#11 on Fox 40's Top 40: Cindy Bostelman!

Bostelman attended and graduated from Afton Central School District and after college returned to her high school.

Cindy initially served as the Junior Varsity softball coach, building a feeder program that helped the varsity program, led by Jan Conover, to three straight New York State Championship games with the Indians coming out on top twice.

At the start of the 1989 season, Coach Conover retired and Cindy took over.

Coach Bostelman and co struggled at first, but in 1995, Cindy won her first Section IV title that turned into a state title run, getting back on top of the state for the first time since '87.

'95 began the most dominant stretch in Section IV softball history as the Afton softball team won all 16 Section IV titles between 1995 and 2010. A record that still stands today, in fact, no other team in Section IV even has that many Section Titles in their entire history. Along that run, Bostelman won State Championship in 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2009 with runner-up finishes in 1997,  '99, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

But even after Deposit dethroned the Indians as the Section IV Champ in 2011, Coach Bostelman stuck with Afton and made it back to the State Title game in 2013 making it five State Championships and seven second-place finishes in her career.

Bostelman was the New York State coach of the year several times and was even named the 2000's New York State Softball Coach of the Decade.

For the most dominant run in Section IV softball history, five state championships along with being Afton's Athletic Director plus over 500 career wins, Cindy Bostelman comes in at number 11 on Fox 40's Top 40 Most Impactful Local Sports Figures.