ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN (2016)
2016 (SOPHOMORE YEAR)
Was one of four players to start all 54 games…Notched 52 hits with three doubles and one triple…Drove in 15 RBI and scored 29 times…Posted a .348 slugging percentage and a .328 on-base percentage…Stole six bases on six attempts to rank second on the team…Finished the season with a .299 batting average in 174 at-bats and eight sacrifice bunts…Had 16 multi-hit games and two multi-RBI games…Posted a 10-game hitting streak and a 15-game reached base streak…Brought in the game-winning run against Bucknell (April 13) with a walk-off single…Went 3-for-3 at the dish with three RBI and scored twice against Rutgers (March 27)…Tallied 90 putouts and 96 assists at second base for a .967 fielding percentage.
Appeared in 56 games, including 54 starts at second base...Batted .291 (46-for-158) with 46 hits, 36 runs, six doubles, a triple and 15 RBI...Had two stolen bases...Posted 11 multi-hit games, including five with 3 or more hits...Notched an 18-game hit streak from March 25 to April 19...Streak included three-hit days vs. Michigan State (March 27), Bucknell (April 1), Wisconsin (April 3) and Maryland (April 18) and two-hit performances against Wisconsin (April 3- game 2), Indiana (April 11) and Maryland (April 17)...During streak, had two RBI against Robert Morris (March 25) and a RBI vs. Michigan State (March 28 and 29), Bucknell (April 1), Indiana (April 11) and Maryland (April 17)...Went 1-for-2 with two RBI vs. Arkansas (Feb. 6)...Brought in two RBI and scored a run vs. LIU Brooklyn (Feb. 7)...Drove in a RBI vs. Fordham (Feb. 27)...Went 2-for-3 against Pacific (March 10)...Scored twice against Rutgers (April 25)...Drove in go-ahead run at Pitt (April 28)...Went 3-for-5 with three runs scored against Maryland (May 7).
BEFORE PENN STATE
Four-year letterwinner for West Ranch and Head Coach Bob Shults...Helped lead the Wildcats to two consecutive Foothill League Championships (2012-13) and the state quarterfinals in 2013...Earned Second Team All-Foothill League accolades in 2012 and 2013, and first team honors in 2014...Batted .448, scoring 37 runs in 30 games her senior season as a team captain...Played for So Cal Choppers and Head Coach Gary Fausett...Captain of the So Cal Choppers traveling team for the 2013-14 season after she helped lead the team to a top-three finish in the 2012 Triple Crown Sports Nationals...Played alongside current Nittany Lion Kristina Brackpool with the Choppers in 2011 and 2012.
PERSONAL
Full name is Mollie Sorenson...Born on June 10, 1996 in Valencia, California...Parents are Skip and Carrie Sorenson...Has four siblings, Ryan, Kylie, Camille and Brielle...Kylie plays softball at Stanford...Majoring in human development and family studies.