University of Connecticut Athletics
Softball
- Title:
- Volunteer Assistant Coach
- Email:
- alyssa.vanderveer@uconn.edu
Alyssa VanDerveer joined the UConn softball coaching staff in January 2019. VanDerveer will work with UConn’s offensive unit and catchers.
VanDerveer's joined the Carolina Elite coaching staff in 2018, helping to develop young athletes and assisting them with college recruitment. She also interned with the Strength and Conditioning Department at the University of South Carolina, where she constructed workouts to improve speed and power of student-athletes.
Prior to her stint with the Elite, VanDerveer served as a coach for the New Jersey Intensity as well as mentor/instructor at Zoned Sports Academy in Bridgewater, N.J.
VanDerveer graduated from USC in December of 2018 with a degree in Criminal Justice. She concluded her two seasons as a Gamecock with 108 appearances and 103 starts, 76 hits, and 22 home runs—fifth most all-time in program history.
Before transferring to USC, she started all but two games in her Nittany Lion career. In Penn State softball program history she ranks fifth in home runs all-time (24), 11t in RBIs (94), 12t in batting average (.331), and tied for 13t in walks (53). Setting PSU's single-season RBI record as a sophomore with 50 RBIs, 10t in the Big Ten in 2016, helped her claim a spot on the All-Big Ten First Team. Some of her other accolades include Second Team All-SEC, Spring 2018 and First Team All-Region, Spring 2018.
