Honors
Big Ten Player of the Week (3/27/06)
First Team All-Great Lakes, 2005
Lion Career
2007: A force behind the plate, has started every game this season... hit a two RBI double in win at North Carolina (2/11)... had two hits, including an RBI double against Washington (2/24)... hit a single and a double in victory over Bethune-Cookman (3/3)... smacked an RBI double in close loss to Colorado State (3/9)... had two hits and two RBI in win over BYU (3/10)... went a perfect 2-for-2 with two RBI in upset win over No. 8 Texas (3/16)... had three hits, including a double, in two game sweep of St. Francis (3/28)... hit an RBI double in 8-3 win over Wisconsin (3/31)... belted her first homerun of the season in 3-0 win over Kent State (4/11)... hit first grand slam of her career and also had an RBI single to tie the school record for RBI in a game with five against Illinois (game 2-4/22)... tallied two doubles and two RBI in sweep of Maryland (5/2).
2006: The Lions[apos] starting catcher, she earned Big Ten Player of the Week honors on March 27 after her outstanding performance at East Carolina[apos]s Pirate Invitational where she batted almost .450 over a five-game stretch, including a dramatic game-winning homerun to lift Penn State over host East Carolina, 2-1, late in the game on March 25... Haines batted .467 and slammed home six RBIs in 15 at-bats, going 7-for-15 with one of her RBI coming on her second homerun of the weekend, a solo blast in the sixth inning that lifted the Lions above East Carolina and preserved a then-16 game win-streak... one of only six Nittany Lions to be named Big Ten Player of the Week... started 55 games, racking-up 40 hits... had five homeruns, second best on the team, and three doubles... second on the team with 25 RBIs, including five game-winning RBIs... had seven multiple-hit games... had three three-RBI games: vs. Kent State (3/24), vs. St. Francis (3/29) and Bucknell (4/11)... against Bucknell (4/11, game 2) has two hits, three RBIs, one homerun and scored two runs... went 2-for-6 in the St. Francis series, driving home four RBI, including two homeruns... was 2-for-2 with two RBIs vs. Detroit Mercy (3/8)... batted .400 (6-for-15) with two RBIs in NCAA action, including a 2-for-3 performance vs. Long Island (5/20) and a 3-for-5 outing at Hofstra (5/21)... had an eight-game hitting streak from March 24-31.
2005: Named Great Lakes All-Region along with three other Lion teammates... Penn State[apos]s Defensive MVP... started all 59 games at catcher... notched four game-winning RBIs this season... one of five players with 25 or more RBIs... earned 16 extra base hits... drove six homeruns over the wall... Penn State defeated No. 1 Michigan (4/22) when at the top of the seventh Haines pounded a hit over the left field wall to bring in the game-winning RBI and defeat eventual NCAA champion Michigan, 2-1, in Ann Arbor... against Eastern Kentucky (3/4), Haines went 3-for-3 in the 8-0 win, driving in five runs including the game-winner when her single in the top of the first brought in Jen Williams... also hit the game-winning runs against Kent State (4/6) and Illinois (4/16)... Haines hit 10 doubles, two of them against Michigan State (3/6)... she hit two homeruns against Akron (4/29) to guide the Lions to a 9-1 victory over the Zips... drove in a season total of 36 RBIs, second most for the Lions.
High School
Earned four varsity letters at Martin Luther King... team captain for two years... two-time first team all-county and two-time second team all-county selection... her team captured three consecutive league championships from 2002-04... helped her team to a C.I.F. Division 3 championship in 2002... during her club career, was the MVP of the national qualifier in 2001... was also named all-California at catcher.
Personal
The daughter of Lee and Denise Haines, her full name is Hollee Anna Haines... she looks to major in journalism... has an older brother Josh [26]... born August 11, 1986 she likes movies and concerts.
Coach[apos]s Quote
'Hollee is coming off an off-season injury. She did not play this fall and that reignited a spark in her. Hollee learned a tremendous amount watching from the dugout and is ready to anchor us behind the plate again this season. She is a great field general and we are anxious to have her back in the lineup and be a force for us offensively.'