UPDATED June 2, 2025
Hannah Kelly (McClounie) joined the Wayne State softball staff in September of 2021 as a full-time assistant coach. She will began her fifth season on head coach Nicole Tines' staff in the fall of 2025.
Prior to her coaching appointment, she spent the previous 20 months as a graduate intern in the WSU Strength and Conditioning department following an outstanding four-year career capped by being voted GLIAC Player of the Year and an All-American in 2019.
Kelly (McClounie) is married to former Wayne State baseball player Justin Kelly. Justin currently serves as the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Wayne State and holds the program's career home run record (38).
McClounie's student-athlete bio:
As a senior, McClounie was selected to the All-America Third Teams by both the NFCA (as a third baseman) and D2CCA (as utility player) after being voted the 2019 GLIAC Softball Player of the Year. She received Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete recognition in 2019 after earning Academic honors seven different semesters, including four terms with at least a 3.5 GPA.
McClounie started all 221 career games played (181 at SS, 38 at 3B, 1 in CF, and 1 as DP) which ranks seventh in school history. She set the school record for career walks (77), was tied-for-first in sacrifice flies (11) and finished second in home runs (28). McClounie was third in both slugging percentage (.585) and fielding assists (401), tied-for-fourth in fielding double plays (27), fifth in total bases (369), sixth in on-base percentage (.426), seventh in highest stolen base percentage (.895 / 17-19 / min. 10 attempts), eighth in both runs scored (144) and doubles (44), 10th in batting average (.357 / 225-631 / min. 170 AB), 11th in RBI (111), tied-for-11th in games played (221), 12th in hits (225), tied-for-12th in triples (8), 13th in fielding chances (820), 15th in most times reached base on an error (24), tied-for-15th in stolen bases (17), tied-for-20th in at bats (631), tied-for-24th in hit by pitch (8), and 44th in fielding putouts (328).
McClounie earned her bachelor's degree in Kinesiology in December of 2019. She also earned her master's degree in Exercise Sports Science in August of 2021. She was born on May 7, 1997, in Windsor, Ont., and is the daughter of Leonard and Mary McClounie. Hannah has one older brother, Joshua.
