Alisa Goler Perrin enters her second season as an assistant coach for Penn State softball in 2020 after being hired by head coach Amanda Lehotak in June 2018.
Goler Perrin works primarily with the offense as the Nittany Lions’ hitting coach and assists with recruiting.
In her first season at Penn State in 2019, Goler Perrin led the Nittany Lion offense to a record-setting season. The Blue & White hit a program-record 49 home runs in 2019 while batting .261 as a team, the sixth-highest average in program history. The team also averaged a .427 slugging percentage, third-highest all-time.
Goler Perrin guided senior Toni Polk to hit 13 home runs in 2019 and second-team All-Big Ten honors after only hitting one in each of the previous three seasons. Freshman Chelsea Bisi also hit 13 home runs and was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team.
Prior to Penn State, Goler Perrin spent three seasons at Syracuse, most recently as the associate head coach. She served as the infield and hitting coach and the recruiting coordinator for the Orange.
Under Goler Perrin’s direction, the Orange set three single-season team offensive records in 2017, including batting average (.307), hits (433), and on-base percentage (.388). The 2017 season also saw a single-season record for fielding percentage (.976).
At Syracuse, Goler Perrin helped coach 2017 NFCA All-American Sydney O’Hara who boasted a .476 batting average, .626 on-base percentage and .833 slugging percentage to set single-season Orange records. In the 2018 season, Goler Perrin helped junior Bryce Holmgren lead the ACC is both batting average (.413) and on-base percentage (.549).
Goler Perrin served as the hitting coach and aided in local recruiting at Roosevelt University from 2014-15. Goler Perrin also spent seven seasons (2011-18) in the National Pro Fastpitch League where she was named Rookie of the Year in 2011 and was a two-time All-NPF Team honoree.
As a student-athlete at Georgia, Goler Perrin was a three-time All-American, four-time first-team All-Southeast Region selection, and three-time first-team All-SEC honoree. She set UGA single-season records for batting average (.455), slugging percentage (.994), on-base percentage (.551), home runs (24), extra-base hits (41), RBI (83), and total bases (164).
Off the field Goler Perrin was a four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll member and a member of the SEC Community Service Team. She earned first-team Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award honors and CoSIDA Academic All-District first-team honors in 2011.
Goler Perrin graduated from Georgia in December 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in recreation and leisure studies and a master’s of education in the same field in May 2012.
Goler Perrin and her husband, Steve Perrin, reside in State College.
