Jill Hancock (2022) - Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame

Jill Hancock

Induction:
2022

Jill Hancock was an NFCA All-America second team honoree in both 1985 and 1986 and a two-time NCAA All-West Region honoree (1985-86).

She was a four-time All-California Collegiate Athletic Association selection (1983-86) and ranks seventh in program history with a .332 career batting average, eighth with a .456 slugging percentage and 15th with 67 RBI and seven homers. Her 37 runs in 1985 remains fifth-highest single-season total in program history.

Hancock led Cal Poly to second-place regional and conference finishes in both 1985 and 1986 and was nominated for Cal Poly Female Athlete of the Year in 1986. She competed in the 1983 National Sports Festival, helping Team USA win the gold medal while playing left field, and earned ASA All-American honors in women’s “C’ slow-pitch in 1994.

More recently, Hancock captured Open Champion and Amateur Champion in herd work at the 2021 U.S. Arabian Horse Nationals in Tulsa, Okla. She was inducted into the Norco HorseTown USA Hall of Fame as a U.S. National Arabian Horse Amateur and Open Champion earlier this year.

A Cal Poly graduate in child and family development, Hancock currently lives in Norco, Calif. and has been a store manager for Home Depot in San Bernardino, Calif., for 29 years. She is a Home Depot District Community Team Captain, focusing on taking care of active and retired veterans.