Julia Kuhn is in her second season as an assistant coach of the New York University softball team. She primarily works with the Violets' infielders.
Last season, Kuhn helped lead the Violets to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Metro Championship. The young team, which consisted of 13 freshmen and only one senior, compiled a 25-16 record and finished the season on a nine-game winning streak. The squad also won its first-ever University Athletics Association (UAA) games in program history, defeating both Case Western Reserve University and the University of Rochester twice during the UAA Championship.
NYU, in only its second season as a varsity program, completed its historic campaign with a victory over Farleigh Dickinson University-Florham in the ECAC Championship Game. The Violets entered the fifth inning down 5-2 before rallying with two runs in the fifth and three in the sixth to win the game 7-5 and secure the first title in program history.
Prior to joining the NYU staff, Kuhn served as a softball coach for youth clinics at Northwestern University and Princeton University.
A 2015 Northwestern graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications sciences and disorders, Kuhn was a four-year member of the Wildcats’ softball team, playing primarily at first base. As a senior in, she was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches of America (NFCA) All-Region Third Team for the Great Lakes Region. Kuhn also garnered Academic All-Big Ten honors three times and was twice named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar.
Kuhn, who is currently pursuing a master’s degree in speech pathology at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Media, Culture, and Communications, is a native of Middletown, NJ, and resides in Manhattan.
