Teresa Fister has coached five seasons at the helm of Greensboro College's softball program, growing the Pride as a contender in the USA South Athletic Conference.
A Bowling Green, Ky. native and long-time Greensboro resident, Fister has won 96 games as the Pride's head coach, posting the third-most wins as a coach in school history. She is poised to become Greensboro third head coach to post 100 or more career wins as the leader of the Pride's softball program.
Fister led the Pride in 2021 to their best winning percentage since 2007 by posting a 24-9 overall record (.727), the Pride's fourth winning season in the last five with Fister at the helm. The former Appalachian State pitcher led the Pride to the USA South's second-lowest ERA (2.31) and the league's most strikeouts (188) in 2021. Greensboro also led the league in batting average (.314) and the second-most RBI (153) as the Pride collected three All-USA South honors.
Greensboro competed amongst ranked teams in Fister's tenure. The Pride took both contests of the February 23, 2020 doubleheader against the University of Lynchburg, ranked in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division III Top 25 at the time. Those wins marked the high point of a pandemic-shortened season in 2020. In 2019, the Pride split a doubleheader at Randolph-Macon College, who later competed in the championship bracket of the NCAA Division III Softball Championship.
Fister's led the Pride to a 26-16 season in 2019, the program's most wins since 2010, with her pitchers posting the fourth-most strikeouts in the conference that season.
In her debut season as the Pride's head coach, Fister led the Pride to a 13-7 USA South record, one game out of achieving a tie for second place in the USA South East Division. The finish was the Pride's best finish in conference play since the 2011 season when the Pride finished with a 12-5 record in USA South play.
Prior to her stint at Greensboro, Fister was an assistant coach across the street at UNC-Greensboro. Fister helped Spartans head coach Janelle Breneman lead UNCG to a 33-26 overall record, helping fuel the rebuild of the UNCG program.Â
Prior to joining the Spartans staff, Fister coached Northwest Guilford High School where she began her coaching career as an assistant coach in 2011, before taking over the helm one season later.  Over the course of the next four seasons, Fister led the Vikings to four consecutive Piedmont Triad- 4A titles, while also earning Coach of the Year honors in 2012 and 2014.
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In her final season with the Vikings, Fister coached eight Piedmont Triad 4A All-Conference selections, including the Pitcher and Player of the Year.
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As a student-athlete at Appalachian State, Fister earned the Rick Edmunson Award and was on both the Student-Athlete and Southern Conference Honor Roll. Fister appeared in 80 contests for the Mountaineers in the circle, posting her lowest ERA her senior season in 2009. Upon her graduation, Fister ranked atop the Mountaineers all-time saves board (4), while ranking sixth in career strikeouts (107).
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