Benedict College Athletics

Amari Lawson begins her second year as Head Softball Coach and and Student-Athlete Academic Enhancement Counselor.

In her first season as Head Coach, Lawson guided the Lady Tigers to an 18-22 overall record and 12-12 in the SIAC. The Lady Tigers advanced to the SIAC Championship Tournament for the first time in three years.

She spent the 2021-22 school year at Benedict as a professor and Student-Athlete Academic Counselor, a position funded by a grant from the NCAA. She also worked as a mental health technician at a behavioral health facility, where she applied her social work education.

Lawson spent two years as a Graduate Assistant Softball Coach at Clark Atlanta University. She earned her bachelor's degree in Social Work from Benedict College in May 2019, and was a member of the Lady Tiger softball team.

Lawson continued her studies and earned a master's degree in Social Work in May 2021 from the University of Kentucky.

She loves serving in her community and working with the youth. She has a passion for student-athletes and ensuring that they grow both academically and athletically.

During her four years at Benedict, Lawson was an outfielder who hit .271 with 15 doubles, four triples and two home runs. She scored 106 runs and drove in 60 runs and started 142 out of 145 games. As a senior in 2019, she started all 40 games and hit .333 with 31 runs scored and a career-high 19 RBIs.
 
Lawson was born in Durham, N.C., to her parents, Charles and Tonya Lawson, and raised in Atlanta, graduating from Westlake High School. Her younger sister, Alexus, was a standout soccer athlete who played at Alabama A&M and Albany State University.