Updated July 2025
Madison Trotman joined the MIT softball staff in 2020 and begins her fourth season as the head coach in 2025-26 after serving as the program's interim head coach in the fall of 2022.
MIT won its third-straight NEWMAC Championship in 2025 as Trotman and her staff were named the NEWMAC Coaching Staff of the Year after the team went 16-4 in conference play to win the regular season title. Delaney Benevides was named the NEMAC Rookie of the Year and eight Engineers were named to the NEWMAC All-Conference Team. Four Engineers were named to the NFCA First Team All-Region as the team collected a total of seven All-Region honors, which were the second most in Division III. Trotman and her staff were also named the NFCA Region II Coaching Staff of the Year.
Trotman and her staff were named the NEWMAC Coaching Staff of the Year and the NFCA Region II Coaching Staff of the Year as the 2023 Engineers posted a 36-8 record and won the NEWMAC Regular Season and Tournament crown. MIT also won the Cambridge NCAA Regional and hosted a Super Regional. Trotman coached Mackenzie Bivin who became the first player in program history to be named an First Team All-American. In addition, senior Jordan Sell was named a Second Team All-American. MIT set numerous program records including batting average, doubles, hits and RBI.
MIT repeated as NEWMAC Champions in 2024 and advanced to its third-straight NCAA Regional Championship as her staff was once again named the NFCA Region II Coaching Staff of the Year. Mikayla Cable and Caroline Langmeyer earned NFCA All-Region honor and five Engineers earned NEWMAC All-Conference honors.
As a student-athlete, Trotman played four years for Division III Brandeis University, was a two-time NFCA All-Region selection, served as captain her senior year and was also an active member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). In 144 career games, totaled a batting average of .333 to go along with 92 runs, 148 hits, 18 home runs, 99 RBI and 13 stolen bases. She ranks first all-time in the Brandeis record books in sacrifice flies, fifth in home runs and eighth in RBI.
Off the diamond, she previously served as a baseball and softball Instructor at Extra Innings in Middleton, Mass and as an assistant coach for the Nebraska Nemesis 16U Gold Fastpitch Softball Organization from 2016-18. She has also worked as the Administrative Coordinator for Athletic Training Services at Boston University and as a Public Health Associate at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Trotman graduated from Brandeis in 2016 as a double-major in Science, Society and Policy as well as Psychology. She earned Master of Public Health from Boston University in May of 2020.
