One of the winningest coaches in Division II softball history, Jan Hutchinson enters her 25th season as head softball coach at Bloomsburg.

Four years ago, Hutchinson became the first woman ever to gain 1,000 combined collegiate coaching victories in a career. Also coach of the Bloomsburg field hockey team, Hutchinson has a record of 850-179-1 in softball and a mark of 419-59-20 in field hockey. Overall, she is 1,269-238-21 (83.7%).

The softball team has been to the national championship tournament every season since 1981, the only school to accomplish that feat. The Huskies have played in more NCAA tournament games than any other Division II school and are second in tournament wins.

The Huskies have been to the championship round seven of the last 12 seasons, twice finishing as the national runner-up with losses each time in extra innings in the national  title game, three third-place showings and two fourth-place finishes. The Huskies also won the 1982 AIAW national championship.

Bloomsburg holds 16 NCAA Division II individual, team or championship records.

In only her fourth season, Hutchinson won the national championship “double” in the 1981-82 school year, claiming the field hockey title in the fall and the softball championship that spring.

Bloomsburg has dominated Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference competition in the two sports, winning 13 of the last 19 softball championships and 10 field hockey titles.

In field hockey, the Huskies have won nine national championships, including an NCAA record four straight from 1996-99. Bloomsburg is the only NCAA team to ever win four straight national championships in field hockey.

The Huskies also won NCAA field hockey titles in 1993, 1987, 1984, 1983 and 1981 and have finished national runner-up eight times.

Field hockey has had 38 players earn 66 All-American awards. Softball has had 27 players gain 46 All-American honors. Hutchinson has been honored as national coach of the year in each sport, most recently as the 1998 field hockey Coach of the Year. Hutchinson has also coached two softball players and six field hockey players to National Player of the Year honors.

Hutchinson's coaching talents have not only helped those as student-athletes, but several of her former players have gone on to coach at the intercollegiate level. At Bloomsburg, she has former All-American performers as top assistant coaches in both field hockey and softball. Others have gone on to coaching jobs elsewhere, such as Janelle Breneman (Head Softball Coach, Bucknell), Jean Buskirk (Asst. Softball Coach, West Chester) and Kathy Frick, former head coach at Goucher College and current head coach of Bloomsburg University lacrosse.

Two former softball players have moved to the professional ranks. Janelle Breneman was a member of the Georgia Pride in 1998 and 1999 and Marty Laudato is a member of the Tampa Bay Fire Stix and was named Hitter of the Year in 1999.

A 1971 graduate of East Stroudsburg, she also earned a master's degree in education from the school in 1979. Prior to Bloomsburg, she initiated the women's physical education program at Blair Academy and served as head coach for field hockey, basketball and softball.

In the summer of 2000 the Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees honored Hutchinson by naming the softball field in her honor. She has also been inducted into the Hall of Fame at both Newton (NJ) High School and Sussex (NJ) County.