The Lehigh Mountain Hawks softball team represents Lehigh University in NCAA Division I

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. The team participates in the

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(PL), having joined as a founding member in 1991. From 1977 until 1990, the team was a member of the East Coast Conference. The Mountain Hawks are currently led by head coach Fran Troyan. The team plays its home games at Leadership Park located on the university's campus.

History

Since joining the

in 1991, the Mountain Hawks have had significant success as a program. The team has won 22 regular season titles, 15 PL Conference Tournaments, and has qualified for the NCAA Division I softball tournament 11 times. The program has managed a win in five of their eleven appearances in the NCAA Tournament. In the

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tournament, Lehigh won a program record two games in the tournament, defeating Texas A&M twice, first in the opening round of the tournament and finally in the loser's bracket, eliminating the Aggies. Lehigh was eliminated from the tournament by

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. Lehigh has won several awards during their tenure in the Patriot League. The team has won eight PL Player of the Year awards, doing so in 1995 and 1996 with Kim Miller, 2007 with Kate Marvel, 2008 with Lisa Sweeney, 2010 with Julie Fernandez, 2012 with Jen Colquhoun, and 2013 and 2014 with Morgan Decker. The team has also won eight PL Coach of the Year awards, winning in 1993 with Sue Troyan, and in 1997, 2005, 2007, each year from 2012 to 2014, and 2017 with Fran Troyan.

Coaching history

Roster

Season by season results

Season cut short due to COVID-19 Pandemic

Notes

References

External links

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