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Associated Press
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Florida Atlantic softball coach Joan Joyce, the most productive coach within the program’s 28-year history and whose a mountainous different of claims to reputation incorporated once striking out Ted Williams, has died, the college announced Sunday.
Joyce died Saturday, the college said without disclosing the placement off. She became 81.
“Joan became an ultimate sports activities story, and we’re grateful for the 28 years she spent right here, modeling the correct in inner most and official habits for our pupil-athletes,” FAU president John Kelly said. “Joan’s legacy will stay on on the college and throughout the country by the generations of younger ladies she impressed to play — and excel at — softball and golf.”
Joyce became inducted into the Global Females’s Sports Hall of Popularity in 1989. She spent 19 years as a member of the LPGA Tour — wanting easiest 17 putts to get by a spherical in 1982 — and likewise served as FAU’s ladies’s golf coach from 1996 by 2014.
Nonetheless the thing she became no doubt requested most about in her existence became the 1961 exhibition in Waterbury, Connecticut, correct by which she struck out Williams, the supreme MLB player to bat .400 in a season.
“No topic the put I amble in this world, I constantly devour folks constructing to me asserting, ‘You struck out Ted Williams,'” Joyce said in 2009. “It constantly occurs.”
Joyce became officially credited along with her 1,000th softball put at FAU earlier this season, even though she has no longer been throughout the Owls since preseason. Joyce became a long way flung from the crew this spring after undergoing a scientific course of, the college said. Affiliate head coach Chan Walker has been serving as coach.
Joyce’s occupation file became 1,002-674-1 at FAU. She led the Owls to 11 NCAA postseason tournaments and became honored as conference coach of the year eight cases.
