Hall of Fame
Chris Bellotto - Florida Southern, Softball Coach
Bellotto has been head softball coach at Florida Southern since 1982. Bellotto who graduated from Lakeland High School in 1974, Florida Southern in 1980 and earned her master’s degree in ’84 from the University of South Florida, compiled an 80-34 record, including 48-0 in the SSC in slow pitch softball, winning three straight league crowns. FSC made the conversion to fast pitch in 1985 and she enters the 2000 season with a 621-147 record with an unprecedented 15 straight conference championships. Her winning percentage of .809 ranks second among all Division II coaches and fifth among all-time coaches in all divisions. Bellotto, whose overall SSC record as a coach is 322-30, won the Mocs’ first-ever women’s Division II national championship in 1993. Her team finished national runner-up in 1989 and fifth nationally in 1996 and again in 1997. Her teams have won five South Region championships. Bellotto has been named SSC coach-of-the-year 10 times, more than any other SSC coach in any sport in history. She also was chosen national coach-of-the-year in 1989 and 1993 and South Region coach-of-the-year five times. Bellotto has had 22 players garner 33 All-America awards, including 19 first-team honorees.