Casey Bump was promoted to head coach of the Siena Softball program on June 1, 2020. The 11th head coach in program history, the Capital Region softball legend originally from nearby East Greenbush, New York was elevated after having previously served for seven seasons as the top assistant and pitching coach for the Saints, coinciding with the program’s most successful era.
The winningest coach in program history through three seasons (83 wins) and third all-time in victories entering the 2024 campaign, Bump has taken Siena as close to the top of the MAAC as it's ever been, culminating with the program's first MAAC Championship Game appearance to end the 2022 season. The Saints posted an unprecedented 32-win campaign in 2022 to set the single-season record for wins and make its deepest MAAC postseason run ever.
“I’m grateful that Casey has helped Siena Softball grow and excel as a program,” said Siena College Vice President and Director of Athletics John D'Argenio upon Bump's promotion. “We are fortunate to have her here, and then be able to turn to her to lead the program. Her coaching skill and ability to help the student athletes grow as players, people, and students will help us continue to develop.”
Siena's upward trend continued into the 2023 season, with the Saints posting the best start in program history (6-0) en-route to matching the program wins record with its second straight 30-win season for the third time ever. The team set the single-season stolen base record in just 37 games and strung together a program record 30.1 straight shutout innings over a program record four straight shutouts from March 29 - April 3. Three MAAC postseason selections culminated in graduate student Ava Fitzmaurice becoming the program's first-ever NFCA First Team All-Region selection.
Returning to a full slate of play in 2022, Siena re-wrote the record books by setting new single season marks in wins, hits, walks drawn, strikeouts, and fielding percentage. Siena won four games in three days to rise out of the loser's bracket in the 2022 MAAC Tournament, with three players earning MAAC All-Tournament Team honors for their efforts. Bump helped five Saints earn All-MAAC accolades, with senior pitcher/outfielder Ava Fitzmaurice also receiving a Second Team All-Region nod.
Bump's first season at the helm saw immediate success in the midst of challenged brought on by the COVID-19 Pandemic, with the Saints posting a 19-15 mark for their first winning record since 2014 and a 10-6 mark at Siena Softball Field. The team finished fifth in the MAAC to earn a berth to the 2021 MAAC Championship Quarterfinals, with two players earning Second Team All-MAAC honors.
Bump has played an integral role in the success of Siena Softball since joining the program prior to the start of the 2014 season. The Saints both eclipsed the 20-win benchmark and posted top-four MAAC finishes in five of her first six full seasons, capped by consecutive top-three finishes in the conference standings each of the previous three years for the first time in program history.
“I would like to thank John D’Argenio and Siena College for this tremendous opportunity,” remarked Bump upon her elevation. “It’s been a dream of mine to be a head coach, and I’m excited to represent Siena College while continuing to build upon our softball program’s tradition of athletic and academic success.”
Bump wasted no time in making an immediate impact with Siena, as she helped guide the Saints to a program-record 29 wins in her first season with the Green and Gold in 2014. As the squad’s pitching coach, she oversaw a staff which posted a stellar 2.98 ERA that spring which was an improvement of nearly two full runs from the previous year (4.88). In Bump’s second season with the program in 2015, the Saints won multiple postseason contests to advance within a game of the MAAC Championship Series for the first time ever.
Bump has recruited and developed two of the most decorated pitchers in program history in Lauren Butts ’18 and Maddie McMahon ‘20. A 2017 Second Team All-MAAC and 2015 MAAC All-Rookie Team selection, Butts ranks second all-time in program history in wins (39), and third in strikeouts (412). Named a Second Team All-MAAC honoree last spring, McMahon stands fourth all-time in program history in wins (32), and sixth in strikeouts (333) spanning her first three-plus seasons.
Siena Softball has also excelled in the classroom during Bump’s time with the program. Last spring, Siena boasted a program-record nine MAAC All-Academic Team selections, and in 2017 Siena Softball was honored with its first-ever NCAA Public Recognition Award for achieving an Academic Progress Rate (APR) in the top-10 percent of all Division I softball programs nationally.
Bump first entered the collegiate coaching ranks as an assistant coach and pitching coach at nearby Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 2009-13. She previously coached both varsity and junior varsity softball in the Troy School District (2008-10), and owned and operated Casey Halloran’s Fast Pitch Universe to provide pitching and hitting lessons to aspiring youth softball players.
The former Casey Halloran, Bump is a member of both the University at Albany (2016) and East Greenbush Central School District (2010) Athletic Hall of Fames. A two-time America East Tournament Most Outstanding Player, she was named both the 2006 UAlbany Athlete of the Year and America East Pitcher of the Year. Bump led the Great Danes to three NCAA Tournament appearances (2005-07) capped by a trip to the 2007 Regional Final, and graduated as UAlbany’s all-time program record holder in seven career statistical categories: wins (73), strikeouts (595), complete games (68), games started (97), innings pitched (650.2), appearances (125), and no-hitters (four). At Columbia High, she was a three-time
Albany Times Union and
Troy Record First Team selection, where she guided the Blue Devils to three Suburban Gold Championships and a pair of Section II titles.
Bump resides in East Greenbush with her husband Jason, step-daughter McKenzie, and eight-year-old daughter Maya.
Year-by-Year With Coach Bump
| YEAR |
OVERALL |
PCT |
MAAC |
PCT |
CONF FINISH |
HIGHLIGHTS |
| 2021 |
19-15 |
.559 |
19-13 |
.594 |
5th |
First winning record since 2014; Most MAAC wins (19) in program history; Advanced to MAAC Tournament Quarterfinals |
| 2022 |
32-23 |
.582 |
14-6 |
.700 |
3rd |
Program's first MAAC Championship Game appearance; Set program record for wins, while logging the program's first-ever 30-win season |
| 2023 |
32-21 |
.604 |
11-9 |
.550 |
5th |
Matched program wins record while posting back-to-back 30-win seasons for the first time ever; Set best start in program history (6-0), while featuring program's first-ever First Team All-Region selection (Ava Fitzmaurice) |
| 2024 |
33-22 |
.600 |
12-11 |
.522 |
6th |
Captured the program's first-ever MAAC Tournament title after leading the team to a 4-0 record in the MAAC Championships as the No. 6 seed. Set the single-season program win record. |
| TOTALS |
116-81 |
.588 |
56-39 |
.590 |
