Sara Scoone enters her sixth season as Head Coach of the Glenville State Softball program in 2026.
2025 was the most historical season to date for Pioneer Softball as the Scoone-led Pioneers went (36-17) overall and (22-8) in MEC play, securing the MEC South Division Championship and the overall MEC Regular Season Championship. Scoone was named MEC Coach of the Year, leading GSU to their most overall and conference wins in a single-season in program history. Seven Pioneers were All-MEC selections, including four First Teamers while Makenna Negley and Kylie Burdick were NFCA Second Team All-Region honorees. Scoring runs wasn't an issue for the blue and white either as 311 runs were plated during the year, over 100 more than the previous record. In addition, success was also found in the classroom as all 20 players finished with a GPA above a 3.0 and 10 Pioneers notched a 4.0 GPA.
The 2024 Glenville State Softball team had a record breaking year by posting a (26-20) record overall which is the most single season wins since joining the Mountain East Conference. This record gave them their highest conference finish at #2 since joining the MEC and #7 regional ranking which is the highest ranking in the programs history. They did all this by rallying behind a pitching staff that posted the lowest ERA in team history at 2.31.
In 2023, Glenville State Softball made its first Mountain East Conference Tournament appearance since the 2014 season. As a team, the Lady Pioneers posted a sub-three ERA. Holly Brehm created history once again becoming the first GSU pitcher to produce back-to-back 200-plus strikeout seasons. Brehm also earned another first-team selection becoming the second player in program history to have multiple All-Conference First Team selections.
The Lady Pioneers, in 2022, posted a (17-27) record overall and went (13-18) in the Mountain East Conference. With the newcomer Holly Brehm, the program’s single-season strikeout record would be broken with 209. Brehm also received an All-MEC First Team selection which was the program’s first since the 2014 season.
In her first season, 2021, Coach Scoone and GSU went 11-30 overall and 10-22 in league play. The 10 conference wins is the most league wins since 2013. GSU also ended the season winning seven of their last 10 games.
A native of Naples, Florida, Scoone played softball at West Virginia Wesleyan College and had an outstanding career there. She competed in three straight Super Regional competitions, competed in four straight Regional competitions, played in four straight MEC Conference Tournaments while winning two MEC Softball Championships, was a Two-Time MEC Second Team All-Conference player, and competed in the 2017 NCAA DII National Tournament finishing third in the nation.
She graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sport Business. She then joined the coaching staff at WVWC as an assistant coach. While serving as an assistant for the Bobcats, she was in charge of coordinating team strength and conditioning plans, worked with catchers, infielders, and outfielders, organized winter and summer clinics and camps, helped with recruiting, and was the Head Coach of the JV program. She earned her MBA from WVWC this past May.
She also worked in Admissions at West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Additionally, Scoone was a softball coordinator for Top Prospect Sports in Morgantown, West Virginia. She oversaw all softball-related functions held at the facility and managed and supervised several employees while conducting camps, clinics, and group lessons.
From 2018 until 2019 she served as a 14U Travel Ball Coach for the WHR Power in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She introduced games and drills, increased player strength, agility and game skill through successful practices, promoted proper stretching, warmups and coordinated exercises to prevent sport injuries, and directed ambitious practice sessions to boost athletic abilities and teamwork.
