2026 • JUNIOR SEASON
Awards: Garnered recognition as both a Big Ten Conference Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten Conference honoree in her first season with softball.
Season: Appeared in 28 games while making 21 starts during her first collegiate softball season, serving primarily as an outfielder for the Nittany Lions… Finished the year with a .280 batting average after collecting 14 hits in 50 at-bats… Scored 14 runs and drove in three while adding a double, nine walks and four stolen bases… Posted a .419 on-base percentage and reached base safely in a variety of ways, including three hit-by-pitches… Registered three multiple-hit performances and provided Penn State with quality depth in both the lineup and outfield rotation… Was flawless defensively, recording 27 putouts and two assists without committing an error during the season.
Wisconsin (3/20): Recorded her first collegiate hit and scored a run in her first start on the diamond. at Rutgers (3/27): Turned in her first collegiate multi-hit performance, finishing 2-for-3 with a double, run scored and stolen base. Maryland (4/4): Contributed offensively with a hit, RBI, walk, stolen base and run scored. at Ohio State (4/17): Authored one of her strongest performances of the season, going 2-for-3 with an RBI and walk. at Ohio State (4/18): Reached base twice behind a hit and walk while scoring a pair of runs in the B1G road win. Saint Francis (4/21): Produced her best statistical game of the year, finishing 2-for-2 with three runs scored, a walk and a stolen base. at Illinois (4/25): Delivered an RBI single in conference action. B1G Tournament Second Round vs. UCLA (5/7): Recorded a hit in her second consecutive postseason start.
2024 • REDSHIRT FRESHMAN | WOMEN’S SOCCER
Awards: Picked up Academic All-Big Ten Conference and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors in the postseason.
Season: Did not see action due to a season-ending injury… Joined the Penn State softball program following the conclusion of the 2024-25 academic year after medically retiring from women’s soccer, beginning practice with the team in the fall semester of the 2025-26 season.
2023 • FRESHMAN SEASON | WOMEN’S SOCCER
Season: Did not see action her freshman season, utilizing her redshirt.
HIGH SCHOOL
Attended West Geauga High School in Chesterland, Ohio… She played travel softball with the Ohio Outlaws 05 National program under the direction of coach James Leggins from 2019 to 2021 before pursuing her soccer career full-time… Competed in two seasons of varsity softball before turning her attention full-time to women’s soccer… As a women’s soccer prospect, she was named Conference MVP and First Team All-Conference in 2022 in addition to landing a pair of GCSSCA First Team accolades… Flesher was named the News Herald Player of the Year in 2022 and a First Team All-Ohio selection… She was named a United Soccer Coaches All-Central Region selection in her senior season as well as a Chagrin Valley Conference Sportsmanship and OSSCA Academic Excellence award that same year… Played for Cleveland Force Soccer Club for three years, adding a selection as an ECNL Tennessee National Selection Game Player in 2022.
PERSONAL
Born in the spring of 2005 and hailing from Chesterland, Ohio, Frankee Flesher is the only child of Nicole and Jerome Flesher… Her cousin, Annie, attended Penn State from 2012 to 2016… As a student at West Geauga High School, Flesher was a member of the National Honors Society… Before arriving at Penn State, Flesher garnered the Penn State Alumni Association Cleveland Chapter Scholarship as a member of the women’s soccer program… She served as a women’s soccer representative on the Penn State Student-Athlete Advisory Committee over the course of the 2024-25 academic year… While at Penn State, Flesher is studying kinesiology in the College of Health and Human Development and hopes to leverage that degree into a doctoral program in chiropractic medicine with the intention of opening her own practice that prioritizes working with athletes… In her spare time, she enjoys working out, cooking, painting and drawing, hiking and playing soccer.