LEGACY INDUCTEE
Shally Lundien - Missouri Southern State University
Softball Student-Athlete, 1994-95
Shally Lundien was an All-American for the Lions in the mid 90's after transferring to Southern from Crowder College. An All-Region and All-American selection at Crowder, Lundien was a member of the USA Softball Junior College team that competed in the Canada Cup in Vancouver in 1993.
At Missouri Southern, Lundien was crowned the MIAA Player of the Year and a First Team All-American in 1995. She was also honored as the Missouri Southern Female Athlete of the Year and named the MIAA’s Ken B. Jones Award winner – an award given to the male and female athletes of the year. That season, Lundien hit an impressive .430 while starting in all 53 games and helping the Lions to a 45-8 record and a trip to the NCAA Regionals. She led the team with 39 runs, 74 hits, 47 RBI, had seven triples, and ranked second with 18 doubles while striking out just three times on the season. She was a First Team All-Region and First Team All-MIAA selection in 1995 after receiving First Team All-MIAA honors in the 1994 season. Lundien was also named a Second Team Academic All-American that season.
Lundien was inducted into the Missouri Southern State University Hall of Fame in 2010. At that time, she still held the Missouri Southern career record for fielding percentage (.986) while she still holds the single-season record for putouts (576). She continues to rank second in the program’s top-five for putouts in a game (18), RBI in a single season (47), hits (74), doubles (18) and batting average in a season (.430). Her career batting average of .372 and her 1,070 career putouts both rank fifth in the MSSU softball records books.
Lundien has been a successful coach at both the high school and collegiate levels. She has coached at Carthage High School, as well as Joplin and Seneca High School and Frontenac High School. She also spent five years as the head coach at Pittsburg State University, where she owned a record of 120-120.
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