Life and Softball with Mary Murray

Mary Murray graduated from Arcadia University in May 2020 with a BA in Global Media, where she also played four years of college softball. A pitcher and corner infielder, she was a three-time All-MAC Commonwealth selection. She earned other conference and regional awards, such as: MAC Commonwealth Pitcher of the Year, NFCA First Team All-Region, NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete, Academic All-MAC, two-time Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area, and two-time Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-District. Her senior year of competition was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and she earned the MAC Softball Senior-Scholar Athlete award, as well as the Arcadia Athletics Female Senior Athlete award.

Murray has also had international playing experience. She was selected to the Great Britain Under-22 Women's National Team after spending a semester abroad in London and training with the High Performance Academy. She competed in the Canada Cup in 2019 against Team Canada, Team Chinese Taipei, and Team New Zealand, to name a few. Murray then represented Great Britain with the softball club The Mix in the Women's European Cup in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria, where the team took home the silver medal. She was selected again to the Great Britain U-22 Women’s National Team in 2020, where she would have competed in Prague, Czech Republic, but the tour was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Currently, she is pursuing her MA in Communication at Johns Hopkins University. She has also transitioned to coaching; she is a volunteer assistant coach at Rowan University and is coaching at the 14U travel softball level for the South Jersey Mystics (her former travel program). Murray is serving as the communication manager for the non-profit organization The Hidden Opponent, which advocates for mental health awareness in athletics. She is also the team manager for the Great Britain Under-15 Women’s National Team.

She is passionate about mental health in athletics, especially when it comes to identity outside of athletics. She hopes to work in college athletic communication; she wants to be in a position to help and support student-athletes in their collegiate athletics journey.

Mary's Article on The Hidden Opponent:  https://thehiddenopponent.com/mary-murray-covid-19-cancellations-the-day-that-still-haunts-me/

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