Alma Mater: Rowan University '15
Season as Head Coach: 6th (including 2024)
Record at New Paltz: 127-62-1 (.668)
SUNYAC Tournament Appearances: 4 (2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
SUNYAC Championships: 1 (2024)
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2024)
Since taking over the Hawks softball program ahead of the 2019 season, head coach Krysti Neufeldt (Maronski) has transcended the program into the upper echelon of the SUNYAC and Region III. She's became the first coach in program history to have back-to-back 30-plus win seasons after a 36-8 finish in 2024 where she led the team to its consecutive regular season SUNYAC title en route to the program's first ever SUNYAC Championship and NCAA Tournament run. She was also the fastest coach in program history to surpass 100-career wins (and just the second to do so), after compiling three-straight winning seasons and four of her six (with the other two shortened due to COVID-19).
Neufeldt coached the program's first back-to-back SUNYAC Pitcher of the Year recipient in Lindsay Roman, while also having garnered six All-SUNYAC selections and her second-straight SUNYAC Coach of the Year honor after re-setting the program record for total wins (36) and conference wins (17). Additionally, she coached two All-Region selections in Roman and sophomore Jaycee Filancia.
In 2023, Neufeldt (Maronski) led the Hawks to the best season in program history, setting program records in total wins (31) and conference wins (16). The Hawks earned the first seed and hosted the SUNYAC Tournament for the first time. Neufeldt (Maronski) coached seven players to All-SUNYAC honors, including both Player of the Year Jackie Rometo, and Pitcher of the Year Lindsay Roman. She and her coaching staff earned SUNYAC Coach of the Year honors being the first in program history to receive the honor.
Neufeldt (Maronski) completed her fourth season as head softball coach at SUNY New Paltz in 2022, leading the Hawks to its second SUNYAC Tournament appearance in the last four seasons. After guiding the program to the most wins in its history in 2019, Neufeldt (Maronski) set a new mark in in 2022 with the team finishing with a program-most 27 wins and matching the most wins against SUNYAC competition at 12-6. She also guided the Hawks to two playoff wins, the first time the team has won more than one game in SUNYAC Tournament history, and an first appearance in the semifinal round.
In 2019, Neufeldt (Maronski) led SUNY New Paltz to a No. 3 seed in the SUNYAC playoffs, while helping the team earn regional rankings in her first season, moving all the way to No. 7 in the NCAA Northeast Region poll. The Hawks defeated SUNY Oneonta in the first round of the conference tournament, before falling to SUNY Geneseo and Oswego State to end the year. She guided two players to All-SUNYAC selections, while having three players claim SUNYAC Weekly honors throughout the year.
Neufeldt (Maronski) previously coached the South Jersey Gators Travel Softball team from 2015-18. From 2014-18, she was the assistant softball coach at her alma mater, Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, where she had many responsibilities including calling pitches in-game, managing the pitching staff, recruiting, and running the teams social media account, among others.
During her four seasons at Rowan, she helped lead the team to two NJAC tournament championships in 2016 and 2018, in those same two years, Maronski’s team won a NCAA Super Regional Championship, and finished in third place in the nation in the NCAA National Championship. She also brought Rowan a Regular Season NJAC Championship in 2015 and 2016. Over her four years, she coached numerous award winners including 20 NJAC All Conference recipients, 14 NFCA All-Region recipients, and five NFCA All-Americans.
She began her softball career in 2010 during her Freshman year of college as a pitcher at Rider University. In 2012, she transferred to Rowan University, where she would take home many awards including being named NJAC All-Conference and the Most Outstanding Player at the 2014 NCAA Ithaca Regional Tournament. She is the Rowan record holder for career ERA and strikeout-ratio, single-season strikeouts and strikeout-ratio, and single-game strikeouts (all as a pitcher).
At Rowan, Neufeldt (Maronski) earned a bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science from in 2015. In 2017, Maronski got her master’s in athletic administration from Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina.
Contact Krysti Neufeldt (Maronski) at ext. 3911 or maronskk@newpaltz.edu.
