11 Years • ESU Record: 317-201-1 • NCAA DII Atlantic Region Championship (2023) • NFCA Atlantic Region Coaching Staff of the Year (2023) • Five NCAA Appearances (2021, 2023-26)
Jaime Wohlbach completed her 11th season as head softball coach at East Stroudsburg University in 2026.
Over the past six seasons, Wohlbach has developed the Warriors into a PSAC, regional, and national power. Wohlbach led ESU to a combined 239-96 record, five of ESU's seven NCAA Tournament berths, and all five of its 30-win seasons in program history.
The Warriors put together their fourth straight season of 20-plus conference wins, going 21-11 and 38-21 overall. ESU hit its stride at the right time down the stretch, winning 10 of its last 12 games before the PSAC Tournament. ESU entered as the third seed in the PSAC East, finishing as the conference runners-up. The Warriors not only punched their ticket to a fourth straight NCAA Tournament, but also hosted one of the Atlantic Region pods as the second seed. ESU was defeated in the region final, wrapping up its season.
Led by their two All-Americans, Delaney Ridgell and Sarah Davenport earned national honors from both the NFCA and D2CCA. Kinsley Proepper joined those two on the NFCA and D2CCA First Team All-Region teams, as well as the All-PSAC East First Team. Davenport finished the year as an NCAA statistical champion for the fourth time after the third season in her career, leading Division II with 307 strikeouts. At the plate, Ridgell and Proepper posted the fourth- and fifth-best seasons in program history in batting average, fourth- and second-best seasons in slugging percentage, and seventh-best and best on-base percentage, respectively.
ESU set its program record for most wins in its third straight season in 2025, going 48-12-1 and winning the team’s first conference championship since 2025. The Warriors won nine straight conference games during the season, their longest winning streak against PSAC opponents. They ended the season on an eight-game winning streak entering the PSAC Tournament, coming out of the winners' bracket, and defeating Shepherd for their second conference title. ESU hosted an Atlantic Region pod, falling in the region final to Shippensburg.
Sarah Davenport led Division II with 32 wins, and the team finished as the leaders with 8.72 strikeouts per seven innings, as Davenport earned First Team All-America from the NFCA and Second Team from the D2CCA. The Warriors placed three others in addition to Davenport on All-Region and All-PSAC East Teams, as Abigail Weirich and Delaney Ridgell were First Team across the board, and Tatum Kresly was a Second Team All-Region selection and made First Team All-Conference. Weirich became the third player in program history to be awarded PSAC East Athlete of the Year, finishing the year with the most total bases and extra-base hits, second-most hits and doubles, and third-most stolen bases by an ESU player in a season.
Capping off the awards, Wohlbach would be named the PSAC East Coach of the Year, winning the award in consecutive years, for leading ESU to its most wins and second conference championship in the program’s history.
ESU’s upward trajectory continued to climb in 2024, as the Warriors went 46-17 to improve on their 44 record-breaking wins they totaled in 2023. After a 3-4 start, the Warriors steadied themselves and quickly found the winning formula, going on a 15-game winning streak. Later on, they had two stretches of seven and six consecutive wins over PSAC opponents, putting them in first place in the PSAC East heading into the conference tournament. The Warriors would finish as the conference runners-up, but not before securing a top-two seed in the Atlantic Region to host a pod for the Atlantic Regional.
Davenport earned her first All-American honor in 2024, making the First Team for both the NFCA and the D2CCA as a freshman, breaking onto the scene to lead Division II with 322 strikeouts and 12.1 strikeouts per seven innings. Davenport, Reilly Vicendese, and Delaney Ridgell all earned First Team All-Region and All-PSAC East, as Taylor Lipkins also earned a Second Team All-PSAC East Nod. For the conference awards, Davenport was named the PSAC East Rookie and Pitcher of the Year, becoming the fourth freshman and third pitcher to do so, including the third pitcher in four seasons. Wohlbach was awarded PSAC East Coach of the Year, becoming just the second coach in program history to win the honor.
In 2023, ESU Softball reached new heights, breaking countless records, including the Warriors' single-season program record for wins with 44, on the way to the program's first NCAA Division II Atlantic Region Championship and NCAA Softball Championship appearance. Wohlbach previously directed ESU to a program record for wins in 2022 (34-11) and tied the record in 2021 (29-16).
In 2023, after taking down Charleston in a three-game series at Creekview Park, ESU advanced to the NCAA Softball Championships for the first time in program history and picked up a win on the biggest stage in the sport in a 2-1 victory over Nova Southeastern. Paige Zigmund was the star for the Warriors in the circle in the postseason, posting a 0.93 ERA in 45 innings of work during the NCAA Tournament, allowing just six earned runs, while striking out 26 batters with a 5-1 record. She became the first Warrior pitcher to earn NFCA All-Region First Team honors. Despite 2023 being the most successful season in program history, Zigmund was the lone Warrior to represent ESU on the All-PSAC East First Team, with the team showing its depth with five members (Jada Smallwood, Reilly Vicendese, Molly Nies, Abigail Weirich, and Kate Donaghue) landing on the All-PSAC East Second Team. ESU went from being predicted No. 6 in the PSAC East Preseason Poll to No. 5 in the final NFCA Coaches Poll, the best national ranking for the team in program history.
