoff berth. Following the NE-10 Playoffs, the Setters earned an at-large bid into NCAA Division II Tournament. The team landed five players on the NE-10 All-Conference teams including Jeane Drury who was also named to the Daktronics/Division II Conference Commissioner's Association All-East Region First Team.


In 2014, Stabile turned in one of the finest coaching performances of her illustrious career. The Setters won 17 of their final 28 games and qualified for the Northeast-10 Conference tournament as the #3 seed in the Southwest Division. Pace earned six All-Conference accolades including Shelby Yung pulling in Rookie of the Year honors. Yung was later recognized as a National Fastpitch Coach Association East Region First Team and a Daktronics All-East Region Second Team pick.


Stabile has a long track record of success on the field and in the classroom. Coach Stabile’s teams have been strong academically particularly in the past two years. The Softball team posted the highest grade point average in the 16-member Northeast-10 Conference and ranked among the leaders nationally the past two academic years. In 2010-11, softball was 25th in Division II in team GPA and moved up to third place in the nation during the 2011-12 year. She has also had five players named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team during her tenure as coach.


On the field, Stabile has coached 74 All-Conference players (53 NE-10, 9 NYCAC, 12 Hudson Valley) as well as two All-Americans, five Academic All-District selections and 27 All-Region honorees. Her teams have seen success on the field as she has guided her teams to back-to-back Hudson Valley Conference Titles in 1987 and 1988 as well as an ECAC Tournament Title in 2002 and an Empire State Conference title in 1989. The Setters advanced to the ECAC Division II championships in 1987, 1988, 1989 and won the title in 2002.


A 1980 graduate of Fordham University, Stabile earned her Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and received her Master's Degree in Education Administration and Supervision.