SUNY Stony Brook University Women's Softball

Mark Anderson was elevated to swimming and diving head coach on a permanent basis in March of 2022. Anderson led the team as the interim head coach during the 2021-22 campaign and has since entered his third season at the helm of the program in 2024-25. This past season, the Seawolves found their most success at the ECAC Championships, earning 16 top five finishes. Sara DiStefano, Natalia Chornomidza, and Mykayla Lavery swept the 1-meter dive competition as DiStefano captured victory in the 3-meter dive. Francesca Baber earned four individual wins, as the team of Michelle Vu, Brenna Mowrey, Alanna DePinto, and Baber claimed first place in the 400-freestyle relay. Under Anderson’s leadership, Stony Brook swimming and diving earned their lone win of the season over Manhattan as DiStefano broke the 1-meter dive program record with a score of 304.45. To close out the season at the CAA’s, DePinto captured the 100-breastroke program record with a time of 1:03.99 and Aili Talcott with the 200-breaststroke program record, logging a time of 2:20.28. Finding success in the pool and in the classroom, the team earned CSCAA Scholar All-America Team honor as Clara Armstrong and Sara Baxter were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.   In 2023-24, the Seawolves earned a pair of regular season victories before a second-place finish at the ECAC Championships. Anderson guided the  Stony Brook squad to a 3-3 overall record on the season. At the CAA Championships, Baxter, Conway, DePinto, and Vu broke the program record in the 400-medley relay. At the conclusion of the season, Armstrong, Baxter, Mary Kate Conway, and Jocelyn Lichwick all earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors as the Seawolves’ squad was selected to the CSCAA Scholar All-America Team. In Anderson's first full season as head coach (2022-23), he led the team to a season-opening victory over Sacred Heart at University Pool. The squad picked up a win in a road meet at Siena before placing sixth in the ECAC Championships. After finishing the year 4-2 overall, Anderson and the Seawolves participated at the program's first CAA Championships as the newest member of the league. Vu posted a standout performance on day three, breaking a 12-year record in the first leg of the 200-freestyle relay. Over the course of Anderson's season as interim head coach in 2021-22, the Seawolves had their fair share of success. The squad picked up their first dual meet win of the season by defeating St. Francis Brooklyn, 178.5-118.5, on November 13. The win marked the first of Anderson’s head coaching career. Anderson guided the Seawolves to a 4-2 record in dual meets, adding victories over Siena, St. Joseph’s (L.I.) and Rider. Stony Brook recorded a standout first-place finish at the Blue Devil Invite at the beginning of December. The Seawolves totaled 626 points and finished in first out of a five-team field. Stony Brook registered eight first-place finishes in the meet and set six meet records in the process.    The Seawolves concluded their season by putting forth a strong showing at the ECAC Championship in Annapolis, Md. Stony Brook recorded a sixth-place finish racking up 243 points as it took part in the 19-team championship meet. The team set four new program records at the meet as Jessica Salmon (100 & 200 breast), Conway (200 fly), and the 400 medley relay squad comprised of Reagan MacDonald, Salmon, Maddy Enda, and Conway etched their names into the record book.   Stony Brook divers DiStefano and Mia Sclar qualified for the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships and competed on the national stage on March 7.    Following the season, Conway was named to the America East All-Academic Team for her work in the classroom and in the pool. Academics continued to be at the forefront of the program, seeing the team post a cumulative 3.25 GPA in the fall 2021 semester. As an assistant in 2020-21, Anderson helped lead the Seawolves to a pair of podium finishes in the 200 free and 400 medley relays at the 2021 America East Championship. Briana Liew, Lara Youssef, and Conway, all freshmen at the time, joined Emma Waechter to earn bronze in the 200 free, while Youssef, Conway and MacDonald, joined Amanda Heinz to earn bronze during the 400 medley relay.   In his first year as an assistant with the Seawolves during the 2019-20 campaign, he made an immediate impact, helping three swimmers earn A final appearances at the America East Championship, including eventual 100 fly champion Michal Liberman. She also broke the school record in the race and ECAC Winter Championship record.   Anderson is also the head coach at Three Village Swim Club in East Setauket, N.Y., where he has worked since 2012. Anderson was also a coach at The University of Michigan’s Wolverine Swim camp, learning from influential coaches such as Bob Bowman, Jon Urbanchek, Mike Bottom, Mark Hill and Jim Richardson.   Anderson swam collegiately for the Seawolves under coaches Dave Alexander and Chris Brandenberger, earning his degree in Environmental Health and Safety in 2013.

