Travis Owen has joined the Syracuse softball staff as an assistant coach in August of 2025. Prior to his second season, Owen took over pitching coach duties.

Owen brought more than 10 years of softball coaching experience at multiple levels with him to Syracuse..

He spent three seasons as softball coach at Northwestern Ohio, an NAIA program. Owen guided the Racers to three consecutive 30-win seasons, including a program-record 35 triumphs in 2025. Northwestern Ohio also captured a team record-setting 17 conference victories in 2025. Among the team standards set during Owen's tenure were shutouts (13), stolen bases (83), slugging percentage (.470), and on-base percentage (.374).

Owen was a coach and instructor at DBat San Antonio for a year where he developed athletes through high-attention training, nutrition and lifestyle plans, and individualized coaching.

He had a three-year tenure as coach at Division II Minnesota Crookston from 2019-21. The Golden Eagles more than doubled their win total from the previous season and set a program mark for triumphs in Owen's initial season at the helm. The pitching staff set a program record for season strikeouts (219).

From 2016-2018, Owen was the recruiting coordinator and lead hitting and pitching coach at Division I Northern Colorado. The Bears upped their win total each season and set a new program standard for Division I wins while Owen was with the program. In two years he helped the Rams lower their team earned-run-average from 6.89 (2016) to 3.76 (2018).

Owen was the pitching coach at Division I Radford in 2015-16. The program made a 23-win improvement over the previous season and accumulated 30 wins for the first time since 2012. Owen was instrumental in helping the team earned-run-average drop from 6.64 prior to his arrival to 2.90 in his year on the staff. Two of his hurlers posted top-10 finishes in Division I fewest walks per game.

He added international softball to his resume in 2014-15 when Owen worked as coach and development officer of the Howick Softball Club in New Zealand.

His first head coaching position came at Division III Lyon in 2013-14. The Scots produced the third-best finish in program history with Owen in charge.

After spending the summer of 2010 as a sport performance intern in strength and conditioning at Louisville, Owen was a strength and conditioning graduate assistant at Northern State for the 2010-11 school Year. The following two seasons he was an assistant softball coach and adjunct instructor at Northern State.

Owen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from St. Louis in 2007. He received a Master's of Science degree in Coaching, Health and Physical Education from Northern State in 2011.

Name	Title	Email
Shannon Doepking	Head Coach	sndoepki@syr.edu
Travis Owen	Assistant Coach	trowen@syr.edu
Corey Hart	Assistant Coach	cohart@syr.edu

2026 Softball Coaching Staff

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