Kim Wilson, one of the winningest all-time coaches in NCAA Division III softball, enters her 30th season as Rowan’s head coach for the 2026 season. The NFCA Hall of Fame coach has led the Profs to ten New Jersey Athletic Conference titles and 21 NCAA Tournament appearances, and 6 NCAA National Championship Tournament appearances, including three consecutive trips to the finals site in 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Wilson’s 29-year record at Rowan is 968-307-2, while her overall mark in 35 years of coaching, which includes six seasons at Washington & Jefferson College, is 1,032-364-2. At the start of the 2023 season, she ranked sixth in all-time victories and 13th in winning percentage among active Division III coaches. She was inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Hall of Fame in December of 2023.
On March 18, 2025, Wilson earned her 1,000th career coaching victory, becoming the first woman in Division III to earn the distinction.
Rowan’s 21 NCAA Regional appearances under Wilson include six trips to the NCAA Super Regional, including back-to-back berths in 2018 & 2019 and again in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Under her tutelage, the Profs reached the Division III Finals six times (1999, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2024, 2025).
A return to the NCAA National Championship Tournament for the third consecutive year in 2025 after winning the NJAC Regular Season and Tournament Championship, the NCAA Regional, and NCAA Super Regional rounds, all hosted at Rowan. The team shattered program records for wins in a season (49) and win streak (31) en route to leading the country in ERA, Winning Percentage, and Fielding Percentage for the 2025 season. Wilson and her coaching staff earned the NJAC’s top honor for the fifth consecutive season and the 11th time in program history. She also led her staff to earn their third consecutive NFCA Regional Coaching Staff of the Year honor.
The 2024 season marked a return to the NCAA Finals as the Profs secured the NJAC Regular Season and Tournament Championship, the NCAA Regional and NCAA Super Regional Rounds, all played here in Glassboro, finishing with a 41-10 record. Wilson and her coaching staff earned NJAC Coaching Staff of the Year honors and was named NFCA Regional Coaching Staff of the Year en route to tying a program-best Third Place National Finish.
The 2023 Profs went 42-10 and captured the NJAC regular-season title with a 17-1 record while Wilson earned the conference’s Coach of the Year award. Rowan went on win the NCAA Marietta Regional title and then the NCAA Ashland Super Regional to advance to the NCAA Finals for the seventh time in school history.
Wilson’s Profs added to the tradition in 2022 when Rowan captured the NJAC Championship and made another trip to the NCAA Tournament while posting an overall record of 35-10. She was named the NJAC Co-Coach of the Year, earning her eighth conference award as she guided the Profs to the regular-season title with a 15-3 league record.
The 2021 squad went 27-7 and 17-1 in the NJAC, to capture the regular-season crown and the top seed in the conference tournament. The coach, who was named the NJAC Coach of the Year for the seventh time in her career, recorded her milestone 800th win at Rowan on May 7, 2021, with a 3-0 win over Ramapo in the NJAC Tournament. Rowan also finished the year ranked 18th in the NFCA Division III Top 25 Poll.
The Profs’ chances for a third straight trip to the NCAA Super Regional were thwarted in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic, as Rowan’s season ended in March with a 5-2-1 record. In 2019, Rowan captured the NCAA Cambridge Regional title in thrilling fashion as the No. 23 Profs used 14 innings to defeat MIT, but fell to Eastern Connecticut State in the Super Regional to finish the season with a 33-15 record.
The 2018 Profs advanced to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament in Oklahoma City after capturing the NCAA Regional and Super Regional titles. The coach hit two milestone victories that year, with her 700th win at Rowan coming over Randolph College on February 24, 2018, and the 800th in her overall career being the win over Moravian College on May 20, 2018 that gave the Profs the NCAA Super Regional title. Wilson guided Rowan to its seventh NJAC title and a 39-13-1 record while she and her assistants were named the NFCA East Region Coaching Staff of the Year. In 2017, Rowan compiled a 33-11 mark and reached the final of the NCAA Babson Park Regional.
Wilson’s 2016 squad finished tied for third at the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament for the best finish in Rowan history, after compiling titles at the NCAA Cortland Regional and the Ithaca Super Regional. The Profs set a school mark for victories with a 42-11 record while team captured the NJAC Championship.
