Aug 1, 2006

Perrelli Named Softball Coach at Smith College

Northampton, MA: Director of Athletics, Lynn Oberbillig, announced today that Julie Perrelli has been appointed softball coach at Smith College. A 2001 graduate of Western Connecticut State University, Perrelli has served as a teaching fellow and assistant softball coach at Springfield College for the past four years. She replaces Bonnie May who assumed the Assistant Director of Athletics position at Smith.

Perrelli received a Master of Science Degree in Physical Education/Athletic Administration from Springfield College in 2004 and is expected to complete a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Physical Education in May of 2007. In addition to her coaching responsibilities at Springfield, she also served as the softball recruiting coordinator and fundraising director. She also assisted the Assistant Athletic Director in compliance and eligibility, taught various activity classes and this past spring taught an undergraduate course in athletic administration.

She served as the compliance coordinator intern at the University of Massachusetts in 2003 and was the assistant director of the Danbury Police Activities League Youth Center in Danbury, Connecticut from 1999-2002. Perrelli was the assistant field hockey coach at Ridgefield High School (CT) from 1996-98; assistant softball coach in 1999 and head field hockey coach at Southern Connecticut State University in the fall of 1999.

Perrelli is a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and the New England Intercollegiate Softball Coaches Association and has worked as a softball clinician for ten years.