Brielle Pietrafesa - Assistant Softball Coach - Softball Coaches

Brielle Pietrafesa

Title:
Assistant Softball Coach
Email:
bp599@drexel.edu
Phone:
215-895-1837

Brielle Pietrafesa enters her fourth season as an assistant on Katie Jansson's staff at Drexel. Pietrafesa was named Assistant Coach of the Drexel University softball program in December of 2021. Pietrafesa works primarily with the outfielders and hitters.

Pietrafesa comes to the program after working for a year at Penn Hospital as a Patient Service Associate. She also was responsible for coaching the U18 South Jersey Mystics Softball team in Westhampton, N.J. During the 2019 and 2020 seasons, Pietrafesa worked as a volunteer assistant coach with the Villanova softball team where her main role was to provide extra help for athletes at practice, in-game and in the classroom.

Pietrafesa, a graduate of Hofstra University in 2018, was a reliable player on the Pride's softball team. She played in 198 games and started in 195 appearances, owning a batting average of .306 and a slugging percentage of .548. Pietrafesa also collected many accolades throughout her career, including Philadelphia Inquirer Softball Player of the Year in 2014, CAA All-Rookie team in 2015. In 2016, she was named to the All-CAA first team and was a third-team NFCA All-Northeast Region selection. In her junior and senior year of playing for Hofstra, Pietrafesa was named to the All-CAA second team twice and named as an NFCA All-Northeast Region first team recipient. In the classroom, she was named as an Academic All-American in 2016 and 2017.