COACHING STAFF
Kim Wilson, Head Coach
Kim Wilson, one of the winningest all-time coaches in Division III softball with 943 career victories, enters her 28th season as the head coach of the Rowan University softball team in 2023-24. During her career, she has led the Profs to eight New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships and 19 NCAA Tournament appearances, including a third-place national finish in 2016, and a fifth-place national finish in 2023. She was inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches’ Association (NFCA) Hall of Fame in 2023.
Wilson’s 27-year record at Rowan is 878-293-2, while her overall record in 33 years of coaching, including six seasons at Washington & Jefferson College, is 943-350-2. Entering the 2023 season, she ranked 13th for win percentage and 6th for victories among active Division III coaches. Wilson ranked 20th for win percentage and 10th for victories among all-time Division III coaches.
Rowan’s 19 NCAA Regional appearances under Wilson include 5 trips to the NCAA Super Regionals, most recently in 2023 when the Profs captured the Ashland Super Regional title to advance to the program’s 7th National Championship Tournament appearance in Marshall, Texas. The Brown and Gold made back-to-back Super Regional appearances in 2018 and 2019, where the 2018 squad captured the title to advance to the National Championship Tournament in Oklahoma City. The Profs also reached the Super Regional round in 2014 and 2016 - the 2016 team would advance to the National Championship Tournament in Salem, Virginia, where they would finish a program-best third in the nation.
Wilson’s Profs added to the program’s championship tradition in 2023 when Rowan captured both the Marietta Regional and the Ashland Super Regional to advance to the National Championship Tournament, where they secured a fifth-place national finish. The team ended the season with a 42-10 record, tying the program record for wins in a single season. Wilson was named NJAC Coach of the Year, earning her ninth conference award as she guided the Profs to the regular season conference title with a 17-1 league record. Wilson and her staff were also named the 2023 ATEC/NFCA Regional Coaching Staff of the Year, and the team ended the year ranked 5th in the final NFCA Division III Top 25 Poll.
In 2022, the Profs captured the program’s 11th NJAC Tournament Championship and made another trip to the NCAA Tournament, posting an overall record of 35-10. She was named NJAC Co-Coach of the Year after she led the team to a 15-3 regular season conference record, winning the regular season NJAC title as well. On May 13, she recorded her 900th career victory during the Profs’ opening game of the Medford Regional with an 8-1 win over Cabrini.
Wilson’s 2021 squad went 27-7 and 17-1 in the NJAC, capturing the regular-season crown and the top seed in the conference tournament. She was named NJAC Coach of the Year and 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.
Mary Murray, Assistant Coach
Mary Murray enters her fourth season on staff with the Profs as the assistant coach and primary pitching coach. She served as a volunteer assistant during the 2021 season.
During her time in Glassboro, the Profs have captured a Super Regional title, a Regional title, an NJAC Tournament title, and three NJAC regular season titles. Rowan’s pitching staff has had three back-to-back-to-back NJAC Pitchers of the Year from 2021-2023 in Emily August and Rylee Lutz, with both pitchers earning NFCA First Team All-Region honors. Lutz was named a Third Team All-American in 2023.
Murray 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) Commonwealth All-Conference 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 an NFCA First Team All-Region selection and was named an All-America Scholar-Athlete. Murray sits in the Arcadia record books for single season and career ERA, wins, shutouts, strikeouts, and innings pitched.
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 twice selected to the Great Britain Under-22 Women’s National Team; in 2019, she competed in the Canada Cup International Softball Championship. She also served as the Team Operations Manager and pitching coach for the Great Britain Under-15 Women’s National Team, where she was a part of the 2022 Under-15 Women’s European Championship staff.
Since 2019, she has also competed throughout Europe for the British club team The Mix. In 2023, The Mix earned the gold medal and were crowned Women’s European Cup Champions in Zagreb, Croatia, earning promotion to the coveted Women’s Premier Cup in 2024. Murray led the tournament with a 0.39 ERA. In 2022 in Turin, Italy, Murray and The Mix placed 4th in the Women’s European Cup. In 2019, The Mix earned a silver medal in the Women’s European Cup in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria.
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, New Jersey, and she volunteers on the leadership team with The Hidden Opponent, a non-profit organization aimed at breaking the stigma of mental health in athletics.
Shilah Minerva, Assistant Coach
Minerva enters her fourth season at her alma mater as an assistant softball coach.
