Athletics Hall of Fame
Lori (Cillo) Greeno '94 was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999. She is considered one of the most influential players in her respective sport's history.
As the first softball player ever inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame, Cillo was a record-setting pitcher, who rewrote every major pitching record in Saint Anselm history.
By the time she finished her career, she had garnered a 54-32 record in the circle, a 62.7% winning percentage, owned all four of the top seasonal victories records, all four of the top seasonal strikeout records and had become the first pitcher in Hawks history to record more than 100 career strikeouts (as well as 200, and 300), finishing with 349.
She was renowned for her workhorse effort, often pitching both ends of doubleheaders, only to do the same the next afternoon. By the end of four years, she had racked up an incredible 571 innings of work, a full 78% of all the Hawks innings of that four year period.
Cillo earned plenty of attention along the way. She was named to the Northeast-10 Conference All-Star team in 1993 and 1994 and earned numerous Pitcher of the Week and weekly Honor Roll selections.
Cillo excelled in the classroom, much the same as she did on the softball field. Cillo was a Dean's List member, Secretary and later President of the Psi Chi National Honor Society, and topped off her career earning the prestigious Senior Student-Athlete Award in 1994.
Cillo's influence on the program was clear. Prior to her coming to Saint Anselm for the 1991 spring season, the softball program had never enjoyed a winning season and further, had not come very close. In fact, the year before Cillo's arrival, the Hawks had set a new program record for wins with a 7-21 record.
She is remembered for her first collegiate game, when she struck out 11 batters and defeated UMass-Lowell, 5-4. The Hawks posted a 13-13 record that season and she became the first pitcher ever to finish with a winning record (10-7). In just her first season, Cillo had shattered every major seasonal pitching record that the program had taken 11 years to build.
The bar of success continued to rise with each passing season. Cillo put together a 13-12 record in 1992 and Saint Anselm was, again, a respectable 14-14. Finally, Cillo's junior year, the Hawks reached a new height - it's first winning season - a 15-7 record, and for the third straight year, Cillo had reset all those same pitching records, posting a 14-7 record. Cillo saved her best for last however, displaying the dominance she had created in the pitching circle.
Her senior year, Cillo placed herself among the elites of Saint Anselm athletics history firing a 17-6 record as the Hawks hit 21 wins (21-13). The Hawks combined record for the four years before Cillo arrived at the Hilltop was 21-74. The following four years with Cillo in the circle, the Hawks had posted a 63-46 record and in that final season in 1994, qualified for the Northeast-10 Conference postseason for the first time, placing third.
