Sparkill, N.Y. - St. Thomas Aquinas College Head Coach Kristen Sullivan notched her 200th career collegiate win on Thursday in her team's 3-1 win over College of Staten Island in the first game of an East Coast Conference softball doubleheader.

STAC President Ken Daly and Director of Athletics Nicole Ryan recognized Sullivan Friday morning in a ceremony at Spartan Field.

Sullivan enters the prestigious 200-win club after rebuilding the program in impressive fashion. The team finished 2-36 in 2014 before Sullivan took over the reins and transformed the program. Last year's 24-13 team reached the East Coast Conference championship round for the first time since joining the NCAA in 2001 and the 2019 team set the program record with 25 wins. (The 2020 season was suspended due to the pandemic.)

"Kristen has lifted our softball program to new heights of excellence," said Ryan. "Kristen's experience as a highly accomplished player coupled with her technical coaching expertise has helped her achieve great success here at STAC. We are very fortunate to have such a uniquely qualified woman to direct and influence young women in competitive intercollegiate athletics."

Sullivan has been a central figure of the STAC softball program for parts of four decades beginning in 1987 as a player. She enjoyed a brilliant four-year softball career at STAC that included a perfect game and five no hitters. She also batted .488 in 1988, the second highest single-season batting average in program history, and finished with a career batting average of .346. Her teams had a combined record of 70-35. For her terrific play, she was inducted into the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.

From 1991-98 and 2011-2014, Sullivan served as head coach, co-head coach and assistant coach before beginning her current term of service in 2015. She was named the Coach of the Year in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference in 1998.