Central Michigan University Athletics
2027 Softball Roster
Jersey Number 11
Emma Lotus
- Hometown:
- New Lenox, Ill.
- Class:
- Senior
- Bats/Throws:
- L/L
- High School:
- St. Laurence
- Instagram:
- @emma.lotus
- Twitter:
- @emmalotus11
- Major:
- Secondary Education - English
- Previous Team:
- Beverly Bandits
2026
2025
2024
High School
Travel Ball
Personal
- Started all 49 games in center field
- Recorded a career high 169 at-bats
- Scored 28 runs for the second straight season
- Had 53 hits
- Hit a career high .314 in her junior year
- Recorded four doubles and one triple
- Tallied 20 RBI
- Drew seven walks
- Struck out just 13 times
- Stole six bases
- Finished T2 in the conference with six sacrifice bunts
- Started her 100th career game against Ball State (3/21/26)
- Recorded her 100th career hit at Buffalo (4/18/26)
- Posted a 25-game reached base streak and ended the season with a 16-game stretch
- Had a hit in 10 straight games (3/14/26-4/3/26)
- Charted 12 multi-hit games
- Scored the walk-off run against Southern Indiana (3/1/26) the same day her sister had the walk-off RBI for Louisville to beat #13 Stanford to win the series opening ACC play
- Named Academic All-MAC
- Easton/NFCA Academic All-America Scholar Athlete
2025
- Had a breakout season starting 44 games, appearing in 49
- Posted a .311 batting average
- Hit .369 in MAC play
- Recorded 38 hits
- Had five doubles
- Tallied 10 multi-hit games with three against Miami (OH) (4/6/25)
- Scored 28 runs with a season high three against Western Michigan (4/1/25)
- Hit her first career home run against Miami (OH) (4/6/25)
- Drew 17 walks
- Struck out just 10 times in 122 at-bats
- Had just five strikeouts in 65 MAC at-bats
- Went 10-11 with stolen basea
- Strung together a 7-game hit streak (3/21/25-4/1/25)
- Tallied an eight-game reached base streak
- Charted a .976 fielding percentage in center field
- Had 77 putouts and six assists
- Named 2025 Academic All-MAC
2024
- Appeared in 39 games with 31 starts
- Had 19 hits
- Recorded four extra-base hits (two doubles and two triples)
- Charted 10 RBI
- Drew 11 walks
- Has seven sacrifice bunts
- Stole seven bases
- Had multi-hit games against Eastern Kentucky (2/17/24), Miami (OH) (4/20/24) and Akron (4/26/24)
- Recorded a 10-game reached base streak
High School
- A four-year starter at St. Laurence
- Earned All-Conference honors in the Girls Catholic Athletic Conference in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 seasons
- Named All-Area by the Daily Southtown in 2021, 2022 and 2023
- Was an All-State honoree in the 2021 and 2023 seasons
- A member of the Illinois Softball Coaches Association All-State honoree list twice
- Hit .520 in her junior season
- A member of NHS and the student-athlete leadership council
Travel Ball
- Played with the Beverly Bandits from 2017-23
- Finished 3rd at the PGF Nationals in 2022 and 2nd in 2023
Personal
- Daughter to Pete and Nikki Lotus
- Has four siblings, Easton, Demi, Mickey and Peter
- Older sister, Easton, graduated as a member of the Louisville Softball team in the spring of 2026
- Competed against Easton in college at Louisville in the 2025 season
- Studying Secondary Education to become a high school English teacher
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