Jennifer Williams will enter her third year at the helm of the MIT softball program. In her second season, Williams helped the Engineers post their highest win total in New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) play since 1994. Williams arrived in Cambridge after spending one year at Southern New Hampshire University where she worked closely with the Penmen pitching staff while also assisting in infield and hitting instruction.
 
Prior to her tenure at Southern New Hampshire, Williams spent two years as an assistant for the Smith College softball team as she pursued a Master’s of Science in Exercise Science and Sports Studies. Williams’ coaching experience extends overseas as well, as she served as the Pitching Coach for the Swedish Junior and Senior National Teams in the summer of 2008. She also assisted the Enköping Softball Club while in Sweden and has a wealth of instructional and clinical experience.
 
Williams was a four-year member of the Middlebury College softball team while an undergraduate and has completed classes as part of the National Fastpitch Coaches College.

Amelia Magistrali became the assistant softball coach at MIT in the fall of 2010 after a summer spent running the farm program at a camp in the Berkshires.

Magistrali graduated from Middlebury College in 2009 with a degree in Environmental Studies and Anthropology where she competed on the school’s rugby and softball teams.

Magistrali was a senior captain as well as the starting third baseman for four years on the Middlebury College softball team. She comes to MIT with a background in volunteer coaching for youth sports.

Kelly McManus is entering her first year as an assistant coach for the Engineers. She is a recent graduate of Bates College, where she was a four-year starter for the Bobcats as a shortstop, third baseman and outfielder. McManus broke the single-season record and career record for sacrifices in 2012, was fourth all-time in career runs and eighth all-time in career singles. McManus was also a member of the Bobcat field hockey team.

Aside from athletics, McManus received a degree in psychology in 2012 with two concentrations in Chinese culture and society as well as anthropology. She wrote her thesis on how athletes get in the zone. 

McManus has coached many softball and field hockey camps and is now working at an elementary school in Brighton, where she works with special needs students.

Melissa Schellberg enters her first year as a volunteer assistant coach at MIT. She has coached at softball clinics in the New England area for the past three years, primarily working with catchers, infielders and hitters.

Schellberg was the starting third baseman for Harvard from 2006-2010 and was co-captain her senior year. A four time All-Ivy Selection, she finished her career with the most assists in school history with 369, most games played with 184, most at-bats with 531 and tied for most games started with 180. She helped lead her team to a 2007 Ivy League Championship and qualify for the NCAA tournament.