Michelle Fuzzard ends her first season as an assistant volunteer coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga after a stellar career with the Lady Mocs. Fuzzard works primarily with Chattanooga’s pitching staff while also assisting with hitting and fielding.

Michelle ranks first in the Chattanooga record books for most runs batted in (217) and total bases (453) along with numerous top five all-time rankings. Fuzzard also holds the record for  slugging percentage (.846), on base percentage (.543) and most runs batted in (75) in a single season.

Fuzzard made an impact from day one as a Lady Moc. She was the SoCon Freshman of the Year in 2008 and Player of the Year in 2011 posting first team all-league honors in all three years of competition. Chattanooga won SoCon Regular Season Championships all four years (includes her redshirt season due to injury in 2010) advancing to three NCAA Regionals along the way with three league tournament titles.

She led the 2011 team to the brink of the super regionals for the first time in the program’s history, earning NFCA All-South Second Team mention. In 2011, Fuzzard bounced back from ACL surgery in a big way with a team-best 18 wins in the circle including seven shutouts. She drove in a school and league-record 75 runs as well as becoming the clear player of the year choice for the conference.

The career .368 hitter has set the Lady Mocs RBI record with 178 in her career and is on the brink of the conference mark of 184. She was the first player in the SoCon to earn First Team (1B) and Second Team (P) honors in the same season (2009). She has multiple conference mentions from all-tournament (2008-09, 11), player of the month (Feb. and May 2010, Feb. 2012) and player of the week (seven times) during her illustrious career.

An August 2011 graduate with a degree in criminal justice, Fuzzard is a first-year graduate student continuing her criminal justice studies. She completed her undergraduate course work with a 3.24 GPA and currently holds a 3.3 GPA as a graduate student.

Updated 5/17/2013