Leticia Morales-Bissaro​

Leticia Morales-Bissaro was the driving force behind the St. Mary’s University softball team’s national championship in 1986. A product of St. Gerard High School, her deadly rise ball helped make her one of the greatest athletes to ever come out of San Antonio.​

Morales-Bissaro was elite in all four years for the Rattlers. Between 1983 and 1986, she had 667 strikeouts and was the team’s MVP all four years. She was a first team All-American in 1985 and a second team All-American in 1986. During her career she threw four no hitters. Two of those were perfect games, something most pitchers never achieve once. In 1986, she led her team to the NAIA national championship. Over the three-day tournament she pitched eight complete games (an NAIA record), compiling an astonishing 0.48 ERA. Her 65 strikeouts in the tournament are also an NAIA record in the non-pool play format. For her dominance, she was named the tournament’s MVP.​

Over her career, Morales-Bissaro’s opponents hit just .153 when facing her. She holds school records in career ERA, at 0.70, as well as single-game records for innings pitched and strikeouts, at 15 and 17, respectively. She was inducted into the St. Mary’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994. In 2000, she became the first woman athlete from St. Mary’s to be inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame. Her number 24 was retired by the Rattlers in 2001. She currently works at her alma mater as associate director of the graduate admissions department as well as the softball team’s pitching coach, where her expertise has helped them to a national championship and nine league Pitcher of the Year awards.​