Karen Folts of Penn Yan was one of Coach Gino Olivieri’s first recruiting class of 2006-07 and was largely responsible for the team’s success in 2009.
Karen suffered an injury this season that kept her out of 15 games, returning strong but cautious to prevent further damage to her knee.
Karen Folts was a four-year starting shortstop and second baseman and a four-year captain for the Saxons.
She finished her career with a 143 hits and a .338 batting average. Her 93 runs scored, 105 RBIs, 30 doubles and 16 home runs all rank second on the AU career list.
Folts holds school records for home runs in a season (11, 2009) and in a game (three, at Pitt-Bradford, 2009), and RBIs in a game (eight, at Pitt-Bradford, 2009).
Her 13 doubles in 2009 was a school single-season record at the time. She was a two-time First Team Empire 8 all-star (2008 and 2009) and was the 2009 Empire 8 Conference Co-Player of the Year after hitting .450 with 14 runs, 14 RBIs and six homeruns in conference play.
She also earned National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Northeast Region Second Team honors and CoSIDA District I Third Team all-academic honors in 2009.
In April, Karen was awarded the Eastern College Athletic Conference Merit Medal Award for excellence on the fields of competition and in the classroom as well as the Muriel Strong Morley Award given to an outstanding woman athlete given by Franklin Morley in memory of his wife Muriel who was Alfred’s top woman athlete in 1943.
Along with this she has also been nominated for the NCAA woman of the Year by Alfred University.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree majoring in Biology, with a minor in Chemistry May 15, 2010.
Karen will be attending the Physicians Assistants Graduate Program at Le Moyne College in Syracuse in August.
