Megan Smith Lyon, a 17-year head coaching veteran and Carolina alumna, has been hired as the University of North Carolina's new softball coach. Smith Lyon comes to Chapel Hill after five years at Marshall.
The fourth head coach in Carolina Softball history, Papa won Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season titles and Coach-of-the-Year honors five times and led the Tar Heels to 15 NCAA Tournament appearances.
“It’s been a little run here near the end; hopefully we learned something,” head coach Donna J. Papa said. “Our destiny is kind of in our own hands.”