Stony Brook University Athletics

Bryant Year-By-Year Records

Megan T. Bryant was named Stony Brook's head softball coach in 2001. A three-time America East Coach of the Year (2009, 2012 & 2014), Bryant is the winningest manager in program history with 691 career victories in her 25 years at the helm of the Seawolves. Across her full 38-year coaching career she has totaled 1035 victories. Under Bryant, Stony Brook has finished with 30 wins or more 11 times.

OnApril 17, 2024, Bryant reached a major milestone as she earned the 1,000th win of her head coaching career in a doubleheader sweep of Fairleigh Dickinson. The victory was No. 656 at Stony Brook in her 24th season with the program. Prior to Stony Brook, Bryant won 281 games at Drake and 63 at Stetson.

The 2025 season saw the Seawolves post a 25-25 overall record and an 18-9 conference mark to enter the CAA tournament as the No. 5 seed. The Seawolves went on to fall to No. 4 Hampton and No. 6 Hofstra to end their time in the tournament. Under Bryant's leadership, five Seawolves would take home All-CAA honors in 2025: Kyra McFarland (First Team), Alyssa Costello (First Team), Emily Reinstein (Second Team), Emma Scheitinger (Second Team), and Nicole Allen (All-Rookie). Costello also took home NFCA Northeast All-Region First Team honors for the second time in her career.

Under Bryant's guidance, the Seawolves took a major step up in year two as a member of the CAA in 2024. The Seawolves won 35 games, the second-most in a single season in program history, earning the No. 3 seed in the CAA Championship. Stony Brook toppled Hofstra to advance before falling to Delaware and Hofstra and being eliminated from the tournament. During the season, the Seawolves won a program record 18 straight games from March 29 to April 26, which stood as the longest winning streak in the nation at that time. Stony Brook closed out the regular season with a program record 18 road wins as well.

The Seawolves had three players collect All-CAA honors in 2024: Kyra McFarland (First Team), Alyssa Costello (Second Team) and Catherine Anne Kupinski (Second Team). Kupinski and McFarland also earned NFCA All-Region distinction. 

In year one as a member of the CAA, Bryant guided the Seawolves to a 29-27 record, with a 10-13 mark in league play. Stony Brook earned the No. 7 seed in the 2023 CAA Championship, taking victories over No. 1 Delaware, No. 2 UNCW, No. 4 Elon and No. 6 Charleston. Under Bryant's tutelage, Costello was selected to the All-Conference First Team, CAA Softball All-Tournament Team, NFCA Division I All-Region Team, earned multiple CAA Player of the Week recognitions, and was named the SUNY Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

In 2022, the Seawolves finished with a final record of 31-16 (.660), the program's most wins since the 2012 season when the team finished 36-17-1 (.676). Corinne Badger became the first student-athlete in program history to claim the National Player of the Week honor after a historic weekend at the FIU Tournament (Feb. 25-27). Dawn Bodrug and Badger were named to the NFCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region Team. Bodrug recorded four no-hitters, tossed 22 complete games, and 10 shutouts.

After having their season cut short in 2020, Stony Brook returned to the field in 2021 and got off to a hot start, sweeping the Winthrop Kickoff Tournament to take hold of a 4-0 record. Bryant led the Seawolves back to the conference tournament and to the finals after taking down No. 2 seeded UAlbany. Unfortunately, the rematch of the 2019 AE Championships did not fall in favor of Stony Brook, as UMBC bested the Seawolves 1-0 in the finals. Bodrug recorded the season's only no-hitter and second of her career against Binghamton on March 27.

Stony Brook got off to its best start in 29 years in 2020, winning its first seven games en route to a 10-4 record. Though the season was cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Seawolves broke onto the national stage, becoming the last unbeaten team in the country. The Seawolves led the America East in ERA (1.76), strikeouts (105), fielding percentage (0.995) and more. In the shortened season, JUCO transfer Dawn Bodrug tossed the program's first perfect game in eight years and Jourdin Hering hit for the cycle.

