When the field your team plays on bears your name, you must have done something right.
 
For the last 31 years, Cheryl Condon has been the head coach of the Elms College softball team, guiding the Blazers to more than 400 wins and four NCAA Tournament appearances.
 
Before beginning her stellar career at Elms, Condon was a standout student-athlete at Westfield State University.   A 1979 graduate of Westfield State, Condon played both basketball and softball for the Owls and was a two-year captain in both sports. She transferred to Westfield from Massasoit Community College.   She scored 1,014 points in her four-year college basketball career and was one of the leading scorers on the Owls’ 1978 team that competed in the EAIAW tournament.
 
In softball, Condon’s pitching and hitting helped lead the Owls to a top seed in the 1978 MAIAW state tournament, a 14-11 record and an 8-7 win over Worcester State in the championship game to win the tournament title Condon pitched in all four of the Owls’ games in the tournament and drove in the game winning-run in the MAIAW tournament championship game.
 
In 1979 Condon’s Owls finished with 11-10 record and an 8-4 in the MASCAC. Condon led team in innings pitched (76), strikeouts and wins (5).
 
In basketball, Condon was a guard and one of the leading scorers on the 77-78 Women’s Basketball team which finished 17-5 and qualified for the EAIAW tournament
 
The 1978-79 team finished with a 15-10 record as Condon totaled 263 points and 108 steals in her two seasons with the Owls.
 
The winningest coach in the history of Elms College in any sport, she is an 8-time conference softball coach of the year, winning the award five times in the North Atlantic Conference and five times in the New England Collegiate Conference. Twice her teams have qualified for the ECAC tournament. In addition to her tenure as a coach and faculty member, she also served a stint as athletic director at Elms.
 
Condon has been widely recognized for her achievements as both a player and coach.  She has been inducted into the Rockland High School Hall of Fame, where she competed in softball, field hockey and basketball, the Massasoit Community College Hall of Fame, and the Elms College Hall of Fame, both as an individual and with her 2003 team which won a school-record 28 games and qualified for the NCAA Tournament.
 
She also was recognized as a woman of distinction by the Pioneer Valley Girl Scouts. 
 
Condon earned her bachelor’s degree in physical education from Westfield State College and her master’s in education from Elms College.  A native of Rockland, Mass., who now resides in Suffield, Conn., Coach Condon continues as a coach and a faculty member in the Elms College’s Physical Education Department.