Steve Alcorn was hired as the assistant coach for the Montreat softball program in November of 2022. He is entering his second season with the Cavalier softball program in 2023-24.
PRIOR TO MONTREAT
Alcorn came to Montreat after serving as head coach at Averett University in Virginia for the last three years. While at Averett, Alcorn's teams posted a 49-29 record. He coached a pair of USA South Conference Players of the Week, four all-conference selections, several pitcher of the week selections, three USA South All-Conference nominees and the 2022 D3 Commissioner's Association Regional Student-Athlete of the Year. In 2020, the team received votes in the National Fast Pitch Coach’s Association Final Top 25 Poll.
Prior to Averett, Alcorn served two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Mobile, where he primarily worked as the pitching coach. In 2019, Alcorn helped guide nationally-ranked Mobile to its second consecutive Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) regular-season title before winning the conference tournament and region championship to qualify for the NAIA World Series. In 2018, Mobile also won the region and advanced to the NAIA World Series while garnering a national ranking.
At Mobile, Alcorn helped coach two SSAC Pitcher of the Year selections, four NAIA All-American selections, 17 all-conference honorees and six all-region selections. Off the field, Mobile produced 27 all-academic team selections during those two seasons. In addition, Mobile’s coaching staff was named the 2018 and 2019 NFCA Region II Coaching Staff of the Year.
Before joining the coaching staff at the University of Mobile, Alcorn was an assistant coach at NCAA Division II Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala. While Alcorn coached there, Spring Hill had three all-conference selections. He also served as an assistant coach during the 2016 season at NCAA Division III College of Wooster in Ohio.
Alcorn’s experience expands beyond coaching at the collegiate level as he coached high school softball in Hummelstown, Pa. for 10 years and was a long-time travel softball coach, including five years coaching Gold Level softball.
Alcorn has been a professional hitting and pitching instructor for over 20 years. He was also the head coach for the Performance Lab team in the American Softball Association Women’s Professional League during the summer of 2019, earning the league's Coach of the Year award. In addition to coaching, Alcorn is a retired police officer.
A native of Harrisburg, Pa., Alcorn earned his Bachelor of Science in business administration and marketing from Towson University where he played baseball for the Tigers.
Alcorn and his wife Kim have three daughters — Lauren, Casey and Shelby.
