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Coach Alicia

Alicia Herron has been playing the game of softball since the age of four. As an accomplished former Division I student-athlete with collegiate coaching experience and a Master's Degree in Education, she’s committed to developing future leaders on and off the diamond. Coach Alicia is a multifaceted and detail-oriented individual with strong leadership, teaching, mentoring, advising, and organizational skills. Some of her coaching strengths are her resourcefulness and ability to generate excitement and interest.

After playing professionally for four seasons, Coach Alicia has coached at the D1 level for four years at the University of New Mexico (1) and Iowa State University (3). Coach Alicia has provided elite instruction and consulting services to beginning and experienced softball players alike in offense, defense, agility and pitching. She is not only committed to producing quality athletes but ensuring both mental and mechanical techniques are tailored to the athlete and current situation. She has exceeded her dreams of becoming a professional softball player and collegiate coach and continues to pay it forward by helping build the next generation of ballers!

Ohio State

Alicia Herron completed her career as the Ohio State record holder in career runs scored (168), second in home runs (49) and RBI (176), third in hits (226), fourth in triples (11) and doubles (40) and fifth in walks (113) and batting average (.367). A four-time All-Big Ten and All-Region selection, she concluded her Buckeye career with a .378 average, 48 runs scored, 51 hits and 14 home runs in 2012. As a freshman, Herron helped the Buckeyes advance to its first Super Regional in program history after breaking the OSU freshman home runs record with 14 in 2009. Herron also excelled in the classroom during her time at Ohio State, becoming the first Buckeye in program history to be named a First Team Academic All-American. Coach Alicia graduated from The Ohio State University in fall of 2012 with a degree in speech and hearing sciences, was a three-time Academic All-District and Academic All-Big Ten honoree and a four-time OSU Scholar-Athlete.

Career Highlights

-Ohio State Varsity Athlete

-First Team All Big Ten

-First Team All-Midwest honoree

-First-Team Academic All

-America Softball

-Big Ten Medal of Honor Scholarship Recipient

-3 Time Academic All District and Academic All-Big Ten Honoree

-2011 USA Softball Player of the Year watch list

-Professional Teams: In Australia and Italy and Akron Racers

-Graduated Magna Cume Laude

-Masters in Education

Coach LI

Lisa Iancin also known as "Coach L.I." has dedicated her life to softball. Most recently, she was the hitting coach for the professional softball team the New York Rise. Professionally, she competed in the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) league for 5 seasons, gathering a national championship in 2004 with the New York/New Jersey Juggernaut and in 2006 with the New England Riptide. In 2005, Coach L.I. was named the NPF Defensive Player of the Year.

In college, Coach L.I. earned a full scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley. Among her accolades as a Golden Bear are First Team All-Pac 10 and back-to-back appearances at the Women’s College World Series in 1999 and 2000. Internationally, Coach L.I. played for Team Bussolengo, Italy in 2001.

Coach L.I. was the Assistant General Manager of the Tennessee Diamonds for the 2010 National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) season. Prior, Coach L.I. was the Marketing/Instruction/Public Relations Coordinator of the Jennie Finch Softball Academy – Diamond Nation in Flemington, New Jersey. From 2006-2009, Coach L.I. was the Assistant Softball Coach at the George Washington University in which she concurrently completed a Masters in Tourism Administration with an emphasis in Sports Management.

• Featured as a softball extra in the movie "How Do You Know" with Reese Witherspoon
• NPF Champion 2004 with New York/New Jersey Juggernaut
• NPF Defensive Player of the Year 2005
• Played in Women's College World Series with CAL Berkely in 1999 and 2000
• Assistant Coach at the George Washington University for 3 seasons
• Masters degree in Sports Management
• Assistant General Manager of the NPF Tennessee Diamonds in the 2010 season
• Instruction/Public Relations/Marketing Coordinator of the Jennie Finch Softball Academy
• 10 years experience as a fastpitch softball instructor and team clinician

Coach Nick

Nick Dini has had a very successful baseball career from playing at Wagner to playing in the MLB with the Kansas City Royals, NY Mets, and Tampa Bay Rays Organizations. Coach Nick was a 14th Round Draft pick by the Kansas City Royals. From there, he went on to A-Ball in Lexington, AA-Ball in NW Arkansas, AAA-Ball in Omaha, and was promoted to the MLB as Catcher for the Kansas City Royals. Currently Coach Nick is committed to developing elite-level players who strive for excellence both on and off the field.

Coach Nick’s College Playing Career consisted of many accolades including:

ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division I Third-Team All-American (2015)
ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division I Northeast All-Region First Team (2015)
Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) All-Star First Team
Louisville Slugger NCAA Division I All-American Third Team (2015)
Northeast Conference (NEC) Player of the Year (2015)
Northeast Conference (NEC) First Team (2013, 2015)
Northeast Conference (NEC) Batting Champion (2015)
Johnny Bench Award Watch List nominee (2014, 2015)
2015 Major League Baseball (MLB) First-Year Player Draft (Rd 14, Kansas City Royals)

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