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Jen Benway
Title: Assistant Athletic Director/Coordinator of Recruitment
Phone: 617.349.8536

Jen Benway begins her tenth season as the Head Softball Coach for the Lesley University Softball Team. As a 1998 graduate of Bentley College (Waltham, MA), Benway was a four-year starter at shortstop and lead off batter collecting numerous offensive records. In 1999, Benway made the switch from player to coach. 

Since her inaugural season in 2000, the Lynx softball team has significantly increased their wins and each spring challenges the conference championship.  This past season the softball team won the North Atlantic Conference Championship, earning the automatic qualifier into the NCAA Tournament.  Benway owes her team's latest accomplishments to successful recruiting classes and hard work and dedication from the team both in and out of the season. 

In the summer, Benway remains an active fastpitch player/coach in the Cambridge Fastpitch League and Newton Women's Twilight Fastpitch League (2007 Champs.)  This past summer, Coach Benway was selected as the Head Softball Coach for the Robur 58' Softball Series in Holland. The team, comprised of college players around the U.S, took home the bronze medal in the series.  In 2004, Coach Benway served as the Head Softball Coach for the Tuscany Series in Italy.  The team played vHolland and other Italian teams and went undefeated 10-0, winning both tournaments in Arezzo and San Casciano.  Coach Benway was also selected as an assistant coach for Coast to Coast Athletics. The team traveled to Australia to compete against Olympic Development teams in Brisbane and Sydney in the winter of 2002. 

In May of 2003, Coach Benway earned her Masters Degree at Lesley University in Interdisciplinary studies and created a mentoring program for rookie collegiate softball coaches as part of her thesis. Benway is a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and completed the NFCA's Coaches College, becoming a 4 star Master Coach in July of 2007.