Lebanon Valley College Athletics

Stacey Hollinger was promoted to the position of Associate Director of Athletics at Lebanon Valley College in the spring of 2016.

As Associate Director of Athletics, her primary duties involve working as LVC’s NCAA Compliance Coordinator. She is also the College’s Deputy Title IX Administrator.

Hollinger oversees department-wide assessment and data collection, budget management, coordination of facilities and athletic events, scheduling, and contracts, and serves as the department’s Senior Women’s Administrator. After an incredibly successful career at the helm of the softball program, Hollinger is Lebanon Valley’s all-time winningest and was the program’s longest-tenured, Softball Coach. 

During her 18 seasons, Hollinger built LVC into a national contender, winning four MAC Commonwealth Championships and guiding the Dutchmen to five NCAA Division III Tournament appearances. The eight-time MAC Commonwealth Coach of the Year is LVC’s all-time wins leader (428), having produced 68 all-conference honorees, including eight MAC Commonwealth Players and Pitchers of the Year. 

Finishing with a career record of 428-304-1 at LVC, Hollinger is also the program’s all-time winningest coach by a wide margin. Hollinger guided Lebanon Valley to unprecedented success for over a decade, during which the program won all four of its conference championships and made five trips to the NCAA Tournament.

An eight-time MAC Commonwealth Coach of the Year, including five of her final seven seasons, Hollinger guided the Dutchmen to the 2008, 2013, 2014, and 2015 conference titles and five NCAA appearances.

Hollinger led the Dutchmen to another winning record during her final season and saw a number of players earn a plethora of individual accolades following the 2016 campaign. Sammy Bost made history under her tutelage when she earned three all-America awards in the same season. The outstanding center fielder earned NFCA First Team All-America honors, CoSIDA Academic All-America First-Team status, and Hero Sports D3 All-America recognition. Bost was one of 10 finalists for the inaugural NFCA/Schutt Sports Division III National Player of the Year award after she was named the MAC Player of the Year for the second time and was named NFCA First Team All-Region. Catcher Emily Johnson and left fielder Cheyanne Brown joined Bost as NFCA All-Region honorees, while all three players, along with designated player Jordyn Miller, were named MAC Commonwealth All-Conference.

The 2015 season saw Hollinger lead LVC to a MAC Commonwealth Championship three-peat, as the Dutchmen put together an incredible run to their third straight league title in the conference's postseason tournament. Despite entering the weekend as the tourney's No. 4 seed, Lebanon Valley twice knocked off Messiah, a squad previously undefeated in conference play, and defeated Widener in back-to-back outings on Championship Sunday to earn the trophy and the program's fifth trip to the NCAA Tournament. Pitcher Haley Neff was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player (MVP), while Tessa Deardorff '15 led off the deciding game with an inside-the-park home run, and Jordyn Miller cranked a pair of homers to seal the victory. Sammy Bost was named an NFCA All-American for the second straight season, while Deardorff joined her as MAC Commonwealth First Team All-Conference selections. Emily Johnson also earned All-Conference honors with an Honorable Mention nod. Hollinger also recorded the 400th win of her career in the spring of 2015.

In 2014, Lebanon Valley boasted the Commonwealth Conference Player and Rookie of the Year Sammy Bost (the first player in conference history to win both) and Pitcher of the Year Sam Derr as the Dutchmen went 32-4 in the regular season and reached the highest national ranking in program history at No. 12. LVC was the final unbeaten team in the nation, opening the season with a program-record 19-game win streak. Bost and Derr became the program's first-ever NFCA All-Americans, while Derr and Katie Deardorff '14 were the team's first Academic All-Americans.

In 2013, the Dutchmen set a record for wins in a season at 36-7-1, going to the NCAA regional final for the first time in program history. Under her guidance, the Dutchmen produced five All-CC players, including Pitcher of the Year Derr - the third consecutive LVC hurler to win the award.

Hollinger won her 300th game at LVC in 2012 - a season in which her team finished 25-15 and qualified for a spot in the Commonwealth Conference tournament for the fifth straight year. In addition to her own Coach of the Year honor, Hollinger had five players named All-Conference, including Rookie of the Year Tessa Deardorff and Pitcher of the Year Kristen Palmerio.

Posting a 29-9 overall record in 2011, the Dutchmen went on to claim the top seed in the conference tournament after an 11-3 mark in CC play. Hollinger had seven players named to the All-Conference team, including Player of the Year Meghan Donoghue, Pitcher of the Year Laura Snyder, and Rookie of the Year Allie Hartman.

In 2010, she took the Dutchmen back to the NCAA Tournament and made a deep run into the regional play, including an upset of No. 6 Cortland as LVC earned its first-ever national ranking and finished the season with a program-best 34-13 record and ranked No. 21 by the NFCA.

The team’s memorable 2008 run saw LVC break several records behind the slugging and pitching of five First Team All-Commonwealth players. LVC won the Commonwealth Conference tournament at home in dramatic fashion, advancing to the championship game with a pair of five-inning mercy-rule wins before defeating Elizabethtown with a four-run, seventh-inning rally in the championship game. For her efforts, she was named the conference Coach of the Year.

In 2006, Hollinger directed her team to its second straight record-breaking season, when it finished 29-12 and set a single-season school record for victories. Just one year earlier, Hollinger’s club established a school record for wins in a season after going 27-12. Her 2005 team also set an LVC single-season record for conference victories, as the Flying Dutchmen finished 11-3 in Commonwealth Conference regular season games. She was honored with her second Coach of the Year honor that season, as she was named Commonwealth Conference Co-Coach of the Year.

Hollinger, who was named as an Assistant Athletic Director at LVC in June 2006,  led the Valley to three Commonwealth Conference playoff appearances in a row from 2004 through 2006. In 2004 and 2006, her teams came within one win of a Commonwealth Conference tournament title and gaining a berth in the NCAA Division III tournament. In both of those seasons, LVC fought its way back through the loser’s bracket of the double-elimination Commonwealth tournament to force a winner-take-all championship game.

In 2001, Hollinger received her first Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year award for leading LVC to its first postseason playoff berth and conference championship game appearance in school history. That season, the Valley went 19-16 overall and 8-6 in the Commonwealth.

Hollinger, who also served as an Assistant Field Hockey Coach at LVC from 1994-2005, coached softball for two years at Franklin & Marshall College before coming to the Valley. Prior to her stint at F&M, Hollinger was an Assistant Coach for both Millersville’s softball and field hockey teams from 1989-1994.

As an Assistant Coach with Lebanon Valley's Field Hockey team, Hollinger was involved in the program’s back-to-back NCAA final four appearances in 1996 and 1997, and helped coach LVC to seven NCAA appearances overall.

Hollinger distinguished herself as a softball and field hockey standout at Millersville University, where she was a First Team Regional All-American softball player in 1986 and 1987. Hollinger earned Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference All-Star honors in softball and still is ranked among Millersville’s top 10 as a career .343 hitter and .978 fielder.

In field hockey, Hollinger was a member of the 1989 Millersville squad that finished second in the country. She also helped the Marauder field hockey squad to four straight NCAA tournament appearances. She graduated with a bachelor’s in Education and Mathematics in 1989.

Hollinger was inducted into the Millersville University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002. She resides in Lancaster, Pa.