Chris Cochran enters her sixthseason as Head Coach for the softball program at Bethune-Cookman University, coming off a 2011 season where she guided the Wildcats to a second straight Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championshipand NCAA regional berth in four years.

Bringing over 20 years of coaching experience to the B-CU program, Cochran began her coaching career at Clear Creek High School in Tiffin, Iowa, where her teams advanced to three consecutive state tournaments. In 1991, she was named District Softball Coach Of The Year.

After her years at Clear Creek, she became an assistant coach at Ball State (1992-1994), Marshall (1995-1998) before being named Head Coach at Brown University (1998-2001) where she developed two Brown Female Athletes of the Year.

After her stint at Brown, she joined the Iowa State University coaching staff where, in 2002, she was named associate head coach. Prior to B-CU, she served as an assistant coach at Rutgers. Cochran was a three-year letterman for the University of Iowa's softball team (1981-1984). During that time she earned the Women's Intercollegiate Athletics Award.

In 1986 she earned her bachelors degree in physical education with a minor in health education.