Stockton University Women's Softball

Updated 8/19/25 Mavreen Hering is in her 11th year as the Stockton head coach. Hering has compiled a 208-159-1 record (.567 winning percentage) on the Osprey bench. Hering’s Osprey teams have won at least 22 games in seven of her nine full seasons at Stockton. Last year, Hering guided the Ospreys to a 26-15 record for the program’s highest win total since 2017. Stockton earned the No. 4 seed in the NJAC tournament for the third straight year. Hering reached the 200-win mark with an 8-0 shutout of Rutgers-Camden on April 15, 2025. She led the 2024 squad to a 24-17 mark in 2024, winning at least 24 games for the fifth time in her first seven full seasons (excluding 2020-21-COVID). Hering guided Stockton to a 19-19 record while facing the third-toughest schedule in NCAA Division III in 2023. The Ospreys went 24-18 in 2022, with nine of the victories coming in NJAC play. Hering led Stockton to 10 wins in the COVID-shortened 2021 season, with the Ospreys entering the NJAC Tournament as the No. 6 seed and sweeping No. 3 seed Montclair State to advance to the semifinals. Due to COVID-19, the 2020 campaign was abbreviated to just one doubleheader. In 2019, Hering led Stockton to a 22-20 overall record with eight wins in the NJAC. She reached the 100-win milestone with a 7-4 victory over Rutgers Camden on April 16, 2019. Hering’s 2018 team went 24-17 and won its NJAC playoff opener. Hering coached her 2017 squad to a 26-21-1 record while playing 22 games against NCAA Tournament qualifiers. The Ospreys finished as the NJAC tournament runner-up for just the second time in school history and also were the ECAC tourney runner-up.  In 2016, Hering’s first season as a college head coach, she helmed Stockton to a 32-13 mark that was just one win shy of the school record for victories and was voted NJAC Coach of the Year. Stockton entered the NCAA regional rankings for the first time ever, reaching as high as fourth in the East Region. The team finished second in the NJAC standings, its highest finish ever, and nearly earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament.  Hering was named Stockton head coach in September 2015 after spending one year as a volunteer assistant at Rowan. She helped the 2015 Profs to a 38-8 record, first place in the NJAC regular season standings and an NCAA Tournament berth. Rowan was the runner-up in the NCAA regional and NJAC tournament that year as well.     Prior to her stint at Rowan, Hering was the head coach at Camden Catholic High School for seven years, compiling a 102-44 record and winning six consecutive Olympic National Conference championships. Hering also brings coaching experience from the E.C. Mavericks, Marlton Thunder and Newtown Rock Gold travel teams.  As a player, Hering was on the Rowan squad for two seasons (1999-2000) after one year apiece at Burlington County College and Camden County College. She batted .381 with a team-high 14 doubles for the Profs in 2000. Hering also played goalkeeper for the Rowan women’s lacrosse team for two seasons. She possesses a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Rowan.

Updated 8/19/25 Abby Mace is in her second year on the Stockton softball coaching staff following an astonishing career as a player at Salisbury University during which she was a four-time NFCA First Team All-American. Mace also was a four-time NFCA All-Region selection and three-time Coast to Coast Conference Player of the Year. Mace collected three College Sports Communicators Academic All-America honors, highlighted by a First Team nod in 2024. She also was chosen Coast to Coast Conference Female Athlete of the Year and ECAC Player of the Year in 2024. Mace batted .425 with 252 hits and 194 RBI plus school records of 247 runs, 58 doubles and 65 home runs in 199 career games at Salisbury. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and master’s degree in social work from Salisbury.