Jean Buskirk joined the Muhlenberg softball coaching staff for the 2020 season.
Buskirk was a four-year softball player at Bloomsburg University, leading the team to four NCAA championship finals appearances, including a runner-up, two third-place finishes and one fourth-place finish. A two-time first-team All-American, she was named to the NCAA All-Mid Atlantic Region team in 1992 and 1993 and also the 1991 and 1993 NCAA All-Tournament team. Buskirk was the 1993 PSAC East player of the year and a two-time ECAC Division II South Region player of the year, graduating as Bloomsburg’s all-time leader in career hits with 235 and helping the Huskies to a four-year record of 170-25.
After her collegiate career, Buskirk was selected to try out for the USA Olympic team in 1993. She made it to the round of the final 60 where she was selected to participate in the 1994 Olympic Festival. Buskirk also went on to play ASA Fastpitch softball at the Class A and Major levels. She participated in numerous ASA National Championship tournaments, helping her teams finish as high as national runner-up. She was named an ASA All-American four separate times.
Buskirk coached softball at West Chester University for the 1995 through 1997 seasons as the assistant and then interim head coach. Before coming to Muhlenberg, she was an assistant for three years at Wilkes University.
A 2010 inductee into the Bloomsburg University Athletic Hall of Fame, Buskirk graduated from Bloomsburg with her bachelor’s in computer science and earned her master's in information science from Penn State University.
