Shannon Colson enters her second year as an assistant coach for the Regis College softball program.

During the 2022 season, the Pride qualified for the GNAC Tournament for the first time since joining the league as they finished with a 7-9 league mark, including a victory over eventual conference tournament champion Johnson & Wales during the regular season. 

Colson was an outfielder at Saint Anselm College for five seasons, returning to the team in 2021 to finish her collegiate career after the 2020 campaign was halted. She started 199 of the 200 games she appeared in, compiling a .328 career batting average with 206 hits, a school-record 89 stolen bases, and 77 runs batted in. In 2018, she received Third Team All-Northeast 10 honors after batting .315 with career-high totals in triples (six), RBI (35), walks (17), and stolen bases (32), also a Saint Anselm single season record. Colson would help the Hawks advance all the way to the NCAA Division II Softball Championship Final Series.

She followed that in 2019 with a .358 batting average, walking 15 times while striking out on only three occasions, as she earned First Team All-NE10 and D2CCA First Team All-East Region recognition during a season in which Saint Anselm again reached the NCAA Division II Tournament Super Regionals. In 2021, Colson helped the Hawks win the East Regional to advance to the NCAA Division II Softball Championship as she received Second Team All-NE10 accolades by batting .309 and walking 15 times with only four strikeouts. 

Colson received her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Saint Anselm with a minor in English speakers of other languages. She is pursuing her master's degree in special education at Regis.