Jen Fisher Retires After 16 Years as CSU Softball Coach
CSU will have to find a new softball coach prior to their first year in the new Pac-12.
Longtime CSU softball coach Jen Fisher retired Wednesday, ending her 16-year stint leading the way at her alma mater. | Colorado State Athletics Entering a new era in the Pac-12, Colorado State’s softball team will have to undergo the same process this offseason as their football team did: finding a new head coach. Longtime head coach Jen Fisher announced Wednesday night that she would be retiring as the head coach of the Rams this offseason, according to Justin McLeod of D1Softball.
Fisher retires with 373 career wins, the most by a CSU head coach by far. A Fort Collins native, Fisher was a star at local Rocky Mountains High, playing softball, basketball, and tennis. While she did not play for her hometown squad collegiately, Fisher did earn her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a teaching license from CSU in 1997.
Prior to taking over the Rams, Fisher spent over a decade at lower levels of collegiate softball, most notably turning Metro State from an infant program rebirth into a D-II College World Series participant in just three years. Fisher’s time in Fort Collins started off with an abysmal 8-43 record in 2011, the worst season in CSU softball history. However, just a year later, Fisher was named Mountain West Coach of the Year for a team that went 29-22 and finished second in the conference.
The Rams had a chance to win a conference title just two years later, but back-to-back home losses to San Jose State to close out the year kept them from glory. That would have to wait until 2019, when Fisher’s magnum opus took place. The Rams went 39-12, securing victories over No.