The Warriors have had 12 All-PSAC East selections in Wohlbach’s first six years at ESU, and in 2021, as Marah Range became the first player in program history to be named the PSAC East Pitcher of the Year. In 2017, Mary Wallick became the first ESU player in six years to earn NFCA First Team All-Atlantic Region accolades.
Wohlbach led the Warriors to one of the best seasons in program history in 2021 as they ranked No. 24 in the final NFCA Division II Top 25 Poll after finishing as the runner-up in the Atlantic Region. ESU tied the school record for wins in a season (29) while setting records for home wins (20), conference wins (17), stolen bases (132, 2nd in DII), and fielding percentage (.971). ESU did not lose a single PSAC East series throughout the regular season and had 10 come-from-behind victories.
Along with being named the conference pitcher of the year, Range was selected to the All-PSAC First Team, First Team All-Region by D2CCA, and earned Second Team All-Region accolades from the NFCA. Freshman Reilly Vicendese put together an impressive debut season as she was named to the All-PSAC Second Team as well as Second-Team All-Region by both the D2CCA and the NFCA after batting .380 with a freshman record 60 hits and 30 RBIs. Morgan Walsh rounded out the postseason honors for the Warriors as she was selected to the All-PSAC Second Team after posting a .400 batting average with a .529 on-base percentage.
During the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season, the Warriors went 6-10.
During the 2019 campaign, Wohlbach led the Warriors to the most wins in a season (26) since the 2007 campaign, while the team's eight PSAC East wins were the most in program history since the conference deployed the three-division format.
The Warriors have led the PSAC in stolen bases per game in seven of Wohlbach's 10 seasons, excluding the 2020 season that was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, the Warriors set the program's single-season record with 138 stolen bases.
In addition to her collegiate coaching, Wohlbach has maintained a strong presence internationally, serving as an assistant coach for Peru’s national team at the Women’s Softball World Championships and also leading a USA Northeast Region team at the U12 All-American Games in 2017 and 2018.
Wohlbach, formerly head coach at the University of Delaware for five years, arrived at ESU with eight years of collegiate head coaching experience, all at the Division I level.
Wohlbach was head coach at Delaware from 2011 through 2015, making three Colonial Athletic Association playoff appearances during that span. The Blue Hens won 35 games in 2013, second-most in program history, and made three straight postseason trips (2011-13) for the first time since 2002-04.
She was previously head coach at Iona from 2008-10, earning Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors in her final season after leading the Gaels to their first MAAC Championship title in 25 years. With the conference title, Iona advanced to the NCAA DI tournament for the first time in program history.
Wohlbach began her coaching career as a student assistant at Kutztown (2000-01), volunteer assistant at Muhlenberg (1999-01) and Lehigh (2001-02), and as an assistant at the University of Pennsylvania (2002-03).
She served on the NCAA rules committee in 2013, and has been selected as a conference representative for the head coaches committee at both of her previous positions.
Since 2002, Wohlbach has run a national and international softball clinic, J9 Fastpitch Performance. The camps and clinics have included instruction in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, the Czech Republic, Belgium, and Australia.
As a player, Wohlbach earned All-PSAC East honors at catcher in her junior and senior seasons at Kutztown, and she added All-Region recognition as a senior in 2000. She was a three-time team captain and Kutztown’s team MVP in 1999.
Professionally, she signed with the Tampa Bay FireStix in the former Women’s Professional Softball League for the 2001 season. She was selected in the fourth round of the December 2003 draft in the National Pro Fastpitch League by the California Sunbirds in Sacramento. She additionally played for the independent league Nebraska Comets and the NPF’s Philadelphia Force in 2006.
Wohlbach participated in tours in the Czech Republic, Great Britain, and Italy, and played professionally in New Zealand in 2004 and 2005. She also competed on a world all-star select team, which included players from the U.S., New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and South Africa.
In 2004, Wohlbach played for the Great Britain National Team in Athens, Greece, as a test run for the 2004 Athens Olympics. From 2001-04, she coached an 18-under USA All-Star team in Australia following the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She also played professionally in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland, and coached a youth all-star team in Italy.
She appeared as a catcher for the USA Team in the 2010 movie “How Do You Know”, directed by James L. Brooks and starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, and Jack Nicholson.
Wohlbach earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Elementary Education and Special Education from Kutztown in 2000, and a Master’s degree in student affairs of higher education from Kutztown in 2002.
Jaime Wohlbach Year-by-Year Record
| Year |
Record |
| 2016 |
19-21 |
| 2017 |
13-26 |
| 2018 |
14-26 |
| 2019 |
26-22 |
| 2020 |
6-10 |
| 2021 |
29-16 |
| 2022 |
34-11 |
| 2023 |
44-19 |
| 2024 |
46-17 |
| 2025 |
48-12-1 |
| 2026 |
38-21 |
| Overall |
317-201-1 (.612) |
