Softball Announces Jennifer Lapicki as Associate Head Coach

Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham softball head coach Melissa Inouye has today announced the hiring of Jennifer Lapicki as associate head coach for the 2021-22 season. Lapicki arrives in the Bronx after serving as head coach at Holy Cross for the past five years.
 
"We are thrilled to welcome Coach Lapicki and her family to Fordham and our softball program." Inouye said, "She brings so much passion, knowledge, and experience to our program in all facets of the game. Coach Lapicki is a great teacher of the game and our student-athletes will benefit from her both on and off the field. I've known her for almost 10 years now and she's a great coach, but an even better person and I'm so excited for our staff and student-athletes to be around her." 

 
Over the course of her five seasons, Lapicki guided the Crusaders to a return to the Patriot League tournament for the first time in six years, doing so in her first season in charge, and their most overall wins in nearly a decade, in 2019. She has overseen six student-athletes earn All-League honors and seven placed on the All-Academic team, plus one Patriot League Scholar Athlete of the Year, a first for the program, and two NFCA All-Region awards.  
 
Prior to her time at Holy Cross, Lapicki spent one year as the head coach of the New Jersey Breakers, leading four age groups and seven teams. Before that, she was an assistant coach at Princeton for three seasons, helping the Tigers to three consecutive second-place finishes in the Ivy League South Division, and spent one year at Iona in the same position, seeing the Gaels win the MAAC regular season and tournament titles in 2012 and advanced to NCAA Regionals.
 
Lapicki graduated from Florida State where she spent two seasons, earning All-Academic and Second Team All-Atlantic Coast each year, plus All-Tournament honors as a senior when the Seminoles topped the ACC. She spent her first two years at Tennessee where she garnered a spot on the Southeast Conference All-Freshman squad and, a year later, CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team honors. She competed in NCAA Regionals in each year.