Mysha Sataraka enters her third season as an assistant coach with the Penn State softball program in the 2025 campaign after head coach Clarisa Crowell welcomed her to the staff in July 2022.
In her second year with the program in 2024, Sataraka helped steer Penn State to its third-winningest season in program history, booking a 35-20 overall record and 12-11 ledger against Big Ten Conference competition while simultaneously helping spearhead the first NCAA Tournament campaign in Happy Valley in 13 years. Penn State’s 2024 season marked the first NCAA Regional bid since 2011, with the Nittany Lions earning a spot in the Bryan-College Station Regional, dropping a pair of games to Texas State with a landmark win over UAlbany in the first elimination game of the bracket.
PSU booked three consecutive 30-win seasons for the first time since rattling off five straight from 1999 to 2003, while recording three straight B1G campaigns at or above .500 for the first time in school history. The Nittany Lions recorded their first NCAA Tournament win since 2011 in the process. With Sataraka playing a pivotal role, PSU's 60th varsity team brought the all-time Nittany Lion record in the NCAA Division I Softball Tournament to 13-22, winning at least one game in a national postseason tournament for just the eighth time in program history.
Sataraka joined a staff that saw four student-athletes land All-Big Ten accolades in the postseason, highlighted by unanimous First Team selection and B1G Freshman of the Year, Bridget Nemeth. PSU saw Nemeth join teammates Maddie Gordon and Gaby Garcia as NFCA All-Great Lakes Region selections, one of the most prolific postseason award lists in recent Penn State history. The Nittany Lions also managed to land four B1G Athlete of the Week awards, 13 Academic All-Big Ten selections, five B1G Distinguished Scholar honors and five College Sports Communicators Academic All-District selections in PSU’s landmark 2024 campaign.
In 2023, Sataraka helped guide Penn State to back-to-back 30-win seasons for the first time since 2005-06, assisting the Nittany Lion staff en route to a 31-16 finish overall with an 11-11 mark in Big Ten Conference play. The Nittany Lions’ finish in the conference’s regular season ensured that PSU would finish at-or-above .500 in league play for the first time since the 2005 and 2006 teams accomplished that feat.
Her first season with the Blue & White saw the program secure a trio of All-Big Ten accolades with Emily Maddock landing a First Team selection while Lexie Black and Bailey Parshall brought home Second Team recognition. In the classroom, PSU tallied 18 Academic All-Big Ten honors, 12 Easton/NFCA Scholar Athlete recognitions and five College Sports Communicators Academic All-District accolades. Additionally, Black garnered both the Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarship and Big Ten Medal of honor in recognition of her work on and off the field of play.
A former NFCA All-American and three-time All-Pac-12 selection as a player at UCLA, Sataraka joined Penn State from Loyola Marymount where she was an assistant coach for two seasons.
Prior to coaching, Sataraka was a standout athlete at UCLA, where she led the Bruins to the College World Series in 2015 and 2016. Her senior season, Sataraka went .380 at the plate, while posting 15 home runs and 59 RBIs, which earned her NFCA All-America second team honors.
The infielder was also named All-Pac-12 First Team and NFCA All-West Region first team, totaling three Pac-12 recognitions and two NFCA All-West Region honors during her collegiate career.
Sataraka also brings national team experience with her to Penn State. In the summer of 2013, Sataraka was a member of the USA Softball Junior Women’s National Team. The team went on to earn a silver medal at the ISF Junior Women’s World Championship. In 2016, she rostered with the USA Softball Women's Elite Team at the World Cup of Softball XI.
After her collegiate career, Sataraka spent the four years as an assistant coach for Cal State Northridge before joining the LMU staff as an assistant coach in November 2020. She helped coach LMU to a WCC championship and the NCAA Regionals in 2022.
Sataraka graduated from UCLA in 2016 with a degree in political science and is a native of Honolulu, Hawaii.