MSU Athletics Hall of Fame
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.
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