2016 Softball Roster
Vanessa Scoarste
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Position:
- INF
- Hometown:
- Medina, Ohio
- High School:
- Medina
Career
• Three-time Academic All-MAC (2016, 2017, 2018)
• Part of winningest class in program history (140 wins)
2018
• Academic All-MAC
• Played in 38 games and made 20 starts
• Hit .179 (10-for-56)
• Clubbed one double, one home run and drove in five runs
• Smashed first career home run against UMBC (Mar. 27)
2017
• Played in 47 games while making 36 starts
• Tallied two doubles and four RBIs
• Went 3-for-4 with 2 RBIs in 9-3 win over Northern Illinois at the MAC Tournament, in the first of three wins in one day en route to the MAC Tournament Championship (May 13)
• Made catch in left field crashing into the wall at #17 Michigan (Mar. 18)
2016
• Appeared in 34 games and made seven starts
• Totaled two hits, two stolen bases and 10 runs scored
• Hit a double at Ohio State (May 4)
2015
• Appeared in 28 games with one start
• Made first collegiate start at Pittsburgh (April 8)
• Collected first collegiate hit with a double vs. Rider (March 21)
• Collected first collegiate RBI vs. Robert Morris (April 22)
• Scored seven runs
Prior to Kent State
• First Team All-Gazette all four years of career
• Barney Ellis Summit All Star Select in 2011, 2012 and 2013
• Earned NOC All Conference in 2012 and 2014
• Second team All-Northeast Ohio 2012 and first team All-Northeast Ohio 2014
• Earned second team All-Ohio, first team All-Gazette, Gazette MVP and NOC player of the year following senior season at Medina High School, where she was coached by Kent State alumna Jessica Toocheck
• Earned NOC Scholar-Athlete award in 2012
• OHSFSCA Scholar-Athlete award and Dolores Billhardt Scholarship award in 2014
Personal
• Daughter of John and Shelly Scoarste
• Has one sibling, J.T.
• Majoring in Chemistry
