MSU Athletics Hall of Fame
Holly Hesse
- Induction:
- 2025
Holly Hesse collected 922 victories over the course of her 36 seasons as head softball coach at Missouri State from 1989 to 2024. She is the second-winningest coach in Missouri Valley Conference history (413 Valley wins) and the 47th-winningest coach in NCAA Division I history.
Her teams averaged 25.6 wins per season and tallied eleven 30-win seasons. Under her leadership, the Bears made six NCAA Tournament appearances (1996, 1997, 1998, 2006, 2011 and 2022), won two regular-season MVC titles and six MVC Tournament crowns with a league-record 55 wins in the MVC Tournament. Hesse coached 59 first-team all-conference selections, 30 NFCA All-Region honorees and three Academic All-Americans. She compiled a 922-889-2 career record with notable wins over four programs that have won NCAA championships -- Michigan, Alabama, Oklahoma and Arizona State.
Her teams averaged 25.6 wins per season and tallied eleven 30-win seasons. Under her leadership, the Bears made six NCAA Tournament appearances (1996, 1997, 1998, 2006, 2011 and 2022), won two regular-season MVC titles and six MVC Tournament crowns with a league-record 55 wins in the MVC Tournament. Hesse coached 59 first-team all-conference selections, 30 NFCA All-Region honorees and three Academic All-Americans. She compiled a 922-889-2 career record with notable wins over four programs that have won NCAA championships -- Michigan, Alabama, Oklahoma and Arizona State.
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