Stephanie DeFeo, the former head softball coach at North Carolina Greensboro and East Tennessee State, enters her fourth season as the assistant softball coach at Ball State University.

In addition to the team's first ever Mid-American Conference Championship in 2009, DeFeo has helped lead the Cardinals to a 92-98 overall record in her three seasons, as well as a berth in the 2008 and 2009 MAC Tournaments, marking BSU's first trips to the league's premiere event since the 2002 season. She has also helped coach two All-MAC First Team selections, four All-MAC Second Team selections and the program's first All-MAC Freshman Team selections. BSU has also broke numerous hitting, pitching and fielding records during her tenure.

DeFeo spent the 2005-06 season as the sole proprietor and manager of All-American Softball Clinics, where she provided private lessons for hitting, pitching, catching and fielding. In addition, she conducted private clinics for summer teams, middle school and high school programs.

From 2002-05, DeFeo was the head coach at North Carolina Greensboro and compiled a 68-48 overall record. In her first season, UNC-Greensboro set a school and Southern Conference record with 57 home runs. In her two years as the head coach, DeFeo tutored the 2003 Southern Conference Player of the Year and six all-conference student-athletes.

DeFeo developed a first-year softball program at East Tennessee State where she was the head coach from 2000-02.

Prior to East Tennessee State, DeFeo was an assistant at Buffalo (1999-2000), Texas San Antonio (1998-99) and Southeastern Louisiana (1997).

As a collegiate student-athlete, DeFeo earned a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana Lafayette in 1997 where she was a three-time National Fast Pitch Coaches Association All-American and a three-time College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-American. She set school records for home runs in a single season (15), home runs in a career (43), slugging percentage in a career (.676) and runs-batted-in in a career (187).

After completing her collegiate playing career, DeFeo played for the Orlando Wahoos in the Women’s Professional Softball League in the summer of 1997, plus played for the Durham Dragons in the summers of 1998 and 1999.