2025 Softball Roster

20 Melanie Watters

  • Position Pitcher/Infielder
  • Class Senior
  • Height 5-2
  • Hometown Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
  • Highschool Southern Door

Biography

2024: Played in 11 games, starting two… Batted .167 with two hits in 12 at bats… Drove in a pair of runs and also walked once… Reached on a fielder’s choice to drive in the run to clinch an eight-run rule six-inning win over Wisconsin Lutheran March 29… Recipient of Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Scholar-Athlete Award.

2023: Played in 22 games, starting 10… Batted .189 with seven hits in 37 at bats, finishing with three doubles, four runs batted in and two runs scored… Went 1-for-2 with a two-run double against Roger Williams (R.I.) March 12… Also hit doubles in both games of a doubleheader against Rockford April 23… Recipient of NACC Scholar-Athlete Award.

2022: Appeared in seven games as a freshman, starting three and posting one hit in 11 official at bats (.091 average) plus two walks… Made collegiate debut versus Pitt-Greensburg March 7… Recorded first collegiate hit in second game of a doubleheader against St. Norbert April 16… Recipient of NACC Scholar-Athlete Award.

High School: Four-year letter winner on softball team and also lettered two years each in volleyball and basketball… Second team all-Packerland Conference pitcher as a senior… Member of WIAA state qualifier team as a sophomore… Honor roll student and member of National Honor Society.
 
Personal: Born July 14, 2003… Daughter of James & Cari Watters and has one brother (Jordan) and one sister (Taylor)… Majoring in biology.


Career ambition/goal: Work in the health field helping those in need
Favorite TV show: Grey’s Anatomy
Favorite music artist: Bruno Mars
Favorite food: Watermelon
Favorite holiday: New Year’s
Greatest sports accomplishments: Playing at state in 2019; only one strikeout in 78 at bats my senior year
Why did you choose Lakeland? Although it wasn't clear at first, over time I realized all the good things about Lakeland between the programs and people there, it felt like it would be a good home for me.
Something people may not know about you: I grew up helping on my grandparents’ farm

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Historical Player Information

  • 26

    2022Freshman

    Infielder
    5'2"
    26
  • 26

    2023Sophomore

    Pitcher/Infielder
    5'2"
    26
  • 20

    2024Junior

    Pitcher/Infielder
    5'2"
    20
  • 20

    2025Senior

    Pitcher/Infielder
    5'2"
    20