Courtesy of Robert Morris Athletics
Moon Township, Pa. – Robert Morris University head softball coach Craig Coleman announced Wednesday the hiring of Keri Meyer as an assistant coach.
Meyer, a former standout on the diamond for the Colonials, brings collegiate head coaching experience as well as prior involvement coaching in the Northeast Conference to the RMU program.
“Bringing back Keri Meyer to RMU as an assistant coach is a great step forward for our program,” Coleman said. “Not only was she a great player and also a RMU Hall of Famer, but she now has years of coaching experience, including two as a head coach. She’ll be a huge asset to us going forward.”
Meyer most recently served as the head coach at Monroe College where she helped the Mustangs post a 10-win improvement from her inaugural season to her second year at the helm in 2014. Her other prior collegiate coaching roles include being an assistant for two seasons at Fairleigh Dickinson and also spending one season after graduation assisting with Robert Morris. Meyer has also spent multiple years as a hitting and fielding instructor at ProSwing of Port Chester Athletic Training Facility, a center that specializes in training youths in softball and baseball.
Meyer is one of the most accomplished players in RMU history. She led the team to the 2005 NCAA Tournament by batting .418, a single-season school record that still stands, while posting a league-leading .472 on-base percentage and a .620 SLG%. She was named NEC Player of the Year that season and also claimed first team all-region honors for her remarkable contributions. Meyer was also the toughest player to strike out in Division I in 2005 and holds the best single-season at bat-to-strikeout ratio of any Division I player in the past decade.
Meyer helped the Colonials to a pair of NEC regular-season titles in her four years and was a three-time All-NEC honoree. She remains among the career top 10 in a variety of offensive categories at Robert Morris including batting average (.342), hits (165), RBI (77), doubles (29) and walks (46). Meyer was inducted into the RMU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012.
A native of nearby Carnegie, Pa., Meyer earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Robert Morris in 2006. She proceeded to earn a Master of Administrative Science degree from Fairleigh Dickinson in 2009.
