Dawn Stearns
| Title: | Head Softball Coach |
| Phone: | 203-576-4736 |
| Email: | dstearns@bridgeport.edu |
University of Bridgeport Director of Athletics Jay Moran
announced in early September 2009 that Dawn Stearns has
joined the Department of Athletics staff as the head coach of the
Purple Knights’ softball program. Stearns came to UB
from Mitchell College in New London, CT where she has served as
Assistant Head Coach since 2007. Dawn has also been the
assistant varsity softball coach at Daniel Hand High School in
Madison, CT since 2004. The 2012 season will be her third in the
Purple Knights' dugout, and she enters the year coming off a
campaign in which UB more than doubled its win total from 2009.
Said Moran, “Coach Stearns is a great fit for our softball
program here at the University of Bridgeport. Her knowledge of
the sport is impeccable and having worked with travel teams and
camps throughout Connecticut and the entire Northeast region, her
many contacts will aid our recruiting of quality
student-athletes."
Along with her intercollegiate and high school coaching experience, Dawn has also been the head coach of the Shoreline Sting and Outlaws travel teams since 2003, directing the 12-U, 14-U and 16-U squads.
A 1989 graduate of Gettysburg College with a B.A. in Business and Economics, Stearns was a four-year starter at catcher and an All-Middle Atlantic Conference selection for the Bullets.
