USF Athletics

Softball (1996-99)

Two-time All-American Monica Triner was a force in the pitcher’s circle and at the plate for USF softball from 1996-99 before returning to her alma mater as an assistant coach.

Also a three-time all-region selection, Triner led the Bulls to three Atlantic Coast Conference championships before entering the USF Softball Hall of Fame in 2003. Triner finished her USF career holding 21 school records and still sits atop the Bulls’ all-time charts in shutouts (37), games started by a pitcher (109), on-base percentage (.508) and walks (141).

With a career pitching record of 92-33, Triner ranks second in USF history in victories, strikeouts (641), batting average (.390), hits (260), innings pitched (788.0), pitching appearances (154), and total bases (387).

The winner of three consecutive USF Silver Bat Awards, Triner also is in USF’s all-time top 10 in earned run average (0.95, third), saves (15, third), strikeouts per seven innings (5.71, seventh), opponent batting average (.191, fourth), runs batted in (158, third), doubles (52, third), home runs (23, tied for seventh), slugging percentage (.572, third), at-bats (666, 10^th), sacrifice flies (9, tied for ninth) and assists (382, ninth).

Triner finished her career by winning three straight USF Silver Bat Awards, leading the team with the highest batting average from 1997-99, and she was the first softball player to join the Bulls’ 200-hit club. The 1999 USF graduate led the Bulls to Atlantic Coast Conference Championships in 1996, '97 and '98 and a third-place finish in ’99.

Triner was the second overall pick in the 1999 Women's Professional Softball League Draft and led the Tampa Firestix to their first national professional championship. Triner played for the Firestix in 1999 and 2000, and with the Arizona Heat in 2004.

Triner spent three successful years as an assistant softball coach at Virginia Tech before returning to USF as a volunteer assistant softball coach in 2003. In 2006, she was elevated to assistant coach and served on the Bulls’ staff through the 2015 season.

Triner became the first softball team member to be inducted into the USF Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011.