Hayley Tamaro joined the West Chester University softball staff as head coach Diane Lokey’s top assistant coach ahead of the start of the 2025-26 season. Tamaro comes to West Chester after spending the 2024-25 campaign as an assistant coach at Mountain East Conference (MEC) member Frostburg State, following a stint at Division III Hunter College in New York in 2023-24.

Tamaro, a former collegiate pitcher, has worked extensively with the pitching staff at both of her previous two stops and helped lead Hunter to a second-place finish in the CUNY Regular Season and a runner-up finish in the CUNY Conference Tournament in 2024. At Frostburg State last Spring, Tamaro also helped mentor All-Conference outfielder Arden Miller, who led the Mountain East in home runs with 10 during the 2025 regular season.

Tamaro joined the collegiate coaching ranks after a career as a collegiate pitcher, first pitching at Division I Canisius in upstate New York before playing three seasons at Lincoln Memorial in Harrogate, Tennessee. In her time with the Railsplitters, she helped LMU capture one regular-season conference championship and two consecutive conference tournament crowns. She has also helped her squad advance to the final game of the NCAA Super Regionals, coming just one win shy of a Regional Title in 2022.

At Canisius, Tamaro appeared in 11 games with seven starts and struck out 11 in 23 innings of work and held opponents to a .167 batting average against in her shortened sophomore campaign. At LMU, Tamaro appeared in 62 games with 47 starts and posted a career win-loss record of 27-15 with a save. In 284 innings of work, Tamaro struck out 156 batters and posted a 3.50 ERA.