Mercer University Softball

A 26-year collegiate coaching veteran with tracks of success throughout each stop of his storied career, Chris Kuhlmeyer was announced as the ninth head coach in the history of the Mercer softball program on June 7, 2025. Kuhlmeyer, who logged more than 250 victories across head coaching stops at both Belmont and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, also led UMBC to three America East Conference regular season championships and four league tournament crowns from 2019-25. The Retrievers made four NCAA Tournament appearances under his guidance as well. UMBC amassed nearly 160 victories and four NCAA postseason appearances under Kuhlmeyer’s watch. The energetic mentor led the Retrievers on a 12-1/2 game turnaround in just his first season in Baltimore in 2019 as UMBC rattled off a perfect 4-0 run en route to raking in its first America East Tournament title and its first NCAA postseason berth in more than two decades as well. Despite returning just one arm from their 2018 pitching rotation, the Retrievers tallied a 2.81 team earned run average (68th NCAA), while also accumulating the nation’s 17th-best shutout total (17). The magical run would signal a golden era for the UMBC program which brought home its first America East regular season crown in 2021, while also capturing the second of four-straight America East tournament championships. The Retrievers also bought home the conference’s regular season crown to accentuate the 2022 and 2023 campaigns. Kuhlmeyer logged his f

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A certified athletic trainer with previous experience at two other NCAA Division I institutions, including a fellow Southern Conference member, Kimberly Wynn begins her first year with the Mercer athletics department in 2023-24 as an assistant athletic trainer for the Bears. Wynn is specifically responsible for the prevention and care of injuries for MU's softball and football teams. Wynn trekked to Macon from Clinton, S.C., where she undertook a brief stint working with the Blue Hose football and women's tennis teams. She also spent two seasons (2021-22) as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Chattanooga where she provided day-to-day support coverage of the football team for the Mocs. While attaining a wealth of experience at UTC, Wynn also immersed herself in a plethora of other clinical opportunities, including a stint with the National Independent Soccer Association's Chattanooga Football Club, as well as work in the C4: Outpatient Physical Therapy Clinic. She logged additional experience working with Chattanooga-area high schools. In addition to her professional experience, the native Californian has also recorded a lion's share of volunteer work. She was on-site for the 2021 and 2022 Little Debbie Ironman events, and also staffed the 2021 SoCon Tennis Tournament, as well as the 2022 Frost Winter Classic softball event. Wynn earned her bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Sonoma State in 2020, and earned her graduate degree in athletic training at Chattanooga in Ma

Having already left footprints of success at each stop of her career in collegiate athletics, Morgan Edmundson begins her first season at Mercer in 2025-26 a...

A former NCAA Division I student-athlete who has already gained extensive experience on the prep and club softball levels, Taylor Bachmeyer begins her first ...

Embarking on his 28th year in the athletic communications field, Todd Anderson begins his second season as Assistant Athletics Director for Athletic Communications at Mercer in 2024-25, having officially joined the Bears family in July 2023. Anderson trekked to Macon from southeastern North Carolina where he served 17 seasons (2006-23) as the Associate Athletics Director for Communications and Strategic Initiatives at UNC Pembroke. He was hired as the school's sports information director in 2006, was promoted to assistant athletics director for communications prior to the start of the 2011-12 academic year and additionally to associate athletics director at the beginning of the 2014-15 season. While he oversees the athletic media relations efforts for all of Mercer's 18 varsity athletic teams, Anderson handles the day-to-day responsibilities for the football, women's basketball, softball, men's tennis and track & field teams. Prior to his move to North Carolina in 2006, Anderson served nine years in the athletic media relations departments at two Southeastern Conference schools - first as a student assistant/intern at Alabama and then as an assistant athletic media relations director at Mississippi State. He was charged with the day-to-day athletic media relations responsibilities for the nationally-ranked women's soccer and softball programs for both the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs. He also assisted in the game day operations for the football, baseball and basketball progr