Softball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Dana Sorensen begins her second season as assistant coach for the Beavers after spending three seasons as an assistant at UC Davis.
Currently still playing on the Professional Fastpitch Xtreme (PFX) Tour, Sorensen played two seasons in the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) league. She spent the 2004 season with the New England Riptide before the following season with the Arizona Heat. She was a member of the USA Softball Elite Team in 2005, in which Walker was an assistant coach, and she attended the USA Softball National Team Camp five times.
All of her professional experience came after one of the best pitching careers in school history at Stanford from 2000-04. Sorensen racked up five no-hitters and two perfect games during her career, amassing three NFCA All-America honors (first-team selection in 2001 and 2004, second-team in 2000) and four All-Pacific Region accolades. She posted a 105-36 career record with a 1.05 ERA, including a 34-win campaign as a senior. Her solid work in the circle helped lead the Cardinal to a pair of Women's College World Series trips and until the 2008 season, she held every single season pitching record.
Sorensen earned a bachelor's degree in both sociology and communications from Stanford in 2004. She received a master's in exercise and sport science from North Carolina in 2006.