Minerva was the softball team’s starting shortstop for four years (2013-16), finishing her career with a .410 batting average, 222 runs and 116 RBI. Additionally, Minerva collected 42 doubles, 11 triples, 24 home runs and 123 stolen bases, while holding the school’s single-season records for at bats (179), hits (84), and total bases (134) in 2016.
In addition, Minerva has the career marks for games (198), at bats (651), runs (222), and stolen bases (123). During her four years, Rowan compiled a 158-40 won-lost record, playing in the NCAA Regional Tournament four times and winning two conference titles (2014, 2016). The Profs advanced to the NCAA Super Regional twice (2014, 2016), and the 2016 NCAA National Championship Tournament.
Minerva earned First Team All-America honors as a junior and senior; she was also a four-time New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) First Team All-Conference selection. She was a three-time NJAC Player of the Year (2014, 2015, and 2016) and the conference’s 2013 Rookie of the Year. After her senior campaign, she was honored as the 2016 NJAC Female Athlete of the Year. Minerva received numerous NCAA Regional, Super Regional, and Championship All-Tournament and National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Region honors as well.
The team captain was the 2015 Philadelphia Inquirer Performer of the Year and a member of the Academic All-Area team. She was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-America teams twice and All-District teams three times. Minerva was named to the NJAC All-Academic first and second teams and received All-Academic honorable mention. A Rowan Scholar-Athlete, she was inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society.
Minerva also served as an assistant softball coach at Rutgers-Camden for two seasons (2018-19).
She is a 2017 graduate from Rowan University with a bachelor’s in health and physical education. Minerva also earned a master’s in college athletic administration from Coker University in 2021.
Meg Murzello, Assistant Coach
Megan Murzello enters her third year on the Profs coaching staff as a volunteer assistant in the 2023-24 season after playing four years at Stockton University after transferring from Division I St. Francis University (PA).
During her year at St. Francis, the Red Flash won the 2017 NEC Conference Tournament, earning the conference automatic bid to the Division I NCAA Championship Tournament. They competed in the Tuscon Regional, hosted by the University of Arizona.
In her time at Stockton, Murzello started every game of her career, splitting time between outfield, shortstop, and catching. She sits third in the Stockton record books for runs (94) and steals (60), and she led the NJAC in 2021 in stolen bases (19). She was a two-time All-NJAC selection and two-time NFCA All-Region honoree. In 2019, Murzello was one of the 50 players named to the Schutt Sports/NFCA Division III National Player of the Year Watchlist.
Academically, Murzello was a two-time NJAC All-Academic selection and twice named NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete. She was named a Stockton Scholar-Athlete all four years of her career. In 2019, Murzello was honored as the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar National Sport winner for softball, making history as the first Stockton student-athlete to achieve this honor. In 2020, she was named an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar. The same year, Murzello was selected as Stockton’s NJAIAW Women of the Year. She was also a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, as well as the National Society of Leadership and Success at Stockton.
Murzello graduated magna cum laude with her BSN from Stockton in 2020. She earned her BS in Health Science in 2021. She is currently an RN in the emergency room at Jefferson Hospital.
Ann Dailey, Assistant Coach
Ann Dailey enters her sixth season as an assistant softball coach at Rowan University. Last year, she helped the Profs secure a fifth-place national finish at the NCAA Division III Softball Championship in Marshall, Texas. She was also on staff with the Profs during the 2018 season, which resulted in a seventh-place national finish at the NCAA Division III Softball Championship in Oklahoma City.
Previously, Dailey was an assistant coach at Clearview Regional High School from 2010-17. She helped lead the Pioneers to the South Jersey Group IV playoffs in all eight years. Dailey also has over 25 years of experience as an instructor at various softball camps and as a private coach.
Dailey played at Rider University from 1990-93 and is a member of the school’s 100-hit club. The Broncs had an overall record of 111-57 during her career and won the 1990 East Coast Conference Championship. Rider also captured the 1991 Eastern College Athletic Conference title.
A product of Cherokee High School, Dailey earned All-State second team honors in 1988 and also received All-South Jersey and All-Conference accolades while helping lead the Chiefs to the 1988 Group IV state crown.
Dailey graduated from Rider in 1993 with a degree in sociology and a minor in social work. She earned her master’s in counseling and human relations from Villanova University in 2005.