Wilson was chosen the 2015 NJAC Coach of the Year as the team went 38-8, reached the NJAC title game and the final of the NCAA Alfred Regional. That followed a 37-12 record in 2014 with a conference crown and the NCAA Ithaca Regional title, which advanced Rowan to the NCAA Rochester Super Regional. The 2013 squad went 41-9 with an appearance in the NCAA Babson Park Regional as Wilson earned NJAC Coach of the Year honors.
The 2012 Profs went 39-9, won the NJAC championship and advanced to the final of the NCAA Union Regional. Wilson was named the NJAC Co-Coach of the Year in 2011 as Rowan went 31-13 and earned an NCAA at-large bid, following a 28-13 record in 2010.
Wilson was selected as the NJAC and Division III Metro Softball Combat Sports/Eastern College Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2009, after guiding her team to a 35-12 mark and its second straight at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, following the achievement of the 2008 team that finished 31-11.
The 2006 Profs went 41-7 to set a then-school record for wins and reach the final of the NCAA Regional Tournament. Prior to that, Wilson’s teams were 25-14 in 2005, 28-10 in 2004 and 19-15 in 2003.
The 2001 and 2002 squads won back-to-back NJAC titles, with the 2002 Profs going 33-16 and advancing to the NCAA Regional Final. In 2000, Rowan posted a 32-13 record following a 37-10 season in 1999 that featured a regional title and Wilson being named the NJAC Coach of the Year for the second year in a row.
In her first two seasons at Rowan, Wilson gave a glimpse of the success that the program would enjoy under her tutelage. She earned Coach of the Year honors in both the Atlantic Region and the NJAC in 1998 as she guided the Profs to a 35-9 record, the conference title and an NCAA Regional appearance. In her debut as Rowan’s ninth head coach in 1997, the Profs compiled a 35-5 mark and earned a berth in the NCAA Regional.
She came to Rowan after six years as head softball coach at Washington & Jefferson College, where she compiled a 65-57 record, led her team to the 1996 Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) championship and was named the league’s Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1996.
Originally from Erie, PA, Wilson played volleyball and softball at Slippery Rock University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1989. She has been extremely involved in the sport as the chair of the NCAA Division III East Region Advisory Committee and as a member of the National Softball Committee and the NFCA Head Coaches Committee.
| Rowan Coaching Record |
| Season |
Overall |
NJAC |
Postseason |
| 1997 |
35-5 |
9-1 |
NCAA Regional |
| 1998 |
35-9 |
8-2 |
NJAC Champion | NCAA Regional |
| 1999 |
37-10 |
10-0 |
NCAA Finals |
| 2000 |
32-13 |
5-3 |
NJAC Tournament |
| 2001 |
34-11 |
16-2 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Regional |
| 2002 |
33-16 |
14-2 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Regional |
| 2003 |
19-15 |
10-8 |
|
| 2004 |
28-10 |
13-5 |
NJAC Tournament |
| 2005 |
25-14 |
10-6 |
NJAC Tournament |
| 2006 |
41-7 |
15-3 |
NCAA Regional |
| 2007 |
23-17 |
9-9 |
NJAC Tournament |
| 2008 |
31-11 |
13-5 |
NCAA Regional |
| 2009 |
35-12 |
15-3 |
NCAA Regional |
| 2010 |
28-13 |
12-6 |
NJAC Tournament |
| 2011 |
31-13 |
14-4 |
NCAA Regional |
| 2012 |
39-9 |
12-6 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Regional |
| 2013 |
41-9 |
16-2 |
NCAA Regional |
| 2014 |
37-12 |
14-4 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Super Regional |
| 2015 |
38-8 |
14-4 |
NCAA Regional |
| 2016 |
42-11 |
15-3 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Finals |
| 2017 |
33-11 |
12-6 |
NCAA Regional |
| 2018 |
39-13-1 |
12-6 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Finals |
| 2019 |
33-15 |
14-4 |
NCAA Super Regional |
| 2020 |
5-2-1 |
0-0 |
|
| 2021 |
27-7 |
17-1 |
NJAC Tournament |
| 2022 |
35-10 |
15-3 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Regional |
| 2023 |
42-10 |
17-1 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Finals |
| 2024 |
41-10 |
16-2 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Finals |
| 2025 |
49-4 |
17-1 |
NJAC Champions | NCAA Finals |
| TOTALS |
919-303-2 |
364-102 |
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