Janet Maguire - Assistant Coach - Softball Coaches

Janet Maguire

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
janet.maguire@westpoint.edu
Phone:
4443

Janet Maguire joined the Army West Point softball coaching staff as an assistant coach in August of 2019.

Maguire primarily works with the team's defense and helped a pair of middle infielders earn First Team All-Patriot League honors in 2021, as both Angelina Bebek (2B) and Ally Snelling (SS) were selected. The Black Knights fielded .962 in 2021, marking the program's best effort since 2019 (.961). Maguire's defense turned 14 double plays throughout the year and racked up 206 assists.

Maguire arrived to the banks of the Hudson after spending three years with the same title at Cornell University. In her first two seasons, the Big Red’s fielding percentage improved from .945 in 2016 to .968 and .963 in 2017 and 2018. There, she mentored Erin Rockstroh, whose batting average increased from .197 to .410 in route to earning all-Ivy League honors in 2018.

From 2008-12, she served as assistant coach on Brown University’s staff. In her first four years with the program the team improved its Ivy League win mark each season. Maguire was instrumental in the recruitment and development of Stephanie Thompson and Kate Strobel. Thompson holds the Ivy League career record for batting average and on-base percentage, while Strobel is also featured in the Ivy League record book in numerous categories.

Prior to moving up to the Division I ranks, Maguire had a successful tenure as head coach at her alma matter Division III Bridgewater State University from 2001-07. She guided the program to seven consecutive regular season conference championships, five conference tournament titles and five NCAA regional appearances. She was named MASCAC Coach of the Year in 2006. Maguire accumulated a 175-122-3 (.588) record during her seven-year tenure, including 86-12 in conference play (.878).

Maguire spent the 2000 season as the head coach at UMass-Boston, where she led the team that was held winless the year before to a 9-21 record in her lone season with the program. She also served as the head women's soccer coach.

A 1994 graduate of Bridgewater State University with a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, she also obtained her masters in Physical Education from Bridgewater State. A captain her senior year, she helped her team to a second-place finish in the 1994 NCAA Division III World Series. She still owns school record for runs scored in a season (57 in 1994) and singles in a season (61 in 1994).