Roman Foore brings a wealth of experience as a player, head coach and assistant coach at the highest levels to the Bethel University coaching staff. Foore is in his seventh year as an assistant at Bethel with his wife and Bethel head coach Penny Foore. He was a highly accomplished men's fastpitch player and was a member of the United States Men's National Fastpitch Team, earning numerous honors during his playing career. Currently Foore is a player rep serving on the selection committee for the Men’s National Fastpitch Team.
Foore has been an associate head coach with his wife Penny at the professional level in the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) league and with Scrap Yard Fast Pitch and USSSA Pride. From 2014-2016 Foore was the associate head coach with the Chicago Bandits, helping them to a pair of Cowles Cup championships in the NPF. In 2017, Foore was the head coach of the Texas Charge with five Charge players being named All-NPF. In the summer of 2018, Foore led Scrap Yard Fast Pitch as the head coach. The Scrap Yard team included nine of the 18 current members of the USA National Team.
Foore spent three seasons as an assistant coach at the NCAA DI softball level for both Arizona State and Appalachian State. After serving at Bethel in 2015 and 2016, Foore went to Arizona State for the 2017 season before returning to Bethel in 2018. With Arizona State, Foore worked primarily with the Sun Devil hitters. ASU went to an NCAA Regional and three of Foore’s hitters earned All-PAC honors. While at Appalachian State, Foore was the head recruiter and hitting coach for the Mountaineers. During his tenure ASU won the Southern Conference championship and led all of NCAA DI with an 18-0 home record. The Mountaineers broke the school record for wins in a season and broke hitting records for batting average, homeruns, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, doubles and RBI’s. Coach Foore also helped produce the programs first All-American.
Foore spent two seasons as an assistant at the University of St. Thomas where he helped the Tommies to a pair of MIAC championships, an NCAA regional runner-up finish and a Third Place finish at the NCAA DIII World Series. Prior to jumping to the college level, Foore spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Eagan High School, where he was named the Assistant Coach of the Year in 2008 after helping the Wildcats to the State Championship.
Roman is a 1998 graduate of Texas Lutheran University (TLU) where he played baseball and was also a student assistant with the TLU softball program.
last updated 8/1/2020
