Crouch Named Terrier Assistant Softball Coach
September 3, 2004 | Softball
BOSTON - Boston University head softball coach Shawn Rychcik announced that Marcy Crouch will join the Terrier coaching staff as an assistant coach.
Crouch comes to B.U. after five years as the head coach at Santa Clara University, where she was named the Pacific Coast Softball Conference Coach of the Year in 2004 after guiding the Broncos to their second conference championship in the last three years.
"We wanted to find someone that knew pitching and knew college softball," said Rychcik. "I think Marcy exceeded all of our expectations on what we needed here at B.U. She was a standout player and has proven, as a coach, that she can teach and lead her players."
Crouch has experienced success at every level of the game. As a head coach at Santa Clara, she became the program's winningest head coach in just five seasons, directing the club to a team-record 30-win season in 2003, and matching that number of wins in 2004.
As a four-year starting pitcher and three-year captain at Stanford University from 1995-99, she was a four-time All-Pac 10 award winner and a Third Team All-America selection as a junior after batting .307 and recording a 1.35 earned run average. Along with two teammates, it marked the first All-America award for any Cardinal softball player. She finished her pitching career with three perfect games.
Scholastically, she was a three-sport standout at Marina High School. In addition to her efforts in volleyball and soccer, she was twice named Orange County Softball Player of the Year and was named her school's and Orange County's Athlete of the Year.
Crouch joins Rychcik, who was named the Terriers' head coach in early August after two seasons as an assistant coach. She also joins a Terrier team that has won three consecutive America East regular-season titles, and came within six outs of claiming its third straight conference tournament championship last season. The team returns virtually intact, losing only one senior to graduation.
