Brad Fuller, husband of head coach Jenny Fuller, joins the NSU softball staff with his wife and will serve as the Demons’ associate head coach.
Brad is a 10-year coaching veteran that has worked hand-in-hand with Jenny since their time at Cardinal Stritch, an NAIA school in Milwaukee, Wis.Â
In two seasons there, four at Northern State in Aberdeen, S.D. and three seasons at Pittsburg State, Brad has helped develop four all-Americans, seven all-region and more than 20 all-conference players.
An astute offensive mind, Fuller has seen his teams and individual players have success at the plate at all of his coaching stops.
Fuller helped Aly Delafield produce the highest conference batting average (.398) by a Demon in 10 years in his first season at NSU. She was one of 12 players in the league to finish with an OPS over 1.000 for the season.
In his first season at Pittsburg State in 2022, the Gorillas saw a 55-point increase in their team batting average and scored nearly 100 more runs from the previous year. They also saw a more than 100-point increase in slugging with 50 more home runs and 96 more extra-base hits.
In Fuller’s first season, the Gorillas had more doubles (103) than it did total extra-base hits (84) the previous season.
Fuller’s work at the plate helped produce some of the best offensive numbers in the country during the record-setting 2024 season for the Gorillas.
The PSU bats finished seventh in nation with 579 total hits, with the 10th highest team batting average in the country at .348. They were also ranked 15th in the country in runs scored, crossing the plate 394 times on the year for an average of 6.4 runs per game.
They garnered a first-team all-American, three third-team all-Americans, the Central Region Player of the Year, two first-team all-region and one second-team all-region selections along with four first-team all-conference honors during the 2024 season.
The Gorillas finished the 2024 season winners of a conference title, hosting an NCAA Regional, ranked No. 14 in the country and broke 10 different team records, including wins (53), consecutive wins (22), conference wins (23), runs (394), RBI (346) and stolen bases (104).
In his four years at Northern, Brad helped guide Kennady Thompson to both single-season and career home run records and set new team records for hits and home runs during his time.
In his second season at Cardinal Stritch, the Wolves ranked in the top 15 in all of NAIA in batting average, hitting at a .339 clip, and in hits per game at nearly 10 per contest. Three seasons later at Northern State, those Wolves increased both their slugging and on-base percentages by more than 60 points in the NCAA rankings by the end of the 2020 season.
Brad has also been instrumental in his player’s success off the field helping the maintain cumulative team GPAs of 3.5 in all of his previous three coaching jobs. More than 40 players have earned conference academic honor roll honors with multiple academic all-conference winners and academic all-American honors.
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