Softball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- narias@princeton.edu
Nicole Arias joined the Princeton softball staff as an assistant coach prior to the 2015 season.
For eight seasons prior to coming to Princeton, Arias was the head softball coach at nearby West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, leading her team to the NJSIAA postseason in each of her last seven seasons while winning three Colonial Valley Conference divisional titles and a Mercer County Tournament title in 2009. Also while at WW-P South, Arias served as an assistant varsity and head junior varsity field hockey coach.
As a player, Arias competed collegiately at William Paterson University, starting at third base and as a backup catcher. William Paterson won NJAC titles in 2003 and 2005, an NCAA East Regional title in 2005 and a Division III College World Series appearance that season. Arias caught at WW-P South before heading to William Paterson, serving as team captain in the 2000 and 2001 seasons while earning first-team all-conference honors in 2001. Arias played club softball for the West Windsor Wildcats, the ASA Gold Middletown Magic, the Yardley Royal Ladies and the Madison Avenue Women's Team. Arias has also played for the USA Maccabi Women's National Softball Team, winning the gold medal at the 2007-08 Pan American Maccabi Games in Argentina and the 2009 and 2013 World Maccabi Games in Israel.
Arias, who graduated from William Paterson in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in exercise and movement science, is a health and physical education teacher at Community Middle School in Plainsboro, N.J. She is bronze-level certified by the National Federation of State High School Coaches, holds a Positive Coaching Alliance Double-Goal Coach certification, and is a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and the USA Field Hockey Coaches Association.
