Cris Allen | Florida Southern College | Baseball | 1986-89
Cris Allen played for Florida Southern College from 1986-1989 and was a member of the 1988 NCAA Division II national championship team. A second-team All-American in 1987 by the American Baseball Coaches Association, he was a four-time All-Sunshine State Conference honoree, including three straight seasons on the first-team All-SSC squad. Allen was named to the ABCA All-South Team three times and was a first-team honoree in 1986 and 1987.
At the time of his graduation he owned the NCAA Division II career records in runs scored, runs batted in, and walks. As of the end of the 2017 baseball season, he still ranked in the Top-six in four NCAA career categories. In addition to the NCAA records, he still holds Florida Southern career records in games played, at-bats, hits, doubles, triples, and total bases. He set the FSC school record for hits in a single game with six in six trips to the plate in a contest vs. Lenoir-Rhyne on March 3, 1987 and batted .349 for his career.
His accolades earned him a spot on the Sunshine State Conference Silver Anniversary Team at third base in 2002. In his career with the Moccasins, Allen helped lead Florida Southern to a 174-47 overall career record, including a 69-23 conference mark. He was a part of three SSC championship teams and one runner-up squad. During his four seasons, FSC won one regional title and finished second in the region twice.
A 1991 graduate, Allen was drafted and signed with the California Angels. In 1993, he was inducted into the FSC Baseball Hall of Fame and was named to the Florida Southern Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.