Meet the Coach
Rachael Powers
Head Coach
Rachael Powers is in her second season as head softball coach of the Lyons for the 2010 campaign. An assistant on the 2008 staff and a former all-region Wheaton player, Powers returned to her alma mater in 2008 to help the Lyons go 29-14 overall and place second in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) standings at 12-4.
Previously, Powers helped bring unprecedented success to Framingham State College during four years as an assistant coach. She spent 2004-07 guiding the Rams to 74 wins, including 34 in Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference (MASCAC) play, as both figures were the highest during any four-year period in program history to that point. Including tournament action, Framingham State was 42-27 against league foes with Powers as a coach.
The Rams won the MASCAC Tournament for the first time in 2007, advancing to their initial NCAA Tournament. Powers helped Framingham State match the program's single-season wins record (21) in both 2006 and 2007 while pushing the squad to the championship round of the MASCAC Tournament in 2004, 2006 and 2007.
A three-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-New England and two-time New England Intercollegiate Softball Coaches Association (NEISCA) all-region selection, Powers helped the Lyons go 143-38-1 overall and 57-7 in NEWMAC play. Wheaton at least shared the regular season league crown all four of her years, winning three conference tournament titles to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. Powers' Blue and White squad advanced to the College World Series in 2001, as the team came in third nationally and she was named all-tournament.
A two-time captain, Powers was Wheaton's starting third baseman and center fielder during different points in her career. Upon graduating, she ranked among the top 10 in program history in 13 major offensive career categories, including hits, home runs, batting average, runs batted in and stolen bases. Powers batted .366 in 172 games, finishing with 199 hits, 117 RBI, 38 doubles and 15 homers. The United States history major, who also played soccer her freshman year, graduated in 2003.
The Powers File
| Year | Overall | League | Highlight(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 15-23 | 6-10 | |
| Totals | 15-23 | 6-10 | 1 Season |
Jill D'Arcy
Assistant Coach
A 2001 All-American at Wheaton, Jill D'Arcy returns for her third year as an assistant and for a second season in her second stint on the staff.
D'Arcy also assisted the program in 2004, when the Lyons tied for fifth at the NCAA Tournament College World Series after winning New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season and tournament titles. D'Arcy was the varsity assistant coach at nearby Walpole High School in 2005 and 2006 after serving as the junior varsity head coach in 2002 and 2003.
As a player, D'Arcy was a two-time captain and a four-year starter at second base for Wheaton, being named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America first team as a senior in 2001 and landing on the NFCA and New England Intercollegiate Softball Coaches Association (NEISCA) All-New England first team three times each. She also twice earned Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) honors and was tabbed a NEWMAC All-Conference selection in 1999.
During her senior year, D'Arcy helped the Lyons take third at the NCAA College World Series after winning the second NEWMAC Tournament title of her career. She graduated among the top 10 in program history in 15 career and season categories, including holding the records for career and season sacrifice hits. D'Arcy left as one of seven Wheaton players to ever record 200 hits and finished out her 185-game career just five stolen bases shy of 100.
D'Arcy graduated from Wheaton with a degree in psychology before earning a master's degree from Bridgewater State College in special education with a concentration in moderate special needs in 2006.
Erin Fuoroli
Assistant Coach
An experienced instructor and a former all-conference pitcher, Erin Fuoroli joins the Wheaton coaching staff for the 2010 season.
Fuoroli, who played four seasons for regional power Keene State College before graduating in 2007, went 36-13 in the circle with a 1.78 earned run average, earning Little East Conference (LEC) all-league honors as a junior and senior. While also appearing in the outfield, Fuoroli pushed the Owls to a 117-43 record in her career with NCAA Tournament appearances during her sophomore and senior seasons. She served as a captain as a senior.
Fuoroli has been a pitching and hitting instructor at Uxbridge-based Planet Fastpitch since early 2008 while giving lessons at Extra Innings in her hometown of Warwick, Rhode Island, since 2007. The former hurler was an assistant coach at her alma mater in fall 2007, instructed at winter clinics at Keene State from 2003-07 and worked camps at the University of Massachusetts for three years. Fuoroli previously provided pitching lessons at Extra Innings in Walpole, New Hampshire, and worked youth basketball clinics for six summers at Hendricken High School in her hometown.
A three-year member of the Keene State Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), Fuoroli earned a National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) All-America honor in 2007. During the summers of 2006 and 2007, Fuoroli competed for USA Athletes International for softball series in Holland and Peru. The cum laude graduate earned a general science degree from Keene State with a certification in secondary education and currently teaches at Wamsutta Middle School in Attleboro.
Bob Roscoe
Assistant Coach
As the longest-tenured active part-time coach at Wheaton, Bob Roscoe enters his 15th season in the Lyon softball dugout.
Roscoe's initial year coaching softball at Wheaton was 1996, but by then he was midway through a 14-year stint with the women's volleyball program. He was an assistant volleyball coach from 1989-2001 before serving as a co-head coach in 2002, helping the Lyons to a 15-16 mark. During Roscoe's tenure with the softball squad, the Lyons have qualified for seven NCAA Tournaments, including three trips to the College World Series.
In 2003 and 2004, Roscoe was an assistant women's volleyball coach at Salve Regina University, and he has been on the Bridgewater State College staff since 2005, including being elevated to head coach in 2008. While coaching with the Bears, Bridgewater State has qualified for four NCAA Tournaments and won four Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference (MASCAC) tournament titles and at least a share of three regular season crowns.
Roscoe also coached girls' volleyball in the Junior Olympics for six years and has coached Massachusetts youths with the Brockton Juniors, the Coastal Volleyball Club and the Bay State Juniors.
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