Melissa Mayeux joined the NSU softball coaching staff in August of 2023.
Mayeux reunites with Prejean after the two spent three years together as player and coach for UL Lafayette where Mayeux garnered Sun Belt Player of the Year honors in 2022.
A native of Le Barcares, France, Mayeux was a do-it-all utility player in her three seasons with the Rajun Cajuns, playing seven different positions on the field, including all five infield spots, while maintaining a near .300 batting average and .900-plus OPS at the plate.
In her Sun Belt Player of the Year senior season of 2022, Mayeux rose to the top of UL’s impact player list during a nine-game stretch in late March where she hit .440 with four home runs, a pair of doubles and nine RBI.
From that point forward she led the Cajuns in average (.336), runs (35), hits (42), doubles (12), home runs (6), RBI (29) and fielding percentage (.989) over a 28-game span to secure the Sun Belt’s top honor of the season.
Her award-winning season capped a career that included a total of 42 extra base hits, with at least one of each kind in each of her three seasons, accounting for nearly half of her 89 career hits. She also drove in a total of 75 runs and scored 74 across 129 games played and 110 starts as the Cajuns won back-to-back conference titles in her final two seasons in Lafayette.
A highly decorated player before ever arriving in Louisiana, Mayeux was a member of the French U-18 Junior National baseball team and at the age of 14 was accepted into one of only two baseball academies in France.
Two years later she became the first female player to be added to Major League Baseball’s International Registration List, thus making her the first female player eligible to be signed or drafted by an MLB club.
After deciding to play softball collegiately in the States, Mayeux began her career at Miami Dade College where she was a two-time All-Southern Conference player, led the team in average both years, hitting .431 during her sophomore campaign, and had 14 home runs, 31 doubles and 90 RBI in two seasons.
