Lisa-Ann Wallace enters her ninth season as the head softball coach at Bryant University, boasting the most all-time wins (194-170-1 record) and all-time best winning percentage (.532) during her eight year tenure.  Wallace prepares the Bulldogs for a much different challenge in the 2009 season, as Bryant begins its first year of Division I play as they get ready to join the Northeast Conference in 2012-2013.

In the team's final year of Division II play, Wallace coached the 2008 squad to a 30-16 record, finishing second in the conference and making another trip to the Northeast-10 Conference Championship series. The squad was helped by Northeast-10 Conference Pitcher of the Year, Janine Enos, who won 20 games.

After falling to LeMoyne in the conference finals in a hard-fought series, the Bulldogs went on to play in their fifth straight NCAA tournament. Wallace's current run of success includes five consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament, three Northeast-10 Conference Players of the Year, one Northeast-10 Conference Pitcher of the Year and two conference championships.

After inheriting a team that went 4-37 in 2000, Wallace and assistant Nancy Burgess have taken the Bulldogs from perennial conference cellar-dwellers to a conference powerhouse.

In 2007, Lisa-Ann Wallace became the winningest coach in the history of the Bryant softball program in just her seventh season at Bryant, with a 3-0 win over Merrimack on April 23, 2007. It was Wallace's 164th career win, the most by any coach in the program's 30-year history, sending her career record to 164-154-1 at Bryant.

That same season, the Bulldogs made their fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, held at C.W. Post's campus in Brookville, NY.

The Bulldogs defeated ECC champion Dowling, NE-10 Tournament champ UMass-Lowell and Adelphi before being beaten by the host Pioneers of C.W. Post in the Regional finals. It was the furthest the Bulldogs had ever advanced in the NCAA Tournament.

"It's been a privilege to coach here at Bryant," said Wallace."These student-athletes over the past 8 years have created a tradition of winning both in the classroom and on the field. All incoming freshman should be honored to put on a Bryant uniform and continue the winning tradition."

Prior to her arrival, the Bulldogs suffered through a 4-37 (1-17 in conference) season in 2000, but in Wallace's first year, the Bulldogs improved to 14-40 in 2001 and 22-24 in 2002. Wallace was named the Northeast-10 Conference Coach of the Year that season. The Bulldog program enjoyed their breakout season in the spring of 2004 when the Bulldogs finished 20-8 in conference and hosted an NCAA Tournament regional.

The next year, 2005, the Bulldogs finished with a 22-6 conference record and took the NE-10 tournament behind three first team All-Conference selections.

The 2006 team saw the Bulldogs capture their first ever Northeast-10 regular season and second straight conference championship with a 23-5 conference record (29-18 overall). Last year's team finished with their third straight NCAA tournament berth and seven All-Conference Selections.

Standout catcher Jordan Dargon captured league Player of the Year honors, making it the second year in a row one of Wallace's players claimed the award. In 2005 Deidre Kittredge took home the award. Amanda Wilbur would win the award in 2007, giving Wallace three-straight conference players of the year.

In her eight years at Bryant, Wallace has coached a total of 24 All-Conference selections. In the six years before her arrival, only one Bulldog made the All-Conference team (Lauren Smolinsky in 1995).

A 1987 graduate of Westfield State (Mass.), where she was an all-conference catcher, Wallace started her head coaching career at Fitchburg State (Mass.) in 1995, and needed just three years to set the Falcons' single-season record for victories. Her 1998 team finished 21-14-1, and Wallace was recognized as the Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for her efforts. In 2000, Wallace and Fitchburg State registered the highest winning percentage of any college softball team in New England, as the Falcons compiled a 20-5 mark and placed second in the MASCAC behind perennial Division III power Bridgewater State.

Wallace left Fitchburg State as the winningest coach in the program's history, arriving at Bryant in August of 2000.