BALTIMORE – Coppin State assistant softball coach
Nerissa Myers capped off her professional playing career with a home run during the final game of the Athletes Unlimited season on Monday evening. Myers announced her retirement as a player following the game after drawing a league-high 13 walks during the season.
Myers, who is entering her second season as an assistant with the Eagles in 2021, began her professional career in 2013 with the Chicago Bandits of National Pro Fastpitch before playing with the Akron Racers in 2014. Myers was named the NPF Offensive Player of the Year with the Racers after leading the league in RBI (43) and slugging percentage (.599).
The following season, Myers once again led the league in RBI while ranking second in slugging, on-base percentage, and home runs. In 2016, Myers was selected to the All-NPF Team once again while ranking first in doubles, second in on-base percentage, third in batting average, fourth in slugging and fifth in runs scored. In her final NPF season in 2017, Myers helped the Scrap Yard Dawgs, a franchise based just outside of Houston, to a league title.
A native of Petal, Miss., Myers later played professionally in Italy before joining the Great Britain National Team in 2018. While overseas, Myers led her squad to the Championship Game of the Europe and Africa Olympic qualifier in 2019.
As a student-athlete at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Myers was a three-time All-Sun Belt selection who twice earned NFCA All-Region honors while also being named an NFCA All-American in 2012. Upon graduation, Myers held the Ragin Cajun' career record with 243 runs scored.
Immediately following her collegiate career, Myers served as a graduate assistant coach at Louisiana in 2015 before serving as a hitting coach at George Washington University in 2016. While at GW, the Colonials ranked second Nationally in triples and in the Top 25 of the NCAA in doubles. Myers also coached the Scrap Yard Internationals Travel Team for nearly three years.
