2017 Softball Roster

16 Lauren Herschberg

  • Class Senior
  • Position INF
  • Height 5-7
  • Highschool Trabuco Hills
  • Hometown Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.

Biography

2017: Second Team All-BIG EAST…Started in all 55 games…Batted .311 on the season…Had 56 hits, 42 runs scored, 37 RBIs, 14 doubles, seven home runs and two triples…Led the team in runs scored and total bases…Second on the team in hits, RBIs, doubles and triples…Recorded her 200th hit on April 14 against Georgetown, becoming just the 12th Wildcat to achieve the feat…Hit her second career grand slam in the 8-1 win over Providence on May 6…Joins Allie Wisniewski as the only Villanova student-athletes to hit two grand slams in their careers…Finishes her career with 52 doubles, which is tied for first place on the all-time Villanova list with Megan O’Leary…Named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll on three occasions (March 27, April 17, and May 8).

2016: First Team All-BIG EAST...Finished tied for second on the team with a batting average of .347... Appeared in 50 games for the Wildcats... Her 170 at bats were tops on the team...Her 12 doubles were tied for first on the team...Compiled 59 hits which was first on the Wildcats...Finished 2016 with six homers and 37 RBI with 36 runs and a triple... Had a fielding percentage of .907... Named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll four times (Feb. 22, Mar. 14, April 18, April 25).

2015:
Finished second on the team with her batting average of .309... Appeared and started in all 54 games for the Wildcats... Her 178 at bats were second on the team and third in the BIG EAST... Her 13 doubles were tied for fourth in the conference... She had 55 hits which was eighth in the BIG EAST... Finished 2015 with four homers and 31 RBI with 27 runs and a triple... Had a fielding percentage of .917... Named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll (March 2, April 13).

2014:
Appeared in all but one of the team's 52 games with 50 starts solidifying the hot corner ... Led the team in several categories, which included a .291 batting average, .317 on base percentage, 46 hits and 13 doubles ... Scored 12 runs, added 14 RBI and stole two bases ... Registered a team-high 13 multi-hit games with eight of those occurring in BIG EAST contests ... Had a team best eight game hitting streak (3/22-4/3) ... Registered five-straight games with a hit (4/17-21), including multi-hit performances in four of those matches ... Hit safely in 31 games ... Drove in a pair of runs and added two hits in a win over La Salle (4/9) ... Went 3-4 with two RBI and a run versus Butler (4/12) ... Singled, doubled, drove in a run and scored in a conference win over Providence (4/17) ... Was a perfect 3-3 with a run, RBI, double and two stolen bases in a shutout victory versus Penn (4/29).

Trabuco Hills High School: Member of both the Softball and Track and Field teams ... Played catcher and first base on the softball team ... Named the 2013 Track and Field MVP as a discus and shot put athlete ... Earned the Track and Field Best Newcomer Award in 2011.

Personal: Born 1/20/95 in Newport Beach, Calif. ... Second oldest of Rick and Brenda Herschberg ... Has three brothers, Alex (20), Andrew (15) and Aaron (12) ... Played for OC Elite for five years and attended National every season ... Majoring in Computer Science...Chose Villanova for the school's amazing academics along with playing the sport she loves with a great group of girls.

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Historical Player Information

  • 16

    2014Freshman

    1B/3B
    5'7"
    16
  • 16

    2015Sophomore

    INF
    5'7"
    16
  • 16

    2016Junior

    INF
    5'7"
    16
  • 16

    2017Senior

    INF
    5'7"
    16