Maggie Ballentine - 2023 - Softball

2023 Softball Roster

Brandon Morgan

Jace Delgado

Brandon Morgan

Jace Delgado

Awards:

2023 NCAC Player of the Year
2023 First-Team All-NCAC
Named NCAC Athlete of the Week (5/1/23)
Team Captain as a senior
2020-21, 2021-22 & 2022-23 NCAC Academic Honor Roll
2020-21 & 2021-22 Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete
2021-22 Chi Alpha Sigma Inductee
Member of 2023 Academic All-District® Team, selected by College Sports Communicators

2023 (Senior):

Started all 35 games as the team's starting second baseman
Was second on the team with a .379 batting average
Led the squad with 47 hits, 30 runs and 15 doubles
Was second on the team with a 1.037 OPS and four home runs, and was third on the team with 20 RBI's
Her 15 doubles are tied for the seventh most in a single season in program history
Ranked 10th in the NCAC in batting average and was first in doubles, tied for first in runs, third in hits and total bases, tied for fourth in home runs, sixth in slugging percentage, tied for seventh in RBI's and on base percentage, and tied for eighth in walks
Named the NCAC Athlete of the Week (5/1/23) after going a combined 6-for-8 (.750) with four RBI's, three runs, two doubles and a home run during Denison's sweep over Wittenberg (Apr. 26). She finished 3-for-4 with three RBI's, two runs and two doubles in an 8-5 win in game one and was 3-for-4 with a home run in a narrow 3-2 win in game number two
Recorded her 100th career hit in Denison's 8-0 win at Capital (Apr. 8)
She had an 11-game hitting streak from March 30 to April 18 and had 13 multi-hit games
Was the fifth Big Red player to be named the NCAC Player of the Year
Named First-Team All-NCAC and was a member of the Academic All-District® Team
Career .324 hitter with a career on base percentage of .375, a career slugging percentage of .505 and 12 career home runs
Her 12 career home runs are tied for the 10th most in program history

2022 (Junior):

Started all 41 games and hit .331
Was second on the team with 48 hits, 33 runs and seven home runs, and was third with 29 RBI's
Seven home runs are tied for 10th in a single season in program history
Added nine doubles
Had a .889 fielding percentage
Led the team with 74 assists and added 54 putouts
Had an 11-game hitting streak
Was 4-for-5 with six RBI's and a grand slam at Wittenberg (Apr. 26)

2021 (Sophomore):

2020 (First-Year):

Personal:

Political science major with a minor in Spanish
Daughter of Julie and Shawn Ballentine
Brother, Robert is currently a freshman football player at DePauw University
Won an IHSAA Softball State Championship in 2017 and was named to the National Honors Society at Crown Point High School
Member of DSAAC (Denison's Student-Athlete Advisory Council) and works as a peer mentor and athletic training first-aide on campus
Is a Political Science department fellow as well as a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society
Led the DUSB Votes project, where the Denison softball team led voter registration sessions for the Denison Community. Also worked as an athletic representative for DU Votes and led her team to 100 percent voter registration for five elections

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