In 2019, Bryant led the Seawolves back to the conference tournament, besting UMass Lowell, 2-1 before falling in the finals to UMBC. The softball program finished with a final record of 32-19, its best record since 2014. It was the program's 11th winning campaign in its last 13 years. The Seawolves had their third America East Player of the Year in the past five seasons in junior Marissa Rahrich. The P/1B was named to the NFCA All-Region team and was a First Team All-Conference selection for the second year in a row.

Bryant recorded her 500th career win with the Seawolves on May 9, 2018, guiding the program past UMBC, 5-1, in the America East Championships. She recorded her 800th career victory as a collegiate head coach on May 6, 2016 with an 8-0 win over in-state rival Albany, making her the 25th coach in NCAA Division 1 history to surpass the 800-win plateau.

Stony Brook went 25-22 (10-7 AE) in 2018, going 2-2 in conference postseason play. Under Bryant, four Seawolves earned America East All-Conference awards in 2018: Melissa Rahrich - America East Player of the Year/First Team, Irene Rivera - First Team, Nicole McCarvill - Second Team/All-Rookie, Katelyn Corr - All-Academic. Rahrich also became the 12th player in program history to earn an NFCA All-Region selection.

Under Bryant's leadership, the program has tallied a winning conference record in 12 of the last 13 seasons. Bryant guided the Seawolves to a winning America East record in 16 of their 20 years in the conference. 

She made school history in 2008 when she led the Seawolves to their first-ever America East Championship and into the NCAA Tournament. In the opening round at the Tempe Regional, Stony Brook faced the eventual national champion, Arizona State, and gave the Sun Devils all they could handle in a 2-0 defeat.

Bryant again led the team to the NCAA Tournament in 2013 after an improbable run through the America East Tournament. The Seawolves lost their opening game of the competition, before winning four straight elimination games, including two against top-seed Albany to clinch the title. Stony Brook became just the second team in America East Tournament history to win the championship after losing its first game. After winning the title, Stony Brook was sent to the Columbia Regional where it faced No. 6 overall seed Missouri and Oregon State.

In 2009, Bryant coached the Seawolves to the school's first America East regular season title and a program-best 36 wins. For her efforts, Bryant was named the 2009 America East Coach of the Year. She has since gone on to receive the award in 2012 after another 36-win campaign and in 2014 after guiding the Seawolves to 34 wins and a regular-season crown. They also won the 2015 regular-season title under her leadership.

Prior to Stony Brook, Bryant served as the head coach at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1988-99. Before Bryant's arrival, the Bulldogs had endured five straight losing seasons and three straight last-place finishes in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). After a 13-44 finish her first season, Bryant led Drake to a 33-24 overall record and a 10-6 mark in the MVC in 1990, earning her MVC Coach of the Year accolades. In 1993, just four years after her arrival, Drake won both the MVC regular season and tournament titles while compiling a 35-16 record (13-3 MVC), the most wins in a season in school history. Bryant once again received MVC Coach of the Year honors. In 1994, Drake repeated as MVC Tournament champions and obtained a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs registered winning records six times and finished in the top four in the MVC five times in the last eight seasons of Bryant’s tenure.

Bryant began her college coaching career at Stetson University in Deland, Fla., where she compiled a 63-40 record as head coach from 1985-87. Bryant inherited a program that had begun just one season before her arrival. In her first season she led Stetson to the New South Women's Athletic Conference championship in 1986, receiving NSWAC Coach of the Year honors. Stetson repeated as NSWAC champions in 1987. 

Bryant has also served as an assistant coach at both Furman University in Greenville, S.C., in 1988 and at St. John's University.

Before coaching at the collegiate level, Bryant spent four years as a physical education instructor and head coach at Lakeland High School in Shrub Oak, N.Y., from 1981-85.

In addition to her coaching experience, Bryant has also served on two NCAA Certification Review Equity Subcommittees and as a member of the NCAA Division I Softball Midwest Region Committee. Bryant currently serves as the head coach representative on Stony Brook University's Intercollegiate Athletics Board and was previously involved with the USAToday/NFCA Top 25 Coaches Poll.

Bryant graduated from the University of Bridgeport in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in physical education, K-12. She competed in both volleyball and softball at Bridgeport.

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