Karavin Dew is set to begin her third season as the Lafayette softball head coach.
In her first season, the Leopards captured the program's most Patriot League wins since 2017 and secured a conference series win for the first time since 2018. Lafayette significantly improved its fielding, shaving 33 errors from the 2022 total. In Patriot League play, the team boosted its batting average 30 points from the prior season. Grace Harvey '23 and Paige Sandidge '24 took home Academic All-District II honors while Harvey also garnered Academic All-Patriot League status. The team ended the season 8-36-1, 4-14.
The second year of Dew's tenure saw Mary Grace O'Neill set a single-season record for stolen bases with 24, eclipsing a 40-year old mark. Lafayette placed a conference-best 18 student-athletes on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll following the season. The Leopards finished the campaign 5-37, 1-17.
Dew was named head coach on Aug. 15, 2022, arriving on College Hill following five collegiate coaching stops.
She spent the 2022 season as an assistant coach at Tennessee State where she helped the team set a mark for its most wins since the 2014 campaign. Dew was responsible for developing and implementing practice plans for the pitchers and catchers and was integrally involved in recruiting.
Prior to her lone season at the school in Nashville, Tennessee, she spent the fall 2021 campaign at Austin Peay State University as an assistant coach and director of operations. That followed three seasons (2019-21) at Brown University in Providence, R.I. where she worked primarily with the team’s hitters, infielders and catchers. Dew was integrally involved with student-athlete recruitment at the Ivy League school while also helping to organize the school’s softball camps while facilitating team travel.
Dew worked the 2017-18 school year as a volunteer assistant coach at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., mentoring the program’s catchers while also involving herself in video analysis and scouting.
The year prior, Dew was an assistant coach at Brevard College, assisting in all aspects of the Division III program in North Carolina.
Dew graduated from Western Kentucky in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. She was two-time (2011, 2012) All-Sun Belt Conference First-Team selection who helped guide the Hilltoppers to the 2013 NCAA Regional. The catcher set a school record for triples in a season (5) in 2011. A dean’s list student, Dew was a Sunbelt Conference Honor Roll selection from 2010-13.
A native of Calhoun, Ga., Dew went on to earn her master’s degree in organizational leadership with a concentration in sport management from Waldorf University in 2018.
Dew is married to her wife, Amanda.
Updated 1/25
