Editor's Note: From May 18-22, the Marist Athletics Department will announce the winners of this year's Senior Awards. For more information about Marist's Senior Awards, please click here.
 
Schedule: Athletic Director's Award (May 18) | President's Academic Achievement Award (May 18) | Team Strength & Conditioning Award (May 19) | Individual Strength & Conditioning Award (May 19) | Pizzani Award (May 20) | Female Sportsperson of the Year (May 21) | Male Sportsperson of the Year (May 22)

POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Claire Oberdorf of softball and women's basketball is Female Co-Sportsperson of the Year.
 
Here are some facts from Oberdorf's remarkable career:
 

Accolades

• NFCA Top 10 Freshman, 2016
• MAAC Rookie of the Year, 2016
• First Team All-MAAC, 2016
• NFCA First Team All-Region, 2016
• First Team All-ECAC, 2016
• MAAC All-Rookie Team, 2016
• Played in NCAA Tournament, 2016
• MAAC All-Tournament Team, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 (basketball)
• Second Team All-MAAC, 2018, 2019
• CoSIDA Academic All-District, 2020
• Senior CLASS Award candidate, 2020
• Five-time MAAC Weekly Award winner
• Ranks in the top 10 in softball program history in five categories: third in stolen bases (50), tied for sixth in triples (seven), seventh in batting average (.329), 10^th in runs scored (106), 10^th in RBIs (105).
• Ranked 23rd in the NCAA in minutes played, 2016-17 basketball season
• Played in 264 total games (167 softball, 97 basketball)

 

Historical Impact

• Previously was named the Advantage Strength & Conditioning Award Winner.
• The only other time a female student-athlete won Sportsperson of the Year and the Advantage Strength & Conditioning Award came in 2002. Diesa Seidel of women's basketball earned both honors in the first year of the Strength & Conditioning award.
• This is the third time in the last five years a softball player has won Sportsperson of the Year, and fourth time overall.
• The last time a member of the softball team won the award was Gabrielle Kelliher in 2018.
• With Rebekah Hand sharing the award with Oberdorf, the women's basketball program has won the award a record 16 times.

?? Congratulations to Claire Oberdorf from @MaristWBB & @MaristSoftball, this year's female Co-Sportsperson Award!
The Sportsperson Award is dedicated to student-athlete(s) in the class for outstanding achievement in their sports.

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— Marist Athletics (@MaristAthletics) May 21, 2020

 
 

About the Award

Marist's Sportsperson of the Year Award has been given annually since 1969, the longest standing award in the history of the Athletics Department. From 1969-84, the award was given to the top individual in the class as a result of an outstanding career in his/her sport. Since 1985, the Sportsperson of the Year Award has been given to the top male and female student-athlete(s) in the class based on outstanding achievement in their sports.
 

Up Next

Male Sportsperson of the Year, our final senior award, will be announced Friday at 1 p.m.