PITTSBURGH – Pitt Softball head coach Jenny Allard rounded out her coaching staff with the addition of Giorgiana Zeremenko as an assistant coach, Wednesday morning. Zeremenko played for the Panthers from 2015-2018 and returns to Pittsburgh after spending the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE).
“It is a privilege to welcome Giorgiana back to Pitt Athletics as an assistant coach,” said Allard. “She was an accomplished student-athlete at Pitt, and she will bring the same work ethic and drive she had as a player to her new role in the program. We are thrilled to have her join our staff.”
Prior to joining the Cougars staff, Zeremenko had coaching stints at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Saint Francis, and Louisville. During her tenure at Louisville, Zeremenko helped the Cardinals to the regional finals of the NCAA tournament. Zeremenko primarily worked with batters, catchers, and infielders, which enabled the Cardinals’ offense to one of the nation’s finest in 2019.
As a player, Zeremenko was a part of the first Pitt softball team to reach the ACC Championship Game and NCAA Regional Final in 2015 and also helped lead the Panthers to their first ACC Coastal Division title in 2018.
The Cannonsburg, Pa., native is a two-time NFCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region selection (2018 – first team, 2016 – second team) and was named to the All-ACC First Team in 2018. Zeremenko is the program’s all-time career home run leader (46) and ranks second in program history in career RBI (127). In 2016, she set single-season program records in home runs (17), on-base percentage (.487), and slugging percentage (.888).
Zeremenko earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2018 and became the program’s first player to be selected in a professional draft after being picked 19th overall by the E1 Pro Ballers in the American Softball Association (ASBA) draft.
