The winningest coach in the history of the Bryant University softball program, Coach Lisa-Ann Wallace has taken the Bulldogs to heights never seen prior to her arrival. As she looks to her 12th season as head coach in the spring of 2012, Wallace will look to assure that Bryant will need minimal adjustment time when it becomes a full-time Division I program in 2012-13.

Amongst Wallace's many accomplishments during her time with the Black and Gold was the program's extraordinary run during its final few years in the Northeast-10 Conference (D-II). Coach Wallace led Bryant to five-straight NCAA tournament appearances, two times serving as regional hosts during that stretch, in addition to a pair of conference championship titles, three conference players of the year and one conference pitcher of the year. 

In addition to the success on the diamond, Wallace's student-athletes have also succeeded in the classroom as well, including numerous academic all-conference recognitions and scholar-athlete awards and one NCAA Woman of the Year Honoree. 

Recently wrapping up the program's third season competing at the D-I level, Wallace made huge strides as the Bulldogs finished the 2011 campaign with a record of 25-19, with a 14-6 mark in the Northeast Conference that was good for a second-place tie at the end of the regular season.  During the program's most successful season in Divsion I to date, Bryant picked up non-conference wins over Utah Valley, Detroit, Lafayette, Yale and Harvard before the start of conference play.  Highlighting the team's best season at the Division I level yet was Wallace's 300th victory behind the bench.

Several individuals were honored for their strong play in 2011, including three players being named to the All-NEC Second Team, two NEC Player of the Week recipients, and three NEC Rookie of the Week winners.

From 2009-2010, Coach Wallace and her staff led the Bulldogs to 19 wins. The Bulldogs’ 2010 season was highlighted by season-sweeps of both Saint Francis (PA) and Holy Cross, the first NEC accolade and a sophomore finish in the top-10 for overall batting average.

Bryant defeated Saint Francis (PA) 6-0 and 8-5 in back-to-back games and later dropped Holy Cross by a margin of 7-2 for the second time of the season. Freshman Brittany Lischinsky made Bryant softball history by picking up the program’s first-ever NEC accolade. Following the Saint Francis (PA) doubleheader, in which she went a combined 5-8 with a homerun, four RBIs and three runs scored, Lischinsky was named NEC Rookie of the Week. The freshman finished the season ranked second on the team with a batting average of .296.

The 2010 season also saw sophomore Laura Bowen finish 10th in the NEC in batting average (.344) and third in the conference in single-season doubles (17). Bowen’s 17 doubles also moved her into second place in the Bryant all-time record book. The Hudson, Mass. native led the Bulldogs in nearly every statistical category including: batting average (.344), at-bats (131), runs scored (20), hits (45), doubles (17), homeruns (3), RBIs (18), total bases (71), slugging percentage (.542), walks drawn (19) and on-base percentage (.442).

The years of Division II came to a conclusion in fine fashion in 2008. The Bulldogs enjoyed a 30-16 record and again reached the NE-10 Conference tournament final series thanks to the masterful pitching of NE-10 Pitcher of the Year Janine Enos and qualified for the school's fifth-straight NCAA tournament.

After inheriting a team that went 4-37 in 2000, Wallace and assistant Nancy Burgess took the Bulldogs from perennial conference cellar-dwellers to a conference powerhouse.

"It's been a privilege to coach here at Bryant," said Wallace." These student-athletes over the past nine years have created a tradition of winning both in the classroom and on the field. All incoming freshman should be honored to put on a Bryant uniform and continue the winning tradition."

Prior to her arrival, the Bulldogs suffered through a 4-37 (1-17 in conference) season in 2000, but in Wallace's first year, the Bulldogs improved to 14-40 in 2001 and 22-24 in 2002. The turnaround certainly didn't go unnoticed as she was named the 2002 Northeast-10 Coach of the Year by her colleagues.

But it was in 2004 that saw the program take a major step forward, not just within the conference, but on a regional level as well.  Finishing 20-8 in the NE-10, the Bulldogs were honored with not only its first-ever NCAA tournament berth, but the right to host the tournament at the Bryant Softball Complex.   

A year later in 2005, the Bulldogs finished with a 22-6 conference record and captured the Northeast-10 Conference tournament title for the first time and saw three student-athletes earn all-conference honors.   

The 2006 season saw Bryant capture its first-ever Northeast-10 regular season and second consecutive conference tournament championship with a 23-5 conference record (29-18 overall). With it, the Bulldogs headed off to yet another NCAA tournament and collected some serious hardware along the way as seven Bulldogs garnered all-conference honors by the Northeast-10.  

In 2007, the Bulldogs made their fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, held at C.W. Post's campus in Brookville, NY. The Bulldogs defeated East Coast Conference champion Dowling College, the Northeast-10 Tournament champ UMass-Lowell and regional powerhouse Adelphi before coming up just short to host C.W. Post in the regional finals. It was the furthest the Bulldogs had ever advanced in the NCAA Tournament.

During a four-year span, Bryant captured four major conference awards, including three NE-10 Conference Players of the Year. Infielder Deidre Kittridge, catcher Jordan Dargon and centerfielder Amanda Wilbur would win three consecutive conference player of the year honors from 2005-2007. A year later, in the Bulldogs’ last season at the DII level, Janine Enos was awarded the conference pitcher of the year award to make it four-straight.

In her 11 seasons at Bryant (eight as a member of the Northeast-10 Conference), Wallace coached a total of 27 all-conference selections. In the six years before her arrival, only one Bulldog made the all-conference team (Lauren Smolinsky in 1995).

A 1987 graduate of Westfield State (Mass.), where she was an all-conference catcher, Wallace started her head coaching career at Fitchburg State (Mass.) in 1995 and needed just three years to set the Falcons' single-season record for victories.

Her 1998 team finished 21-14-1, and Wallace was recognized as the Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for her efforts.

In 2000, Wallace and Fitchburg State registered the highest winning percentage of any college softball team in New England, as the Falcons compiled a 20-5 mark and placed second in the MASCAC behind perennial Division III power Bridgewater State.

Wallace left Fitchburg State as the winningest coach in the program's history.