Bryant Year-By-Year Records Megan T. Bryant was named Stony Brook's head softball coach in 2001. A three-time America East Coach of the Year (2009, 2012 & 2014), Bryant is the winningest manager in program history with 691 career victories in her 25 years at the helm of the Seawolves. Across her full 38-year coaching career she has totaled 1035 victories. Under Bryant, Stony Brook has finished with 30 wins or more 11 times. On April 17, 2024, Bryant reached a major milestone as she earned the 1,000th win of her head coaching career in a doubleheader sweep of Fairleigh Dickinson. The victory was No. 656 at Stony Brook in her 24th season with the program. Prior to Stony Brook, Bryant won 281 games at Drake and 63 at Stetson. The 2025 season saw the Seawolves post a 25-25 overall record and an 18-9 conference mark to enter the CAA tournament as the No. 5 seed. The Seawolves went on to fall to No. 4 Campbell and No. 6 Hofstra to end their time in the tournament. Under Bryant's leadership, five Seawolves would take home All-CAA honors in 2025: Kyra McFarland (First Team), Alyssa Costello (First Team), Emily Reinstein (Second Team), Emma Scheitinger (Second Team), and Nicole Allen (All-Rookie). Costello also took home NFCA Northeast All-Region First Team honors for the second time in her career. Under Bryant's guidance, the Seawolves took a major step up in year two as a member of the CAA in 2024. The Seawolves won 35 games, the second-most in a single season in program history, earning the No. 3 seed in the CAA Championship. Stony Brook toppled Hofstra to advance before falling to Delaware and Hofstra and being eliminated from the tournament. During the season, the Seawolves won a program record 18 straight games from March 29 to April 26, which stood as the longest winning streak in the nation at that time. Stony Brook closed out the regular season with a program record 18 road wins as well. The Seawolves had three players collect All-CAA honors in 2024: Kyra McFarland (First Team), Alyssa Costello (Second Team) and Catherine Anne Kupinski (Second Team). Kupinski and McFarland also earned NFCA All-Region distinction.  In year one as a member of the CAA, Bryant guided the Seawolves to a 29-27 record, with a 10-13 mark in league play. Stony Brook earned the No. 7 seed in the 2023 CAA Championship, taking victories over No. 1 Delaware, No. 2 UNCW, No. 4 Elon and No. 6 Charleston. Under Bryant's tutelage, Costello was selected to the All-Conference First Team, CAA Softball All-Tournament Team, NFCA Division I All-Region Team, earned multiple CAA Player of the Week recognitions, and was named the SUNY Scholar-Athlete of the Year. In 2022, the Seawolves finished with a final record of 31-16 (.660), the program's most wins since the 2012 season when the team finished 36-17-1 (.676). Corinne Badger became the first student-athlete in program history to claim the National Player of the Week honor after a historic weekend at the FIU Tournament (Feb. 25-27). Dawn Bodrug and Badger were named to the NFCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region Team. Bodrug recorded four no-hitters, tossed 22 complete games, and 10 shutouts. After having their season cut short in 2020, Stony Brook returned to the field in 2021 and got off to a hot start, sweeping the Winthrop Kickoff Tournament to take hold of a 4-0 record. Bryant led the Seawolves back to the conference tournament and to the finals after taking down No. 2 seeded UAlbany. Unfortunately, the rematch of the 2019 AE Championships did not fall in favor of Stony Brook, as UMBC bested the Seawolves 1-0 in the finals. Bodrug recorded the season's only no-hitter and second of her career against Binghamton on March 27. Stony Brook got off to its best start in 29 years in 2020, winning its first seven games en route to a 10-4 record. Though the season was cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Seawolves broke onto the national stage, becoming the last unbeaten team in the country. The Seawolves led the America East in ERA (1.76), strikeouts (105), fielding percentage (0.995) and more. In the shortened season, JUCO transfer Dawn Bodrug tossed the program's first perfect game in eight years and Jourdin Hering hit for the cycle. In 2019, Bryant led the Seawolves back to the conference tournament, besting UMass Lowell, 2-1 before falling in the finals to UMBC. The softball program finished with a final record of 32-19, its best record since 2014. It was the program's 11th winning campaign in its last 13 years. The Seawolves had their third America East Player of the Year in the past five seasons in junior Marissa Rahrich. The P/1B was named to the NFCA All-Region team and was a First Team All-Conference selection for the second year in a row. Bryant recorded her 500th career win with the Seawolves on May 9, 2018, guiding the program past UMBC, 5-1, in the America East Championships. She recorded her 800th career victory as a collegiate head coach on May 6, 2016 with an 8-0 win over in-state rival Albany, making her the 25th coach in NCAA Division 1 history to surpass the 800-win plateau. Stony Brook went 25-22 (10-7 AE) in 2018, going 2-2 in conference postseason play. Under Bryant, four Seawolves earned America East All-Conference awards in 2018: Melissa Rahrich - America East Player of the Year/First Team, Irene Rivera - First Team, Nicole McCarvill - Second Team/All-Rookie, Katelyn Corr - All-Academic. Rahrich also became the 12th player in program history to earn an NFCA All-Region selection. Under Bryant's leadership, the program has tallied a winning conference record in 12 of the last 13 seasons. Bryant guided the Seawolves to a winning America East record in 16 of their 20 years in the conference.  She made school history in 2008 when she led the Seawolves to their first-ever America East Championship and into the NCAA Tournament. In the opening round at the Tempe Regional, Stony Brook faced the eventual national champion, Arizona State, and gave the Sun Devils all they could handle in a 2-0 defeat. Bryant again led the team to the NCAA Tournament in 2013 after an improbable run through the America East Tournament. The Seawolves lost their opening game of the competition, before winning four straight elimination games, including two against top-seed Albany to clinch the title. Stony Brook became just the second team in America East Tournament history to win the championship after losing its first game. After winning the title, Stony Brook was sent to the Columbia Regional where it faced No. 6 overall seed Missouri and Oregon State. In 2009, Bryant coached the Seawolves to the school's first America East regular season title and a program-best 36 wins. For her efforts, Bryant was named the 2009 America East Coach of the Year. She has since gone on to receive the award in 2012 after another 36-win campaign and in 2014 after guiding the Seawolves to 34 wins and a regular-season crown. They also won the 2015 regular-season title under her leadership. Prior to Stony Brook, Bryant served as the head coach at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1988-99. Before Bryant's arrival, the Bulldogs had endured five straight losing seasons and three straight last-place finishes in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). After a 13-44 finish her first season, Bryant led Drake to a 33-24 overall record and a 10-6 mark in the MVC in 1990, earning her MVC Coach of the Year accolades. In 1993, just four years after her arrival, Drake won both the MVC regular season and tournament titles while compiling a 35-16 record (13-3 MVC), the most wins in a season in school history. Bryant once again received MVC Coach