Cornell University Women's Softball

Farlow The Jan Rock Zubrow '77 Head Coach of Softball Former Cornell softball standout Julie Farlow was elevated to the Big Red's The Jan Rock Zubrow '77 Head Coach of Softball in May of 2015 after serving as assistant and associate head coach since 2002. She took over after longtime head coach Dick Blood retired in the spring of 2015. Farlow played an instrumental role in every facet of the program, including recruiting and scheduling, during her time as an assistant coach to Blood, the all-time winningest softball coach in Ivy League history.. During her time on East Hill as an assistant coach, Farlow helped make Cornell softball a power in the Ivy League. The Big Red posted a 396-236-2 overall record and a 155-78 mark in Ivy play with three NCAA tournament appearances and Ivy League titles and four South Division crowns. Those teams posted four of the top five and seven of the top 10 team batting averages in school history, the top nine fielding percentages and three of the programs four 40-win seasons. An excellent recruiter and development coach, Farlow has assisted in the development of 34 first-team All-Ivy selections, 15 first-team NFCA all-region picks, four Ivy League Players of the Year and one NFCA All-American. Farlow was a two-time All-Ivy second-team selection during her career as a second baseman at Cornell and was a member of the 1997 ECAC championship team. In 1996, she posted a .423 batting average to become the first Cornellian to bat over .400 for a season. Her .375 career batting average and .419 on base percentage rank her at the top of both categories. She is 11th in career runs and is 10th all-time in hits with 128. She was inducted into the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012. Farlow graduated from Cornell in 1997 with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering and is currently a licensed engineer in New York state. Upon graduating from Cornell, she worked as a traffic engineer for the Sear Brown Group in Rochester, N.Y. She competed in the Empire State Games in 1997 and was a shortstop for the Adirondack Ice women's fast pitch team the same year. Prior to her stint as an assistant at Cornell, Farlow was a part-time assistant coach at the University of Rochester for four seasons. At Rochester, Farlow assisted with all aspects of team development and was also involved with recruiting and player evaluation. A native of Albany, N.Y., Farlow is a graduate of the Academy of the Holy Names, where she lettered in basketball, softball and volleyball. Farlow and her husband, Tom, reside in Ithaca. * updated June 2016