Eastern University Women's Softball

Terri Adams enters her sixth year with Eastern Softball for 2024-2025. Adam's teams have qualified for the MAC Commonwealth Tournament in each of the four years since CoVID cut short her opening year with the Eagles. Her 2024 set a program record for wins with a 30-8 mark, winning the first championship in program history and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time. Won MAC Commonwealth Coach of the Year and alongside her peers, earned ATEC/NFCA Regional Coaching Staff of the Year honors. In each of her seasons, the Eagles have added high-impact talent and increased their winning percentage. Danika Barthol earned Player and Rookie of the Year honors after putting together one of the best pitching seasons in program history. She finished the year with a 16-4 record and 154 strikeouts, the second-most in a single season in program history. Mackenzie Laub earned MAC Commonwealth Rookie of the Year honors in 2023. In three seasons, Jania Long has won 25 games and driven in 82 runs with 16 homers. The 2023 squad recorded a doubleheader sweep over Centennial Conference Champion Swarthmore College in its slate of wins. She arrived at Eastern in 2019 with successful experience in both collegiate and club coaching. Adams was an accomplished pitcher at Kutztown. After stints as an assistant at her alma matter and at DeSales University (which was Allentown College at that point), Adams broke into the Division I ranks as an assistant at Temple University. The Owls won 30 games and the Atlantic 10 Championship in 2004. She moved to Fordham University as an assistant. That squad won 37 games and reached the Atlantic 10 Championships in 2006. After one year in the Bronx, Adams returned to Philadelphia to take over a Saint Joseph's program that won four Atlantic 10 contests the year before. In 2008, the Hawks won 11 league games and won a game in the Atlantic 10 Tournament. Her 2013 group won 37 games and went 17-5 in conference to earn the regular season title. She earned Coach of the Year honors. In her ten years at SJU, she won 248 games and appeared in eight conference tournaments. She had 15 players earn NFCA All-Region honors and 27 All-Atlantic 10 honors. After working at Saint Joseph's, Adams was involved in competitive club softball and private instruction in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She has experience with professional softball as both a player, coach, and director of player personnel. She and her husband Gerry live in Drexel Hill, Pa. 6/9/23

After the first championship for softball, Coach Gerry Mauro is part of the ATEC/NFCA Regional Coaching Staffs of the Year.  Mauro came to Eastern with an impressive resume of coaching and training high-level players and teams throughout the United States and beyond. Mauro has worked at Villanova, Saint Joseph's, and with the Philadelphia Force of the National Pro Fastpitch League. He began coaching in Southern California and is still active in club fastpitch in the area. 

Coach Lesher joins the Eastern staff as an assistant for the 2020-21 season. He has over 18 years of experience coaching youth athletics, and fifteen years with high-level fastpitch softball. As an assistant coach with Valley Forge Patriots 18U Gold team, he has been responsible for practice planning, skills instruction and player development. On the heels of a championship season, Lesher is part of the ATEC/NFCA Regional Coaching Staffs of the Year. He is married to Natalie, and they reside in Mohrsville, Pennsylvania.  They have two children Joshua and Paige. Joshua is currently a student at Penn State University. Paige played her collegiate softball at Moravian College where she was the 2019 Landmark conference pitcher of the year and was nominated to the NFCA Atlantic All Region Team. She holds records at Moravian for career WP and top ten for career ERA. Coach Lesher holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. Over the course of his 30 year career he has held various technology development positions including Principal Engineer, Technical Manager, Engineering Manager, and Engineering Director. He is currently helping to lead a corporate technical leadership development program at Northrop Grumman Corporation.