Claire Roll begins her first season as an assistant coach during the 2025-26 academic year.
Roll brings a plethora of experience and excellence to the Crimson coaching staff, spending the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Wellesley College. During her tenure in Wellesley, Roll elevated and improved the Blue pitching staff each season. Playing a major role in both player development and recruiting. During the 2025 season, Roll mentored the Wellesley pitching staff to a 2.71 team earned run average, its best mark since 2011.
Student-athletes enjoyed stellar seasons under Roll's guidance during her time at Wellesely. Sarah Wicker garnered All-NEWMAC honors after the 2025 season, as Roll mentored Wicker to back-to-back sub-2.00 ERA seasons. Wicker is just the third student-athlete in Wellesley program history to have multiple seasons with an ERA below 2.00.
Roll spent the 2022 season as the head coach of the Eastern Nazarene College softball program. Roll led Eastern Nazarene to a successful 2022 campaign, as four student-athletes earned All-NECC and All-Region honors. Roll also oversaw a stellar season from Jennelle Munoz, as Munoz earned the 2022 NECC Co-Pitcher of the Year Award.
One of the most decorated student-athletes in Gordon College program history, holding the program single-season records for ERA (1.63), strikeouts per seven-innings (9.23), and earned runs allowed (7). Roll graduated from Gordon College in 2012 with a bachelor's of arts degree in sculpture.
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