Jessica Cross is seen in this file photo.What are the odds?
What are the odds that a 24-year-old college softball coach begins his program with a freshman class, then signs the daughter of one of those players to help launch the same school into its NCAA Division I era 21 years later?
Moreover, what are the odds that the daughter is the 2012 Atlantic Sun Conference player of the year five years after that?
“Probably doesn’t happen very often,” Kennesaw State softball coach Scott Whitlock said Tuesday afternoon.
But that’s exactly what happened to Whitlock, who signed Ringgold’s Luann Hackett in 1986 as the school was starting a slowpitch softball program, then signed her daughter, Jessica Cross, five years ago when the Owls made the move to Division I in fastpitch.