Saint Francis University

Saint Francis University Dept of Athletics
140 Lakeview Drive Loretto, PA 15940

Division 1 Pennsylvania Northeast

Private Small National competitor

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Beth Krysiak

Saint Francis announced the hiring of Beth Krysiak as the 13th softball head coach in program history in August 2023.

Krysiak joins Saint Francis after she spent four seasons at Columbia University, where she worked primarily with pitching. During her tenure, she coached 2023 All-Ivy Second Team selection pitcher Raquel Reyes and 2022 All-Ivy Honorable Mention pitcher Jordan Hill. Columbia totaled 11 All-Ivy selections during Krysiak's stint with the program.

Prior to her time at Columbia, Krysiak spent the 2019 season at Carnegie Mellon as the pitching coach after a five-year stint at the University of Dallas as the head coach. During her tenure with Dallas, she brought the Crusaders on its deepest Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament run in program history in 2016. Dallas was a two-time 20-win program under Krysiak.

She began her coaching career in 2010 as a graduate assistant at Ottawa University and spent time as an assistant at Buena Vista University and Prairie View A&M before Dallas.

Krysiak earned her Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from Ottawa in 2012 and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Bachelor of Science in Health and Exercise Science in 2010 from Centenary College of Louisiana. She was a five-year member of the softball team at Centenary.