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Marissa Young, the Blue Devils’ softball coach, is dealing with a family health emergency as doctors determined her husband, James Lamar, needs heart and kidney transplants.
Overall. 289–210 (.579) Accomplishments and honors. Awards. Big Ten Pitcher of the Year ( 2002) Big Ten Player of the Year ( 2003) [1] Marissa Veronica Young (born August 30, 1981) [2] is an American softball coach who is the current head softball coach at Duke University, a position she has held since 2016.
Duke Blue Devils. The Duke Blue Devils softball program joined the Atlantic Coast Conference as a Division I varsity program in 2017. In July 2015, former Big Ten Player of the Year Marissa Young was named as Duke University 's first head softball coach. Young spent the previous two years as an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina.
Things didn’t come easy at Duke in the early going with a program starting from scratch for the 2018 season. The Blue Devils went 29-27 her first year and dropped to 25-31 her second year.
Duke head coach Marissa Young’s resume includes a lot of firsts. First Blue Devil softball coach. The program’s first ACC Coach of the Year.
The Duke community, and the greater softball community, has responded to the family’s health emergency with a GoFundMe initiative that’s raised $14,838 as of Friday. Young and Lamar are the ...
No. 10 seed Duke fell to No. 14 seed Alabama, 2-1, and ended its softball season in an elimination game on Friday night. Catcher Kelly Torres, her face splotchy from tears, said not to confuse the ...
[2] [8] Her winning percentage of .802 ranks the highest of Division I college softball coaches with at least 1,000 career wins. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] In 1999, the University of Oklahoma won its third Big 12 Conference championship in five years at Oklahoma, but financial difficulties nearly ended her tenure following the 1999 season.