Darby Cottle

Darby Cottle Veazey, born on 26 September 1961 in Tifton, Georgia, is a two-time All-American softball player and one of only two female athletes to have her number retired at Florida State University. During her career she earned some of the highest honors ever given to a female athlete at the university. In 1982 she received the Broderick Award for slow-pitch softball, and she was later named amateur slow-pitch softball player of the year by the United States Olympic Committee. She was a member of consecutive AIAW national championship teams in 1981 and 1982 and was named most valuable player of the 1981 championship tournament, and she was elected to the Florida State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988.