Megan Cook enters her first academic year at Saint Anselm in 2022-23 as the Compliance Coordinator in the Department of Athletics. She also serves as an Assistant Coach for the Hawks softball team.
Most recently, Cook was an Assistant Coach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 2022 season, helping the team to a 32-18 season and an NCAA Division III postseason tournament appearance. Making it all the way to the NEWMAC title game as well, Cook mentored the team’s pitchers while preparing practice plans and recruiting at several high-level showcase tournaments.
She spent two seasons with the softball program at Regis (Mass.) College in 2019 and 2020 as a Graduate Assistant. Cook was also an Assistant Coach for Raiders Softball, a youth travel softball organization where she worked with the under-18 team. She was responsible for practice plans, pitching development and off-season conditioning.
Cook has an extensive background in the strength and conditioning, serving as a Strength and Conditioning Intern at Regis as well as a Graduate Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at UMass Lowell. With the River Hawks, she assisted with the development of their programming for the men’s lacrosse program while also assisting with track & field student-athletes as a secondary responsibility.
Very familiar with the Northeast-10 Conference, Cook was a standout student-athlete at Merrimack, graduating in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in Sports Medicine. As a senior, she earned NFCA Third Team All-America honors after capturing D2CCA East Region Pitcher of the Year and NE10 Pitcher of the Year plaudits – she finished with 25 wins as a senior, logging a 1.39 earned-run average in 39 games.
Finishing with 43 career victories in the circle, Cook fired 46 complete games across 67 starts and compiled a career earned-run average of 2.07. Offensively, Cook batted over .300 in her career and racked up 42 hits in 111 at-bats as a senior, producing a .378 batting average while driving in 25 runs.
Cook holds two master’s degrees, the first coming at Regis in Health Administration and the second coming from Merrimack in Exercise and Sport Science. She is recognized by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.
