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2017 Softball

4 Shannon Stricker

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Conwell Egan
  • Hometown Morrisville, Pa.

Biography

  • Four-year starter (148 of 147 career games)
  • Posted a career batting average of .398 with 44 doubles, eight triples, and 11 home runs
  • Also recorded a career slugging percentage of .581 and an on-base percentage of .425
  • Was the 2016 Landmark Conference Player of the Year and four-time All-Landmark selection
  • Also earned conference, regional, and national academic awards during her senior year
  • Finished her career ranked highly in the following all-time statistical categories: at-bats (1st), assists (1st), doubles (2nd), most total bases (2nd), runs scored (tied for 2nd), hits (2nd), RBI (3rd), most total bases (2nd), highest batting average (4th), defensive chances (4th), home runs (8th), triples (tied for 8th), slugging percentage (9th), on-base percentage (11th), most putouts (13th), and fielding percentage (23rd)

Senior Year (2017)

  • Game-by-Game Statistics
  • Was named All-Landmark Conference Second Team after starting all 35 games at shortstop for the Royals
  • Also was selected as the Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete, and to the CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team and to the CoSIDA Academic All-American Third Team.
  • Posted a .419 batting average with 49 hits including eight doubles, two triples, and three home runs
  • Totaled 32 RBI and scored 24 runs while amassing 70 total bases
  • Had a .598 slugging percentage and a .424 on-base percentage
  • Went 7-for-8 in stolen base attempts
  • Recorded 18 multi-hit games including a season-high four hits against Penn State Hezleton on April 20
  • Recorded 61 putouts and 85 assists for a .907 fielding percentage
  • Led team in batting average, slugging percentage, at-bats, hits, RBI, home runs, total bases, stolen bases, and assists, and tied for the team-lead in triples
  • Ranked among Scranton's all-time single-season leaders in: assists (4th), at-bats (7th), hits (8th), RBI (tied for 9th), total bases (11th), doubles (tied for 18th), and defensive chances (tied for 19th)

Junior Year (2016)

  • Game-by-Game Statistics
  • Started all 36 games for the Royals at shortstop, batting a team-high .403 in 119 at-bats
  • Posted 48 hits, 11 doubles, four triples and four home runs, while scoring 33 runs
  • 33 runs were fifth highest in a season in program history
  • 48 hits were the eighth highest in program history in a campaign, 32 RBI were in a tie for ninth highest in a season
  • Struck out only three times the entire season, two of which came in the first game of the season
  • Had at least one hit in 30 of the 36 games she started, including a season-best 4-for-4 performance against Juniata on Apr. 16. Had two doubles, a triple, and three RBI in win for Royals
  • Posted 14 multiple-hit games throughout the course of the season
  • Had a 18 game hitting streak during the season and posted a hit in 19 of the last 20 games the Royals played in on the year
  • Posted a .951 fielding percentage on 164 chances, committing just eight errors
  • Turned two double plays, with 90 assists and 66 put outs

Sophomore Year (2015)

  • Game-by-Game Statistics
  • One of two players (Jacqueline DeSarro was the other) to start all 34 games
  • Led Royals in batting average (.374), at-bats (121), hits (45), doubles (15), RBI (32), total bases (73), and slugging percentage (.603)
  • Was voted first-team All-Landmark Conference in a ballot conducted among the conference's seven head coaches
  • Hit safely in 25 games, including 16 multi-hit games
  • Opened the season with a 7-game hitting streak--batting .423 during this span--and had a 6-game hitting streak to end the year (hit .524 during this streak)
  • Drove in at least one run 16 times, including nine multi-RBI games
  • Belted a home run and drove in a then season-high four runs in a 9-8 win over King's College in eight innings on April 9 in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania
  • Also drove in four runs in a 12-6 victory over Hunter College in the first game of a doubleheader on April 16 at the Jessup Youth Sports Complex and in the season-ending 7-3 victory over Muhlenberg College in the second game of a doubleheader on April 28
  • Defensively, led the Royals in assists with 80 from her shortstop position and finished with a .944 fielding percentage
  • Struck out only three times in a 128 total plate appearances
  • Led Landmark Conference in doubles, fourth in total bases and triples, fifth in slugging percentage, sixth in hits, and seventh in batting average
  • Her 15 doubles is currently tied for the second-most in a single-season in Royals' history; in addition, her 124 at-bats is fourth, 45 hits and 124 total bases are tied for eighth, and 32 RBI are tied for ninth on Scranton's single-season list

Freshman Year (2014)

  • Game-by-Game Statistics
  • Earned second-team All-Landmark Conference honors after leading the Royals in hitting (.410), at-bats (100), runs scored (26), hits (41), RBI (24), total bases (51), and slugging percentage (.510)
  • Also tied for the team-lead in doubles (7) and stolen bases (3)
  • Hit safely in 23 games, including 12 multi-hit games
  • Ended the season on a 7-game hitting streak, batting .577 during this span (15-for-26)
  • Also had hitting streaks of 5 and 4 games
  • Drove in at least one run in 15 games, including six games with at least two
  • Drove in a season-high four runs in an 11-9 loss to Hunter College in the second game of a non-conference doubleheader at Randall's Field in New York City on April 25
  • One of two players to see action in all 29 games and started 28 times
  • Struck out only once in 107 total plate appearances
  • Recorded a .939 fielding percentage as the starting shortstop
  • Led team in assists (63)

Awards & Honors

  • Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2017)
  • Landmark Conference Player of the Year (2016)
  • Landmark Conference 1st-Team Selection (2015, 2016)
  • Landmark Conference 2nd-Team Selection (2014, 2017)
  • Landmark Conference Athlete of the Week (March 23, 2015; April 27, 2015; April 18, 2016)
  • University of Scranton Athlete of the Week (March 24, 2014; May 2, 2016)
  • CoSIDA Academic All-American Third Team (2017)
  • CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team (2016, 2017)
  • Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll (2015, 2017)

Personal/High School

  • Daughter of Glenn and Sandra Stricker
  • Prepped at Conwell-Egan Catholic, earning four letters each in softball and field hockey
  • Helped softball team win back-to-back District 12 Championships
  • Was a second team All-State selection in her senior season and the Philadelphia Catholic League MVP after her senior year, as well
  • First Team All-Catholic selection three times throughout her career
  • First Team All-Golden Team, Trentonian Second Team All-Area and Second Team All-Southeastern PA as a senior

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

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    2014Freshman

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    2015Sophomore

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    2016Junior

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    2017Senior

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