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Dale Martin

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The most successful coach in Valiant softball history and the winningest coach in Manhattanville history, Dale Martin finished the seventh season of his second stint in Purchase and 13th season overall at the helm of the Manhattanville softball program in 2019.

A six-time Conference Coach of the Year, Martin is arguably the most successful coach in Manhattanville history. He is the softball program's all-time leader in wins, games coached and winning percentage and is one of only four coaches in department history to lead a team for at more than 12 years.
In 2019, the Valiants' final season as a member of the MAC Freedom before rejoining the Skyline Conference, Martin guided his squad to yet another record-setting season. The Valiants set the record in hits (493) and tied for the most wins in program history with 41. Manhattanville reached as high as No. 13 in the NFCA Division III Top 25 Poll en route to capturing their fourth-consecutive MAC Freedom Championship and trip to the NCAA Regionals. Overall, led by NFCA Divsion III Third Team All-American senior catcher Evonne Torres, Manhattanville collected a total of 27 individual postseason honors. In addition to the eight All-MAC Freedom accolades, the Valiants swept all of the major awards (Coach, Player, Pitcher and Rookie of the Year). Manhattanville also earned five NFCA All-East Region selections and five All-ECAC honorees, including Pitcher and Rookie of the Year.
Manhattanville had another record-setting season in 2017, starting the season as the ninth-ranked team in the NFCA Div. III Top 25 Poll and reaching as high as #6 in the country early in the year. The Valiants finished the year with a 32-15 record and became the first school in MAC Freedom softball history to record an undefeated conference regular season (14-0) on the way to their third MAC Freedom title and third NCAA Tournament Regional final appearance in the last four years. Four players earned NFCA All-Region honors after the season and senior Brittany Deieso was named MAC Freedom Player of the Year in addition to becoming the school's second NFCA All-America selection.
Martin led Manhattanville to a historical 2016 season, achieving multiple milestones on the way to a 41-5 overall record that ranked third in the country in winning percentage (.891). The team won its first 18 games of the season to garner the first NFCA national ranking in program history, moving all the way up to #19 by the end of the year. The top-seeded Valiants captured their second MAC Freedom Tournament championship in three years with three straight wins, and then advanced to the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever after winning the Ewing, New Jersey Regional with two thrilling shutout victories over top-seeded TCNJ on the final day. Manhattanville was one of the top hitting teams in Division III all year, leading the country in home runs (67, eighth in D-III history), home runs per game (1.46/gm, 5th in D-III history) and slugging percentage (.636, seventh in D-III history). The team also set new program records in runs (369), hits (460), doubles (105), runs batted in (334), total bases (792), wins (41), shutouts (16) and games played (46) during the year, and did so with a very young lineup that regularly started four freshmen and seven underclassmen.
Martin performed perhaps his most masterful coaching job in 2014, guiding a Valiant squad comprising only 11 players to a 29-10 (13-1 Freedom) record and the program's first Freedom Conference championship. After going 2-6 in Florida, Manhattanville went 25-2 in its next 27 games to capture Martin's fourth conference title and fifth NCAA Tournament berth in eight years with the team. The Valiants also reached the first NCAA Tournament Regional final in program history as well, beating Penn State Berks and #24 William Paterson to reach the finals of the Salisbury, Maryland Regional. The honors poured in for Manhattanville after the season, led by the program's first-ever NFCA All-American in freshman Shelbee Damianos.
Martin came back to Manhattanville after serving as head coach at Division I Fairleigh Dickinson University from 2008-12, and during his tenure improved the team’s win total in all five seasons as head coach of the Knights. He set new single-season win totals in both of his last two seasons with the program, including a record 30-20 mark in 2012, and left the school as its all-time leader in wins.
Martin previously had been the head coach of the Valiant softball program for six years from 2002-07. He led the program to unprecedented heights during his first tenure, posting the four highest single-season win totals at the school and guiding the team to three Skyline Conference Tournament championships and the only four NCAA Tournament appearances in program history up to that point. He concluded his run with a 47-game conference winning streak and topped the regular-season standings four times, including each of his final three years.

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