of the Year honors. In 1994, Drake repeated as MVC Tournament champions and obtained a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs registered winning records six times and finished in the top four in the MVC five times in the last eight seasons of Bryant’s tenure. Bryant began her college coaching career at Stetson University in Deland, Fla., where she compiled a 63-40 record as head coach from 1985-87. Bryant inherited a program that had begun just one season before her arrival. In her first season she led Stetson to the New South Women's Athletic Conference championship in 1986, receiving NSWAC Coach of the Year honors. Stetson repeated as NSWAC champions in 1987.  Bryant has also served as an assistant coach at both Furman University in Greenville, S.C., in 1988 and at St. John's University. Before coaching at the collegiate level, Bryant spent four years as a physical education instructor and head coach at Lakeland High School in Shrub Oak, N.Y., from 1981-85. In addition to her coaching experience, Bryant has also served on two NCAA Certification Review Equity Subcommittees and as a member of the NCAA Division I Softball Midwest Region Committee. Bryant currently serves as the head coach representative on Stony Brook University's Intercollegiate Athletics Board and was previously involved with the USAToday/NFCA Top 25 Coaches Poll. Bryant graduated from the University of Bridgeport in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in physical education, K-12. She competed in both volleyball and softball at Bridgeport. Megan Bryant Year-By-Year Year Team Overall Record Win Pct. Conf. Record (Finish) Post Season 1986        Stetson 27-12-0 .692 NSWAC Tourn. Champions 1987 Stetson 36-28-0 .563 10-3 (1st) NSWAC Tourn. Champions 1989 Drake 13-44-0 .228 0-17-0 (10th) 1990 Drake 33-24-0 .579 10-6 (5th) 1991 Drake 22-32-0 .407 3-9-0 (9th) 1992 Drake 24-17-0 .585 9-6-0 (3rd) 1993 Drake 35-16-0 .686 13-3 (1st) NIT Tournament 1994 Drake 32-34-0 .485 6-8-0 (7th) NCAA Tournament 1995 Drake 27-25-0 .519 13-7-0 (3rd) 1996 Drake 31-14-0 .689 14-5-0 (2nd) 1997 Drake 30-22-0 .577 9-7-0 (4th) 1998 Drake 19-24-0 .442 8-10-0 (7th) 1999 Drake 16-25-1 .393 5-11-1 (9th) 2001 Stony Brook 21-23-0 .477 2002 Stony Brook 25-27-0 .481 10-14-0 (6th) 2003 Stony Brook 25-33-0 .431 12-10-0 (4th) America East Championship 2004 Stony Brook 30-33-0 .476 13-7-0 (3rd) America East Championship 2005 Stony Brook 22-35-0 .386 10-10-0 (2nd) America East Championship 2006 Stony Brook 25-25-0 .500 10-10-0 (5th) 2007 Stony Brook 28-20-0 .583 11-9-0 (5th) 2008 Stony Brook 33-23-1 .588 13-8-0 (3rd) NCAA Tournament 2009 Stony Brook 36-14-0 .720 15-5-0 (1st) America East Championship 2010 Stony Brook 32-21-1 .602 10-7-0 (3rd) America East Championship 2011 Stony Brook 20-29-0 .408 5-13-0 (6th) 2012 Stony Brook 36-17-1 .676 14-3-1 (2nd) America East Championship 2013 Stony Brook 35-25-0 .583 10-8-0 (4th) NCAA Tournament 2014 Stony Brook 34-18-0 .653 15-2-0 (1st) America East Championship 2015 Stony Brook 30-17-0 .638 14-2-0 (1st) America East Championship 2016 Stony Brook 26-24-2 .519 11-6-0 (3rd) America East Championship 2017 Stony Brook 18-29-0 .382 9-7-0 (4th) America East Championship 2018 Stony Brook 25-22-0 .532 10-7-0 (3rd) America East Championship 2019 Stony Brook  32-19-0 .627 11-7-0 (3rd) America East Championship 2020        Stony Brook     10-4-0     .714 N/A *Season shortened (COVID-19) 2021 Stony Brook 27-16-0 .628 10-6-0 (3rd) America East Championship 2022 Stony Brook 31-16-0 .660 10-6-0 (2nd) 2023 Stony Brook 29-27-0 .518 10-13-0 (7th) CAA Championship 2024 Stony Brook 35-17-0 .704 19-8-0 (3rd) CAA Championship 2025 Stony Brook 25-25-0 .500 18-9-0 (5th) CAA Championship Total Stony Brook (25) 691-561-5 .552 277-193-1 18 Postseason App. Total Career (38) 1035-868-9 .544 377-285-1 22 Postseason App.    

