Megan Langenfeld - Softball Coach - University of Oregon Athletics

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Megan Langenfeld

Title:
Assistant Coach

Megan Langenfeld enters her third season with the Oregon softball program after joining head coach Melyssa Lombardi’s staff on August 22, 2018.

The Ducks’ pitching staff finished among the best in the nation in her second season, ranking in the top 15 in four major stat categories. Oregon finished fourth in the country in both strikeout-to-walk ratio (4.66) and runs allowed per game (1.67), while allowing the 10th-fewest total runs (40) and coming in 11th in ERA (1.62). The Ducks also posted eight shutouts and gave up no more than five runs in a game all year.

Langenfeld also helped guide a pair of pitchers to shortened season All-America selections by Softball America in 2020. Brooke Yanez was named a second-team All-American after going 9-1 with a 1.56 ERA and 94 strikeouts while Samaria Diaz posted a miniscule 1.00 ERA while going a perfect 8-0 in the circle. In her second year at Oregon, Jordan Dail posted a 2.39 ERA – nearly two whole runs lower than her first year as a Duck – while going 5-1 with 47 strikeouts to just seven walks.

In her first year at Oregon, Langenfeld helped Dail earn second-team All-Pac-12 honors and finish with the sixth-most strikeouts in a season in school history at 240. The only scholarship pitcher on the roster for most of the year, Dail worked a conference-leading 248.0 innings while going 18-18.

A three-time all-American and 2010 national champion as a player with UCLA, Langenfeld came to the Ducks after spending the 2018 season as pitching coach at UC Riverside.

Langenfeld helped take the UC Riverside pitching staff to new heights in 2018, leading the Highlanders to 15 shutouts, a no-hitter and several new program records in the circle. Individually, Hailey Dolcini went 15-9 and boasted a 1.80 ERA to rank second in program single-season history, and Tayler Misfeldt tied for second all-time with 21 wins while posting a 2.51 ERA.

Langenfeld went to UC Riverside in August 2017 after spending the previous three seasons (2015-17) as an assistant at Stanford. Before joining the Cardinal, Langenfeld worked as a graduate assistant and manager for two years (2013-14) at Arkansas.

The 2010 Pac-10 player of the year for UCLA, Langenfeld was a four-time all-Region and all-Pac-10 selection from 2007 to 2010 while starring both in the circle and at the plate. She was also a finalist for USA Softball national player of the year in 2010, when she hit .706 and slugged 1.529 while going 3-0 in the circle with 17 strikeouts in 24.2 innings at the Women’s College World Series to lead the Bruins to the national title and earn the WCWS Most Outstanding Player award.

Langenfeld’s name can be found at or near the top of nearly every major UCLA single-season and career statistical category. In 2010, she set program single-season records in slugging percentage (1.085) and on-base percentage (.667), and posted the second-best batting average (.527) in UCLA history. She also led the Bruins with 20 home runs, 58 RBIs, 43 walks and 140 total bases. In the circle, she was 14-1 with a 1.53 ERA and 76 strikeouts in 114.1 innings.

For her career, Langenfeld finished 53-9 with a 1.42 ERA in the circle with 348 strikeouts in 453.1 innings, and added 34 complete games and 13 shutouts. She closed her UCLA career ranking in the top 10 all-time in nine different categories, highlighted by the all-time career saves record (12). She also shined in the classroom for the Bruins, earning Pac-10 all-academic honors three times.

Following the 2010 season, Langenfeld was nominated for an ESPY and honored as the Los Angeles sportswoman of the year, and in 2013 she was inducted into the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame. She has spent time with the U.S. National Team as a first baseman, designated hitter and pitcher, and helped lead the squad to a Japan Cup title in 2010, when she earned tournament MVP honors.

Langenfeld graduated from UCLA in 2011 with a degree in economics, and then earned her Master’s degree in recreation and sport management from Arkansas in 2014.

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