Stephanie Lombardo

Biography

Lombardo joins the Gophers after serving as a development coach for the Greensboro Grasshoppers, the High-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Grasshoppers currently sit atop the South Atlantic League with a 71–30 record. Prior to her time in Greensboro, Lombardo worked as a development coach and operations assistant with the Pirates' Single-A affiliate, the Bradenton Marauders. She also served as a coaching and operations assistant for the FCL Pirates in 2023. Lombardo's international coaching resume includes stops in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic with the Dominican Instructional League, and in Barranquilla, Colombia, where she served as an infield coach for Los Caimanes de Barranquilla. Her coaching career began at Eastern Kentucky University as a graduate assistant, where she helped guide EKU to its first Ohio Valley Conference Championship and NCAA Regional appearance since 2004. A former standout at the University of Wisconsin, Lombardo returned to her alma mater as a volunteer assistant coach. As a player, Lombardo was a four-time Big Ten Scholar-Athlete, a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2019), and a two-time NFCA Academic All-American (2018, 2019). She earned her bachelor's degree in Economics and Retailing & Consumer Behavior from Wisconsin and later completed her master's in Exercise and Sport Science at EKU.