Joan Joyce
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| Joan Joyce, born in Waterbury, is close to Babe Didrikson Zaharias as the greatest woman athlete of all time. Her softball record includes 150 no-hitters, 50 perfect games and a .324 career batting average. Joyce is legendary for striking out Ted Williams (1962) and Hank Aaron (1978) in exhibition games. She is a member of the National Softball, the International Women's Sports, and the Connecticut Women's Basketball Halls of Fame.
An extraordinary athlete, Joyce was a three time AAU basketball All-American, an LPGA Tour member, and competed in four volleyball national tournaments. In 1994, Joyce became the first women's softball coach at Florida Atlantic University, where she also coaches the women's golf team and has been awarded the A-Sun Coach of the year award five times. | |||||||||
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