Concordia University Chicago Athletics

           
In her first ten seasons at the helm, O'Malley-Fisher has guided the Cougars to four 20 plus win seasons, including a school record 26 in 2018. Under her guidance the Cougars have appeared in the conference tournament four times. The Cougars made an impressive run in 2018 to the conference semi-finals. In the 2023 season, the team maintained the No. 1 batting average in the conference for majority of the season. Additionally, multiple Cougars and the team were atop the top five in the nation for runs per game and doubles per game.

During her time at Concordia University Chicago, O’Malley-Fisher has coached two All-Americans in Melissa Balkema and Becky Pieroni. She has also coached a number of NACC All-Conference honorees, NFCA All-Region members, and CSC Academic All-District Team members.
    
O’Malley-Fisher is the former co-head coach at Division I University of Illinois-Chicago (2001-08), where she coached former CUC coach (2010-12) Alison Haehnel (then Aguilar) during her four years. O’Malley-Fisher watched with interest Haehnel’s success at Concordia-Chicago and, when Haehnel resigned to move to California with her husband, O’Malley-Fisher was immediately interested in the position at Concordia and applied.
           
O’Malley-Fisher’s primary college coaching experience is at the NCAA Division I level, but she counters that many of the differences between the two levels are mostly on legislative matters, O’Malley-Fisher notes a major similarity shared by scholarship and non-scholarship athletes alike in saying, “I think that athletes are the same across the board in that the best ones bring the passion and drive to what they do and are willing to put in the work necessary in order to be a champion.” 
           
O’Malley-Fisher is a 1994 graduate of UIC with bachelor’s degrees in English and history. She played four years with the Flames’ softball program and made an immediate impact as a freshman to the team’s first-ever conference championship team in 1991. As a senior, she helped lead UIC to the 1994 College World Series, the deepest NCAA postseason run by any UIC team in history.

Following graduation, O’Malley-Fisher took a teaching position at Downers Grove North High School but returned to UIC in 1999 to assist with the softball program. In 2001, she was promoted to co-head coach where, along with Tom Gray, she directed the Flames’ program for the next eight years. During her tenure, she led UIC to four regular-season Horizon League championships, two tournament championships, two regional appearances (2002, 2004) and three seasons of forty wins or more. Among the players she coached were four NCAA All-Americans, eight All-Region honorees, four Conference Players of the Year and two Pitchers of the Year, including Haehnel.

Since 2008, O’Malley-Fisher has served as an instructor for the Bulls/White Sox Academy, the Prep Baseball Report Academy and the DuPage Training Academy. She has assisted with the softball program at Glenbard West High School and served as head coach for the Glen Ellyn Phillies Travel Softball Team. Since 2011, O’Malley-Fisher has coached girls aged 14-18 as part of the DTA Elite Softball Program in conjunction with the DuPage Training Academy.

O’Malley-Fisher is married to Todd Fisher. The couple has two children, Brennan and Lillian.

Year	Record	Conference	Finish
Total	204-234-3	115-111-1
2024	11-26-1	7-17 NACC	11th Place
2023	18-20-1	10-12-1 NACC	Seventh Place
2022	17-20	11-13 NACC	Eighth Place
2021	11-27-1	2-14 NACC	Fifth Place (South)
2020	3-7	0-0 NACC	*Season Shortened due to COVID-19
2019	21-17	11-11 NACC	Seventh Place
2018	26-15	15-7 NACC	Fourth- NACC Semifinals
2017	24-16	13-9 NACC	Seventh Place
2016	25-15	12-10 NACC	Sixth-  NACC Second Round
2015	19-23	14-8 NACC	Fourth - NACC Second Round
2014	10-26	7-15 NACC	Tenth Place
2013	19-22	15-9 NACC	Fifth - NACC First Round