Rowan University

Rowan University Athletics
Esbjornson Gymnasium - 201 Mullica Hill Rd Glassboro, NJ 08028

Division 3 New Jersey Northeast

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Kim Wilson

Kim Wilson, one of the winningest all-time coaches in NCAA Division III softball, enters her 28th season as Rowan’s head coach in 2024. The Hall of Fame coach has led the Profs to eight New Jersey Athletic Conference titles and 19 NCAA Tournament appearances, including a third-place national finish.

Wilson’s 27-year record at Rowan is 878-293-2, while her overall mark in 33 years of coaching, which includes six seasons at Washington & Jefferson College, is 943-350-2. At the start of the 2023 season, she ranked sixth in all-time victories and 13th in winning percentage among active Division III coaches. She was inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Hall of Fame in December of 2023.

Rowan’s 19 NCAA Regional appearances under Wilson include five trips to the NCAA Super Regional, including back-to-back berths in 2018 and 2019, while the 2023 and 2018 squads captured the title to advance to the NCAA Finals.

The 2023 Profs went 42-10 and captured the NJAC regular-season title with a 17-1 record while Wilson earned the conference’s Coach of the Year award for the ninth time and the third year in a row. Rowan went on win the NCAA Marietta Regional title and then the NCAA Ashland Super Regional to advance to the NCAA Finals for the seventh time in school history.

Wilson’s Profs added to the tradition in 2022 when Rowan captured the NJAC Championship and made another trip to the NCAA Tournament while posting an overall record of 35-10. She was named the NJAC Co-Coach of the Year, earning her eighth conference award as she guided the Profs to the regular-season title with a 15-3 league record.

Wilson's 2021 squad went 27-7 and 17-1 in the NJAC, to capture the regular-season crown and the top seed in the conference tournament. The coach, who was named the NJAC Coach of the Year for the seventh time in her career, recorded her milestone 800th win at Rowan on May 7, 2021, with a 3-0 win over Ramapo in the NJAC Tournament. Rowan also finished the year ranked 18th in the NFCA Division III Top 25 Poll.

The Profs’ chances for a third straight trip to the NCAA Super Regional were thwarted in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic, as Rowan’s season ended in March with a 5-2-1 record. In 2019, Rowan captured the NCAA Cambridge Regional title in thrilling fashion as the No. 23 Profs used 14 innings to defeat MIT, but fell to Eastern Connecticut State in the Super Regional to finish the season with a 33-15 record.

The 2018 Profs advanced to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament in Oklahoma City after capturing the NCAA Regional and Super Regional titles. The coach hit two milestone victories that year, with her 700th win at Rowan coming over Randolph College on February 24, 2018, and the 800th in her overall career being the win over Moravian College on May 20, 2018 that gave the Profs the NCAA Super Regional title. Wilson guided Rowan to its seventh NJAC title and a 39-13-1 record while she and her assistants were named the National Fastpitch Coaches Association East Region Coaching Staff of the Year. In 2017, Rowan compiled a 33-11 mark and reached the final of the NCAA Babson Park Regional.

Wilson’s 2016 squad finished tied for third at the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament for the best finish in Rowan history, after compiling titles at the NCAA Cortland Regional and the Ithaca Super Regional. The Profs set a school mark for victories with a 42-11 record while team captured the NJAC Championship.

Wilson was chosen the 2015 NJAC Coach of the Year as the team went 38-8, reached the NJAC title game and the final of the NCAA Alfred Regional. That followed a 37-12 record in 2014 with a conference crown and the NCAA Ithaca Regional title, which advanced Rowan to the NCAA Rochester Super Regional. The 2013 squad went 41-9 with an appearance in the NCAA Babson Park Regional as Wilson earned NJAC Coach of the Year honors.

The 2012 Profs went 39-9, won the NJAC championship and advanced to the final of the NCAA Union Regional. Wilson was named the NJAC Co-Coach of the Year in 2011 as Rowan went 31-13 and earned an NCAA at-large bid, following a 28-13 record in 2010.

Wilson was selected as the NJAC and Division III Metro Softball Combat Sports/Eastern College Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2009, after guiding her team to a 35-12 mark and its second straight at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, following the achievement of the 2008 team that finished 31-11.

The 2006 Profs went 41-7 to set a then-school record for wins and reach the final of the NCAA Regional Tournament. Prior to that, Wilson’s teams were 25-14 in 2005, 28-10 in 2004 and 19-15 in 2003.

The 2001 and 2002 squads won back-to-back NJAC titles, with the 2002 Profs going 33-16 and advancing to the NCAA Regional Final. In 2000, Rowan posted a 32-13 record following a 37-10 season in 1999 that featured a regional title and Wilson being named the NJAC Coach of the Year for the second year in a row.

In her first two seasons at Rowan, Wilson gave a glimpse of the success that the program would enjoy under her tutelage. She earned Coach of the Year honors in both the Atlantic Region and the NJAC in 1998 as she guided the Profs to a 35-9 record, the conference title and an NCAA Regional appearance. In her debut as Rowan’s ninth head coach in 1997, the Profs compiled a 35-5 mark and earned a berth in the NCAA Regional.

She came to Rowan after six years as head softball coach at Washington & Jefferson College, where she compiled a 64-57 record, led her team to the 1996 Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) championship and was named the league’s Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1996.

Originally from Erie, PA, Wilson played volleyball and softball at Slippery Rock University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1989. She has been extremely involved in the sport as the chair of the NCAA Division III East Region Advisory Committee and as a member of the National Softball Committee and the NFCA Head Coaches Committee.

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Mary Murray

Mary Murray enters her third season with the Profs as the assistant coach and primary pitching coach. She served as a volunteer assistant coach during the 2021 season.

She joined the Rowan staff after a successful playing career at Arcadia University, where she compiled a 36-17 career record in the circle with a 1.83 ERA and 236 strikeouts over three years. Despite a senior year that was cut short because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she was a three-time Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) All-Commonwealth honoree, earning First Team honors twice. Murray was the 2019 MAC Commonwealth Pitcher of the Year after going 14-4 with a 0.86 ERA; she was also chosen to the NFCA All-Region First Team and was named an All-America Scholar Athlete.

Following the shortened 2020 season, she was honored as the MAC Softball Senior Scholar-Athlete and received the Arcadia Athletics Female Senior Athlete Award. She was also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team.

Murray has also competed and coached on the international level, representing Great Britain. She was a member of the Great Britain Under-22 Women’s National Softball Team. In 2019, she competed in the Canada Cup in Vancouver, Canada, and also represented Great Britain in the Women’s European Cup in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria, where her club The Mix won silver. She was selected to the Under-22 Women’s National Team in 2020 and would have competed in Prague, Czech Republic (but the tournament was suspended due to the pandemic). She previously serves as the Great Britain Under-15 Women’s National Team’s Pitching Coach and Team Operations Manager, and will be coaching in the Under-15 Women’s European Cup in Enschede, Netherlands this July. She will also be competing in the Women’s European Cup with The Mix in Avigliana, Italy, where she will be representing Great Britain.

Murray graduated magna cum laude from Arcadia University in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Global Media, where she was also a member of the Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society. She earned her master’s degree in Communications from Johns Hopkins University in 2021. She currently lives in Bellmawr, NJ and is on leadership as the Communications Director with The Hidden Opponent, a non-profit organization aimed at breaking the stigma of mental health in athletics.