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2026 Softball Roster

Scott Walstrom, NIU
Brian McWalters

16 Cara Cruthers

  • Class Senior
  • Position C/UTL
  • Hometown Bartlett, Ill.
  • High School South Elgin

Biography

2025: Saw action in 11 games….had 1 start….batting average of .111….1 run and 1 hit….1 RBI….1 triple….Slugging percentage of .333….on-base percentage of .200

2024: Saw action in 28 games….15 starts….batting average of .205….slugging percentage of .227…..on-base percentage .255…1-for-1 stolen bases…..9 hits….1 double….4 runs….3 RBIs….10 total bases….27 putouts….7 assists...Academic All-MAC....Easton/NFCA Scholar All-America

2023: Playing catcher and third base, started 46 of the 48 games she played in … Batted .270 and notched 34 hits, the sixth-best marks on the team … Belted three triples which tied for the most on the team … Her 17 RBI were the fourth-most on the team … Had the second-most assists on the team, including a season-high five against BGSU on May 6, with 68 … Logged a five-game hit streak from April 25-29 … Had four games in which she posted two hits.

High School: Two-year letterwinner South Elgin Storm ... Member of back-to-back Upstate Eight Conference championship teams ... Career .430 hitter with 68 hits in 158 at bats with 35 going for extra bases ... Tallied six home runs in each of her last two seasons with the Storm ... Garnered All-Upstate Eight Conference honors as a freshman and junior ... Named to the High Honor Roll from 2017-21 and an Illinois State Scholar in the fall semester of 2021 ... Currently plays for the Wasco Diamonds (2018-present) which placed third at the PGF Nationals in July 2021 ... Grandfather Mike Szucs played on Purdue's 1967 Rose Bowl Team.

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Historical Player Information

  • 16

    2023Freshman

    UTL
    5'6"
    16
  • 16

    2024Sophomore

    C/UTL
    16
  • 16

    2025Junior

    C/UTL
    16
  • 16

    2026Senior

    C/UTL
    16