Nate Parsley joined the Rowan softball staff as the first full-time assistant coach in the spring of 2020.
At Rowan, Parsley was a student assistant and part-time assistant softball coach from 2009-2016. He helped lead the Profs to three New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Tournament Championships, five regular season NJAC Championships, seven NCAA appearances, two NCAA Regional Championships, one NCAA Super Regional Championship and one NCAA National Championship third place finish in 2016. He coached the pitchers and assisted with all facets of the program. From 2012-2015, the pitching staff had one of the lowest earned run averages in Division III. Several pitchers earned All-Conference and All-Region honors and one was the NJAC Pitcher of the Year.
Prior, Parsley was the head men’s and women’s swim coach and director of aquatics at Arcadia University from 2017-20 and the assistant softball coach at Radford University for one year (2016-17). At Arcadia, Parsley guided the men’s and women’s swim teams to three consecutive top three finishes at the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championships (2018-20), 625 lifetime-best performances, 40 program records, six MAC conference records, 14 Lenox Pool records, 14 MAC champions and three NCAA B cuts. His teams earned College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America honors five straight semesters. The men’s team had an unbeaten dual meet record of 9-0-1 for the 2019-20 season. He was chosen the MAC Men’s Coach of the Year. In 2017-18, the women’s squad was undefeated with an 11-0 mark.
Parsley was the pitching/catching specialist on the Radford staff and worked with Big South All-Conference pitcher Abby Morrow. He developed a program for pitchers to increase velocity, location and movement. Parsley assisted with in-game pinch calling and defensive strategy. He scouted nationally and identified prospective student-athletes at recruiting tournaments.
Parsley graduated from the University with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education in 2012. He later earned a master’s in higher education administration in 2016. Parsley was an assistant coach for the Rowan men’s and women’s swim teams from 2013-15. Parsley swam for the Profs for four years (2008-12). He competed in the backstroke, distance freestyle and individual medley. Parsley was named to the 2012 Philadelphia InquirerAcademic All-Area Team and was inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. He was a member of the Rowan Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (2009-12).
In addition, Parsley was the head softball coach of the 2015-16 Delaware Magic Travel Softball 16U Team, which finished with a 34-9 record and as third at the 2016 ASA Northeast Nationals. He was an assistant men’s and women’s swim coach at Haddonfield High School for one season (2015-16). Parsley was a physical education long term substitute teacher in 2013 at Tatem Elementary School.
