Contact Coach Fuduric
E-mail: jfuduric@po-box.esu.edu
Phone: (570) 422-3122

Jill Fuduric is in her third year as the head softball coach at East Stroudsburg University after leading the Warriors to two consecutive appearances in the PSAC Tournament for just the second time in school history.

ESU won five of its last eight regular season games to qualify for the postseason last spring. The Warriors blanked California 9-0 in the first round of the PSAC Tournament before falling 3-0 to Kutztown and 1-0 to Bloomsburg.

The Warriors set the school record for victories with a 29-28 campaign in 2007 and made their first PSAC Tournament appearance since 1981 after posting a 14-10 conference record. ESU opened its postseason appearance with a 1-0, eight-inning win over Edinboro, then lost 6-1 to No. 1 seed and tournament host Kutztown, and 3-2 to Bloomsburg.

The squad returned to Kutztown the following weekend for the NCAA Division II Mid-Atlantic Regional. The Warriors went 3-2 to finish third in the eight-team bracket, their highest-ever finish in an NCAA event.

ESU, the No. 4 seed, eliminated Kutztown with an 11-10 victory on the third day of the regional in a game that saw the lead change hands four times in the final two innings. Jess Schmoyer drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh and was named to the All-Regional team.

Fuduric also helped shortsop Jen Veronesi and second baseman Shannon Dietrich earn All-PSAC honors. Veronesi was a three-time All-PSAC and two-time All-Region player and set multiple single season and career records in her four years at ESU, including overall marks for hits, home runs, runs batted in, runs scored and stolen bases.

Fuduric came to ESU after spending two seasons as an assistant coach at Lafayette College. The Leopards won 20 games in 2006 and played in the Patriot League Tournament for the first time in six years. Prior to coaching at Lafayette, Fuduric was an assistant for two seasons at the University of Rochester.

She was a four-year starter and letterwinner in her playing career at Allegheny College, where she was a member of two North Coast Athletic Conference championship teams. She was a co-captain her final two seasons and earned first team all-conference honors as a catcher and outfielder as a senior.

Fuduric earned her bachelor's degree in economics from Allegheny and her master's of science in educational leadership with an emphasis in higher education from the University of Rochester.