Bryant is the winningest manager in program history with 458 victories with the Seawolves. Bryant recorded her 800th career victory on May 6, 2016 with an 8-0 win over in-state rival Albany, making her the 25th coach in NCAA Division-I history to surpass the 800-win plateau. Bryant made school history in 2008 when she led the Seawolves to their first-ever America East Championship and into the NCAA Tournament. In the opening round at the Tempe Regional, Stony Brook faced the eventual national champion, Arizona State, and gave the Sun Devils all they could handle in a 2-0 defeat. Bryant again led the team to the NCAA Tournament in 2013 after an improbable run through the America East Tournament. The Seawolves lost their opening game of the competition, before winning four straight elimination games, including two against top-seed Albany to clinch the title. Stony Brook became just the second team in America East Tournament history to win the championship after losing its first game. After winning the title, Stony Brook was sent to the Columbia Regional where it faced No. 6 overall seed Missouri and Oregon State. In 2009, Bryant coached the Seawolves to the school's first America East regular season title and a program-best 36 wins. For her efforts, Bryant was named the 2009 America East Coach of the Year. She has since gone on to receive the award in 2012 after another 36-win campaign and in 2014 after guiding the Seawolves to 34 wins and a regular-season crown They also won the 2015 regular-season title under her leadership. During her tenure, Bryant's players have received numerous national and conference accolades. She has coached 11 NFCA All-Region players (most recently Bria Green and Shayla Giosia in 2015), 33 different All-America East selections, 14 America East All-Rookie team players, three America East Pitcher of the Year recipients (Allison Cukrov in 2012 & 2014) and three Stony Brook Female Athletes of the Year. As successful as Bryant's teams have been on the diamond, they have enjoyed equal success in the classroom. Her teams traditionally have one of the highest GPA's among Stony Brook's female teams, and since 2007 have placed 11 players on the America East All-Academic team, including Cukrov in 2015. Prior to Stony Brook, Bryant served as the head coach at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1988-99. Before Bryant's arrival, the Bulldogs had endured five straight losing seasons and three straight last-place finishes in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). After a 13-44 finish her first season, Bryant led Drake to a 33-24 record, 10-6 in the MVC, in 1990, which earned her MVC Coach of the Year accolades. In 1993, just four years after her arrival, Drake won both the MVC regular season and tournament titles while compiling a 35-16 record (13-3 MVC), the most wins in a season in school history. Bryant once again received MVC Coach of the Year honors. In 1994, Drake repeated as MVC Tournament champions and obtained a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs registered winning records six times and finished in the top four in the MVC five times in the last eight seasons Bryant was at the helm. Bryant began her college coaching career at Stetson University in Deland, Fla., where she compiled a 63-40 record as head coach from 1985-87. Bryant inherited a program that had begun just the season before her arrival, and in her first season led Stetson to the New South Athletic Conference championship in 1986, receiving NSAC Coach of the Year honors. Stetson repeated as NSAC champions in 1987. Bryant has also served as an assistant coach at both Furman University in Greenville, S.C., in 1988 and at St. John's University. Bryant also spent four years as a physical education instructor and head coach at Lakeland High School in Shrub Oak, N.Y., from 1981-85. In addition to her coaching expertise, Bryant has also served on two NCAA Certification Review Equity Subcommittees and as a member of the NCAA Division I Softball Midwest Region Committee from 1994-95.  Bryant graduated from the University of Bridgeport in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in physical education, K-12. She competed in both volleyball and softball at Bridgeport.

Nicole Bowman joined the Stony Brook softball staff as an assistant coach in July of 2024. In her first season with the staff in 2025, the Seawolves went 25-25 overall and 18-9 in league play to qualify for the CAA tournament for the third consecutive season since joining the conference. Bowman came to Long Island after a two-year coaching stint at Appalachian State. She joined the Mountaineers’ staff for the 2023 season as a volunteer assistant before being elevated to a full-time assistant coach for in 2024. Bowman worked primarily with App State’s outfield and hitters, while assisting with in-game and practice management and video analysis. Additionally, Bowman was tasked with managing gear and apparel, alumni communication, social media management and camp coordination. A former student-athlete, Bowman played three seasons at Rutgers before finishing her playing career at UNC Charlotte. In three seasons as a Scarlet Knight Bowman appeared in 145 games, starting in 140. A career .273 hitter with Rutgers, she totaled 111 hits, 14 home runs, and 81 runs batted in. In her lone season with the 49ers, Bowman started in 47 of her 49 games played, posting a .321 batting average with 42 hits. For her efforts, she was selected to the Conference USA Second Team. Bowman is a native of Downers Grove, Illinois. She played for the Downers Grove South High School Mustangs and was part of three Western Suburban Gold Conference championships and earned All-Conference and All-Area Honorable Mention distinction.

Sabrina Kuchta enters her fourth season as an assistant coach for the Stony Brook softball program in 2026. She joined the Stony Brook softball coaching staff prior to the 2023 season after spending the past six years as a head coach in the Premier Girls Fastpitch organization. In her three seasons with the program, the Seawolves have totaled 89 wins and earned berths in the CAA Championship in its first two seasons as a member of the conference. Kuchta works primarily with the pitching staff, helping the team post an earned run average under four in her first two seasons with the program. Kuchta has held different coaching roles at the club level. Since 2014, she has gained experience as an assistant head coach and a solo head coach of different club teams. She has coached over 50 athletes who committed to play softball at the college level. Kuchta had a standout five-year softball career as a catcher at DePaul University from 2015-19. She was named to the 2015 All-BIG EAST Second Team as a true freshman. She had several career-defining moments, including recording a hit and two runs batted in to secure a BIG East Championship win over St. John’s as a junior in 2017. That sparked a streak of Kuchta and the Blue Demons winning three-straight BIG EAST Championships from 2017 to 2019. Kuchta helped DePaul win three BIG EAST regular season and tournament titles and appeared in three NCAA Tournaments during her career. She was a member of the BIG EAST All-Academic team during all five years of her career. The Darien, Illinois, native earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology, along with her master’s degree in marketing from DePaul.

