Gettysburg College Athletics

AT A GLANCE

• Head coach from 2023-25
• 2014 graduate of Gettysburg
• Claimed 2024 Centennial Conference championship and NCAA regional appearance
• Earned program's first-ever NCAA at-large bid in 2025, hosting and winning a regional for the first time
• Led the NFCA Region V Coaching Staff of the Year in 2025
• Coached the 2023, 2024 and 2025 Centennial Conference Pitcher of the Year
• Coaches program's first-ever All-Americans in 2025 (Paige Forry and Audrey Bergan)
• Recorded her 100th career victory with an 11-0 win at Mary Washington on Mar. 18, 2023

AT GETTYSBURG

Kalman completed her third season at the helm of the Gettysburg softball program in 2025 after returning to her alma mater to take the reins for the 2023 season. In her three seasons, she posted a 93-35-1 record that included a 37-11 mark in conference games.

In her first season as the head coach of the Orange and Blue, Kalman guided the team to a 24-14-1 record for the most wins since 2018 and into the Centennial Conference (CC) tournament. She mentored both the conference Player (Giovanna Komst ’24) and Pitcher (Paige Forry ’25) of the Year. Her pitching staff led the conference in earned-run average (2.83), strikeouts (209), strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.19), shutouts (9) and WHIP (1.43). The Bullets placed five players on the all-conference team and three on the all-region team that included a pair of first-team honorees for the first time in program history.

Her second season brought a 28-13 mark and her first conference championship, going 3-0 in the tournament on three different fields. She mentored Forry to her second straight Pitcher of the Year honors as the only pitcher in the conference to post an ERA under 2.00 for the season at 1.87. The pitching staff led the conference with the most strikeouts (208), fewest walks (65), WHIP (1.19) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.20). The offense cranked out a conference-best 69 doubles and had the second-best overall slugging percentage in the league at .410. 

The 2025 team soared to new heights, eclipsing the 40-win mark for the first time in program history. The Bullets reached as high as 13th in the national poll for their highest ranking ever, winning 23 of 24 games from the time they returned from Florida through the end of the regular season. Gettysburg finished runners-up in the conference tournament and earned the program’s and conference’s first at-large bid into the NCAA tournament, hosting a regional. The Orange and Blue capped a perfect 16-0 record at Bobby Jones Field with the program’s first-ever regional title and trip to a superregional. Forry claimed Pitcher of the Year honors for the third straight season and joined Audrey Bergan ’27 as the program’s first-ever All-Americans. Kalman and her staff were named NFCA Region V Coaching Staff of the Year.

PRIOR TO GETTYSBURG

A 2014 graduate, she spent the last four seasons as the head coach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as well as serving as the head coach at CC-foe Franklin & Marshall and Ripon.

Kalman’s MIT squad did not compete during 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but returned to the NCAA tournament last season, guiding the Engineers to a 32-18 record and regional final appearance. She coached a program-record six National Fastpitch Coaches’ Association (NFCA) all-region honorees and a second-team All-America honoree in Katia Pendowski. MIT also had the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Rookie of the Year (Mackenzie Bivin) and three NEWMAC all-conference honorees. For the season, the Engineers reset several single-season program records, including team batting average (.330), RBIs (226) and doubles (76). The squad also posted the seventh-highest GPA in Division III during the season with 13 student-athletes being named Scholar All-Americans while two players were named first-team CoSIDA Academic All-Americans.

In her first season with the Engineers, Kalman guided the Engineers to a 30-12-1 overall record. MIT entered the NEWMAC playoffs as the second seed after going 15-2-1 in league play and reached the final game of the tournament before being selected to host an NCAA regional for the second straight season. She coached three NFCA all-region honorees, one CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-American and four NEWMAC all-conference student-athletes, including the league's Pitcher of the Year. Overall in two seasons on the diamond, Kalman posted .672 winning percentage at MIT, going 62-30-1,

Kaman coached the 2018 season at Franklin & Marshall, guiding the Diplomats toa  17-21 overall record that included an 8-8 mark in CC play. She coached four all-conference players, including a pair of first-team nods. Her squad finished the season 12th in Division III in fielding percentage (.971).

Prior to her time in Lancaster, she was the head coach at Ripon in Wisconsin for the 2017 season, leading the Red Hawks to the program’s highest win total in the five years. She got her coaching start as an assistant coach at Ursinus in 2015 and 2016, where she was responsible for scheduling, practice planning, recruiting and fundraising.

PLAYING DAYS

During her playing days with the Bullets, she was a two-time captain and a four-year letterwinner while earning second-team all-conference honors as a senior. She was a member of the 2014 CC Sportsmanship Team and an Academic Honor Roll honoree in 2013. Kalman still ranks fourth in Gettysburg history for runners caught stealing and 17th in career fielding percentage at .977.

Kalman earned her bachelor of arts in psychology with a minor in writing in 2014. She earned her master’s in clinical mental health counseling from Villanova in 2016. At Villanova, she earned the Beverly B. Kahn Memorial Scholarship that was presented to the person who demonstrates a passion for assisting with the growth of underprivileged students.