Toni Rieke returned to the Missouri State softball program for the 2020 season as a volunteer assistant coach.
The native of Belle, Mo., was a four-year catcher for coach Holly Hesse's Bears from 1993-96, earning All-Missouri Valley Conference second-team honors as a junior and All-MVC first-team honors as a senior. She played for the Bears' 38-13 MVC regular-season champions in 1994 and the MVC Tourney champs and NCAA Tournament club in 1996. The 1996 ball club posted a 34-22 mark, finished third in regular-season league play, and set a host of new school records for offense during the course of the season.
At the end of her career, Rieke set individual MSU career marks in doubles (34) and games played (201), and finished fifth in MSU career total bases (261), third in hits (177), and second in career RBIs (121) and home runs (10). She finished with a .302 career batting average.
She went on to play professional softball for the Durham Dragons of the WPF league in 1997.
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