Bob D'Avanzo will be entering his 4th season as the assistant coach for the Concordia softball team. Coach D'Avanzo was the former head softball coach at the College of New Rochelle in from 2003-2004. Before that, D'Avanzo coached at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, NY. D'Avanzo was the assistant coach for the Dolphins from 1997-1999 under one of his former players, Donna Brini Verna. In 2000, Coach D'Avanzo became head coach at Mount Saint Vincent and won Coach of the Year honors in the Hudson Valley Women's Athletic Conference.

Coach D'Avanzo has worked numerous softball camps and clinics, including the University of Tennessee softball camp and Elite softball camp in 2003 and 2005 under Ralph and Karen Weekly, co-head coaches at the University of Tennessee. Ralph Weekly was a former hitting instructor for the Olympic Softball team in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics.

Coach D'Avanzo has been running and working softball camps for the past 6 years as a clinician at Elite Fast Pitch Softball School under Penny Rosario-Roberts, a 1996 Puerto Rican Olympic softball player and Joe Cirrincione, assistant coach at Iona College. Coach D'Avanzo also instructs his own personal catcher's clinics as well.