Megan Smith Lyon recently completed her third season leading the Marshall softball team after being hired as the program’s fourth head coach on July 25, 2018.  In 2021, the Herd finished 20-13.  Smith Lyon became the fastest to reach 50 wins in program history, needing just 76 games to get there, as she earned her 50th at Marshall with a dominating 8-0 win in five innings over Rhode Island on Feb. 23, 2020.   Her first season with the Herd was a record-breaking one along with leading the team to the Conference USA Championship game for the first time since 2014 as the No. 4 seed in the tournament.  Following the 3-1 championship game loss to No. 2 seed Louisiana Tech, Marshall received an invite to the National Invitational Softball Championship and played in the Lynchburg, Va., Regional.  She, sported a career record of 393-265 prior to coming to Marshall, leading the Kansas Jayhawks to six consecutive 30-win seasons and back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 2014 and 2015 during her nine seasons at the helm. 

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