Tracey Massetti begins her fifth season as an assistant coach on staff at Stony Brook in 2026. Massetti joined Stony Brook's staff as a volunteer coach before the 2022 season and works with the Seawolves' pitchers. She has held previous coaching positions with The Beast 18U Gold Fastpitch (assistant coach), Saint Vincent Ferrer High School (head coach), and Adrenaline 14-16U Girls Fastpitch (assistant coach).   Prior to her coaching career, Massetti earned her Bachelor's degree from Molloy in 2016. While at Molloy, she was a member of the softball team and played third base and pitched for the Lions. In 2015, she was named the ECC Player of the Year for her standout play on the field. During her collegiate career, Massetti was named an NCAA Woman of the Year top 30 honoree, NFCA Scholar-Athlete award recipient, and Third Team Academic All-American.

 Laura Donlevy  joined the Stony Brook swimming & diving coaching staff at the beginning of the 2023-24 season as announced by head coach Mark Anderson. She has since entered her second season with the program in 2024-25. This past season under the assistance of Donlevy, Stony Brook swimming and diving found their most success at the ECAC Championships, earning 16 top five finishes. Sara DiStefano, Natalia Chornomidza, and Mykayla Lavery swept the 1-meter dive competition as DiStefano captured victory in the 3-meter dive. Francesca Baber earned four individual wins, as the team of Michelle Vu, Brenna Mowrey, Alanna DePinto, and Baber claimed first place in the 400-freestyle relay. The Seawolves earned their lone win of the season over Manhattan as DiStefano broke the 1-meter dive program record with a score of 304.45. To close out the season at the CAA’s, DePinto captured the 100-breastroke program record with a time of 1:03.99 and Aili Talcott with the 200-breaststroke program record, logging a time of 2:20.28. Finding success in the pool and in the classroom, the team earned CSCAA Scholar All-America Team honor as Clara Armstrong and Sara Baxter were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.   In 2023-24, the Seawolves earned a pair of regular season victories before a second-place finish at the ECAC Championships. Donlevy helped guide the Stony Brook squad to a 3-3 overall record on the season. At the CAA Championships, Baxter, Conway, DePinto, and Vu broke the program record in the 400-medley relay. At the conclusion of the season, Armstrong, Baxter, Mary Kate Conway, and Jocelyn Lichwick all earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors as the Seawolves’ squad was selected to the CSCAA Scholar All-America Team. Donlevy brings prior coaching experience at both the collegiate and high school levels and has worked in education and physical education throughout her career. Prior to joining the Stony Brook staff, she came from The Stony Brook School where she was the aquatics director and the head coach of both the boys and girls varsity swim teams since 2021. She managed all operations of the swim program while also creating a positive team culture that emphasized unity and good sportsmanship.   Under Donlevy's guidance, five athletes broke Stony Brook School records while the girls team placed fourth and the boys team placed seventh at the NYSAIS championships. Nearly all of her athletes posted their best times at the Eastern Championships.   Before The Stony Brook School, Donlevy was a physical education and aquatics teacher at Convent of the Sacred Heart School, an all-girls school in New York City, for seven years. She also served as the middle school swim coach from 2016-19.   She has made previous collegiate coaching stops at Towson (2013-14) and Wagner (2011-13), both in assistant coaching roles. At Towson, she helped the team to a CAA Championship in 2014 and three individuals qualified for the NCAA Championships. At Wagner, she led a pair of top-three finishes at the NEC Championships and also guided the 2013 NEC Co-Outstanding Swimmer of the Year in Amanda Lucia.   She graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a Bachelor's degree in history, where she was a member of the swim team for three years and received a Master's in Secondary and Special Education from Wagner in 2013.