Staff Directory

Jodie Ricciardi

Title:
Assistant Coach

Jodie Ricciardi returns for her fourth year at Princeton after coaching with several collegiate programs in the state.

Ricciardi works with the team’s slap hitters and outfielders. In 2005, Melissa Finley, Beth Dalmut and Stephanie Steel, the three Tigers who started the three NCAA tournament games in the outfield, combined for a .967 fielding percentage and had only six errors between them, regardless of position, with 13 assists. Last season, Ricciardi developed sophomore Brianna Moreno, a slap hitter, to enhance Princeton’s speed game. In the outfield, Kathryn Welch, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, and Steel and Dalmut, both recognized as second-team All-Ivy outfielders, had only one error among them in 115 chances.

Ricciardi spent two years as the assistant coach at Drew University from 1999-2001 and then moved on to The College of New Jersey, where she was a graduate assistant coach and earned a master’s degree in athletic administration.

A two-year captain, she graduated from Penn State with a B.A. in Parks and Recreation Tourism and as the career leader in stolen bases (99). She was the first Nittany Lion to earn All-Big Ten first team honors in 1998 and was named the Penn State Offensive Player of the Year in 1998.

Ricciardi, a native of Bethlehem, Pa., began an elementary health and physical education teaching position at Sharon Elementary in Mercer County's Washington Township school district.