Title: Head coach, Colorado State University
Sport: Fastpitch Softball
Career Record: 133-79

Jen Fisher, the 2010 NCAA DII Coach of the Year enters her enters season as head softball coach at her alma mater, Colorado State University.  In their first year under Fisher, the Rams finished the season with an 8-43 record.

Fisher was officially announced as the Rams head coach on Aug. 20, 2010.

A native of Fort Collins, Fisher attended Rocky Mountain High School where she starred for the Lobos in softball, basketball and tennis, and was selected as the school’s female athlete of the year as a senior in 1990. She followed up her outstanding prep career by playing softball collegiately at Creighton for one season before transferring to Colorado School of Mines, where she played shortstop and was the Orediggers’ team captain in 1994.

At the conclusion of her playing career, Fisher returned home to Fort Collins, enrolling at Colorado State where her father, Wayne Schubert, has been a professor in the university’s world-renowned atmospheric sciences program since 1973. Fisher completed her bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1997, also earning her secondary teaching license.

During that time, Fisher began to establish her coaching roots firmly within the community. From 1994-98, she coached the Fort Collins Buckaroos softball club, spending four seasons with the program. Fisher also spent three seasons as a developmental coach at Poudre High School before embarking on her collegiate coaching career at Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colo.

While at OJC (1998-2006), Fisher amassed an impressive record of 355-119 and won seven consecutive Region IX championships and Coach of the Year awards. Fisher’s Rattlers squads averaged more than 43 victories per season. She mentored seven NJCAA All-Americans and guided 13 more student-athletes to academic All-America status.

Fisher left OJC to resurrect a Metro State program that was slated to resume competition in 2008 after being disbanded in 1990. Using her consistent approach to the game, Fisher’s winning ways continued immediately as the head coach of the Roadrunners.

In three seasons at the NCAA Division II level, Fisher guided the program from infancy to 125 wins, while surrendering just 36 ballgames. And Fisher wasted little time in putting the Roadrunners’ program on the national map as well.

In 2008, Metro State’s first season of competition, Fisher posted a record of 32-18 (26-11 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference), laying the foundation for the next two seasons, which would feature back-to-back postseason appearances.

Metro’s 2009 squad went 40-12 (29-7 RMAC) behind the guidance of Fisher, the conference Coach of the Year. She led the Roadrunners to the RMAC regular-season and tournament championships, earning an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.

Just when Roadrunners appeared to have reached the pinnacle of their success, Fisher took her squad to new heights. In 2010 the team took the nation by storm, posting a record of 53-6 (37-2 RMAC), earning back-to-back regular-season and tournament conference titles. Fisher once again was named league Coach of the Year, and following a run to the NCAA Central Region title and a College World Series berth, Fisher captured CaptainU National Coach of the Year honors while her staff was tabbed as the NFCA Central Region Coaching Staff of the Year.

Fisher and her husband Joe, a former CSU baseball player, have a son, Garrett Wayne, who will turn 11 in October.