Varsity Softball

Lindsay Beer, a standout three-sport athlete at East Longmeadow High School (MA) and a star softball player at Division I Hofstra University (NY), enters her second season as the head softball coach at Loomis Chaffee for the 2025 season. 

At Loomis, Lindsay is the assistant director of summer programs tasked with overseeing partnerships, contracting LC facilities to outside organizations, and executing the Enrichment Program, the summer’s signature offering. The Enrichment Program enrolls more than 100 boarding students, employs a staff of more than 40, and provides rising seventh- to 10th-grade students with a microcosm of the Loomis Chaffee experience.  

Lindsay has 12 years of collegiate and almost ten years of high school coaching experience. She was an assistant coach at C.W. Post, Long Island University in New York, and the University of Rhode Island before becoming the head coach and assistant athletic director at The Sage Colleges in New York and Westfield State in Massachusetts. 

At C.W. Post, the team won conference championships during her two years there and was ranked as an NCAA Division II top-25 team in 2002. She and head coach Jamie Apicella won the NYCAC Coaches of the Year Award in 2002. Under Lindsay’s guidance, the Sage Gators boasted 29 Skyline Conference Scholar-Athlete honorees, including a then program-best 11 in 2011, 16 NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete citations, one Skyline Conference first-team and four second-team all-conference selections, as well as two all-region honorees.

At Hofstra, Lindsay was a four-year starter at shortstop for the Pride and helped lead her team to America East Conference championships all four years. She was named to the America East All-Tournament Team in 1999, 2000, and 2001 and was a four-time All-Academic Team selection. While she was on the team, Hofstra beat the perennial powerhouse UCLA 10-5 and started the school’s record streak of 15 consecutive conference titles. 

Lindsay has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Hofstra University and a master’s degree in higher education administration from Bay Path University in Massachusetts. She resides in Wilbraham with her wife and two young sons.

Hannah Insuik will be starting her 5^th season as an assistant coach for the varsity softball program. After a brief hiatus in 2024 for maternity leave, she comes back ready to join a program that is on the rise and stays true to the values that LC Softball has always held. Hannah played softball for her whole life growing up. She played through high school as a catcher, where she was an All-League selection for WNEPSGSBA for all four years, as well as a league all-star in her junior and senior year. She moved on to play volleyball and ice hockey in college at Colby, but did not leave softball behind as she worked for the Colby Softball team keeping their official game book for home games. Her love of the strategies and complexities of the sport keeps her coming back to softball time and time again.