Wellesley College Women's Softball

O'Meara also guided the Blue to the NEWMAC Tournament Title in 2007 and the NEWMAC Regular Season Championship in 2008, earning a bid into an NCAA Regional in both seasons. The Blue have played in the NEWMAC Playoffs in every season under O'Meara (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015), while also qualifying for the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships in 2005 and 2006. OMeara came to Wellesley from Dartmouth College where she was the Assistant Softball Coach. At Dartmouth, she was responsible for coordinating all aspects of recruiting. She also assisted with practice/game coaching, scouting, game preparation, team travel, strength and conditioning and fundraising. Prior to Dartmouth, OMeara was the Assistant Coach at Bloomsburg University, and was named to the Regional Coaching Staff of the Year in 2001. While obtaining her masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction, she assisted with all aspects of the program including recruiting, practice preparation, travel and fundraising. At Bloomsburg, the team finished as the fourth-ranked team in Division II, winning the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship for the second consecutive season. Before entering the college coaching ranks, OMeara spent five years coaching and teaching at the high school level (West Essex Regional High School, Caldwell, N.J.; Long Branch High School, Long Branch, N.J.) OMeara also serves as an Associate Professor of Physical Education at Wellesley and teaches advanced spinning and Boot Camp in the required physical education program. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education from Montclair State University in 1996. While at Montclair State, she was an NCAA Division III All-America softball selection, a four-year starter and standout on Montclairs soccer team, and the colleges representative for NCAA Woman of the Year.

Adriane Baird joined Wellesley as an Assistant Softball Coach in September 2023. Baird comes to Wellesley after serving as the Head Softball Coach for Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) since 2019 and has coached nine NFCA Scholar-Athletes and one All-MASCAC student-athlete. While at MCLA, Baird menotred assistant coaches, recruited high caliber student-athletes, increased engagement with program alumnae, and revamped the team's social media presence. Baird has served as the Coordinator of Student-Athlete Development since 2019 and was the Coordinator for the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Baird is no stranger to the NEWMAC, having previously been an Assistant Softball Coach at Smith College from 2017-19. During her time at Smith, Baird co-taught an undergraduate course titled "Introduction to Coaching". Baird was also a math teacher as well as the Head Softball Coach and Assistant Field Hockey Coach from 2015-17 at Choate Rosemary Hall, a school in Wallingford, Conn. for talented students in grades nine through postgraduate. When not coaching collegiately, Baird has worked as a Camp Instructor/Evaluator for Triple Crown Fastpitch, providing coaching instruction to campers on hitting, fielding, and baserunning in addition to evaluating prospective recruits on skill and coachability. Baird has taken part in several NFCA coaching seminars, attended the ESPNW Summit in May 2021, and attended workshops about difficult race discussions among collegiate student-athletes. A 2015 graduate of Bowdoin College with a degree in Gender and Women's Studies, Baird earned a MS in Exercise and Sport Science from Smith in 2019. While at Bowdoin, Baird was a four-year member of the softball team, and was a two time All-NESCAC honoree, a NESCAC All-Academic honoree, and holds Bowdoin's program record for single season doubles with 15.