Entering 2027 season
Stacy Fournier is the sixth head coach in SFU Softball history.
Under Fournier, the Red Leafs have qualified for the last two Great Northwest Athletic Conference Softball Championships (2025 and 2026), making the championship both times. She is the only SFU softball coach to guide her team to back-to-back GNAC Championships appearances.
In 2026, SFU finished with a 13-11 record in league play for a second consecutive season. The team earned the fourth seed for the conference tournament and beat the GNAC regular season champion Saint Martin’s (Wash.) on the opening day. The Red Leafs made it to the final before losing out to Western Washington.
In late March and early April, Monica Bourque had a streak of 30 innings pitched without giving up an earned run, the second-longest in SFU’s NCAA era. The junior was one of four All-GNAC selections (two First Team, two Second Team) for the Red Leafs in 2026. Two players were named Academic All-GNAC.
Fournier made history for Canada’s NCAA team in 2025. She led the Red Leafs to a 24-25 record (13-11 in GNAC play), and a 13-win improvement over the previous season. Fournier shared the GNAC Softball Coach of the Year honour and became the first person from SFU to win the league’s top coach recognition.
The Red Leafs earned their third-ever GNAC Championships tournament berth and their first since the 2018 season. Five SFU players garnered All-GNAC status while two others were honourable mentions. Six Red Leafs made the Academic All-GNAC Team. Erin Murphy set the school and GNAC record for most stolen bases in a single season with 45.
The 2024 campaign was Fourier’s first as the team’s permanent head coach. Megan Duclos and Abby McGlynn merited spots on the First All-GNAC Team, while Grace McMillan had a place on the Second Team. Duclos and Julia Hansen were Academic All-GNAC.
Fournier was named interim head coach of SFU Softball just days before the start of the 2023 NCAA softball season after the resignation of Tina Andreana.
The team stole a school-record 104 bases in 2023, just one off the GNAC single-season record.
Duclos established what was then the SFU and conference stolen base record with 43. She and McGlynn were First Team All-GNAC selections. Duclos was named All-West Region by the D2 CCA and NFCA.
Fournier was spotlighted with another great honour in 2023, winning the Bobbie Steen Legacy Foundation Award, which is given “to an emerging leader whose dedication to the women and girls of BC parallels to those of Bobbie Steen and the Foundation.”
Fournier first joined SFU in October 2020 as the team's lead assistant coach. She and the rest of the staff helped the squad successfully return to competition for the 2022 season after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fournier has high-level playing and coaching experience in both softball and baseball.
She has dedicated many years to developing girls baseball in the province, with recent roles as Female High-Performance Technical Director and Regional Coordinator with Baseball BC, as well as head-coaching positions with the organization's Women's, 16U and 14U girls provincial teams.
Fournier has been the head coach of the Team BC 16U Aces for the last four years and led the squad at Baseball Canada women’s national championships. After taking over the head coach role with the Open Women's team this summer, she became the second woman in tournament history to coach her team to a gold medal.
Fournier was a standout on the softball field and in the classroom at Minot State University in North Dakota. She was a four-year starter at the NCAA Div. II school and earned the Athletic Director's Academic Achievement Award, as well as spots on the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference All-Academic Team, and the College of Business President's List.
After finishing her collegiate eligibility, the Brookswood Secondary School alumnus became a graduate assistant coach with the Minot State softball program, and completed her Bachelor of Science degree with Cum Laude distinction in 2015.
Fournier was one of BC’s top baseball players during her career. She was involved with Baseball BC provincial team since 2005 until her retirement. She was a member of Canada's Women's National Team, competing in 2013, 2017, and from 2019 until her retirement in 2023. Her last national team appearance came at the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Women’s Baseball World Cup in Thunder Bay, Ont., where Canada placed second.
