Honors and Awards
• 2017 Second Team All-MEC
• 2017 MEC All-Tournament Team
• 2017 MEC Pitcher of the Week (5/1)
• 2017 D2 Softball HERO of the Week (5/5)
• 2016-17 Shepherd University Female Athlete of the Year
• 2015 MEC All-Tournament Team
2017: Recorded
single-season records with 35 appearances and 31 starts ... gained second team All-MEC honors as she led the team with a 21-7 mark with a 2.25 earned run average ... fanned 107 and walked 27 in 177.1 innings ... led the team with 17 complete games and three shutouts ... scored a pair of runs as a pinch-runner ... garnered MEC Pitcher of the Week and D2 Softball HERO of the Week accolades in early May after posting a 4-1 week highlighted by a complete game eight inning two-hit win against Fairmont State ... named to MEC All-Tournament Team ... gained second team D2CCA All-Region honors .. holds Shepherd marks for most appearances in a career (116), most games started in a career (96), and most innings pitched in a career (576.2) ... named Shepherd Female Athlete of the Year.
2016: Appeared in 27 games with 24 starts ... posted an 11-9 mark with a team best 2.08 ERA ... fanned 99 in 127.2 innings ... tossed 10 complete games, one shut out and one save ... helped pitch a no-hitter against Virginia Union in the Salem Tournament (3.0 IP, 6 K, 1 BB) ... posted a .921 fielding percentage in 38 chances ... garnered MEC All-Academic honors ... a Ram Nation Scholarship award winner.
2015: Appeared and started in 23 games ... posted an 11-12 overall mark with a team best 3.84 ERA...fanned 70 in 129.1 innings ... tossed 15 complete games and three shutouts ... led the Shepherd pitching staff in virtually every statistical category ... fired a five inning no-hitter in the season opener against Shaw ... named an MEC All-Tournament Team selection.
2014: Appeared in 31 games with 18 starts ... posted a 9-12 mark with one save and a 4.03 ERA ... fanned 60 in 142.1 innings ... tossed 11 complete games and one shutout.
Prior to Shepherd: A 2013 graduate of Morgantown High School where she played softball for Lorri Lipscomb...a four-year varsity softball starter, Hanson also lettered four years in golf ... a First Team All-State selection in 2013 when she led Morgantown to a school-record 21 wins ... a two-time
Dominion Post Player of the Year and three-time Second Team All-State choice ... named to 2013 OVAC and North-South All-Star squads ... turned down a Division I golf scholarship to play softball at Shepherd.
Personal: The daughter of Ken and Karen Hanson...her brother, Travis, played golf at West Virginia Wesleyan...majoring in accounting.
