Daphne Pofek

Classroom

Daphne Pofek has excelled in the classroom during her time at CSUN. She carried a 3.34 cumulative GPA through the end of the Fall 2016 semester. She has made the CSUN Dean’s List twice (2013, 2014) and the Varsity N (CSUN’s top academic award for student-athletes) twice (2014, 2016). She is a two-time member of the Academic All-Big West Softball Team and is on course to make the team in 2017. She hopes to pursue a career in law enforcement when her softball career is over.

Character

Daphne Pofek truly embodies President Theodore Roosevelt’s motto of “speak softly but carry a big stick.” One of the Matadors’ quieter players, Pofek leads through her actions on the field and in the classroom. She is a determined competitor who has matured and developed into one of the league’s top pitchers. As a pitcher, she shoulders a large responsibility for her team and does so with poise and grace.

Community

Daphne Pofek has been an active member of the Los Angeles community throughout her Matador career. This past season, she served as a head coach for a team in the Natasha Watley Foundation in South Los Angeles. Pofek also has worked with elementary students by reading them to as part of a program with CSUN athletics and participated in the Big West coin drive and in clothing and toy drives during the holiday seasons.

Competition

Daphne Pofek is finishing up a solid CSUN career on the softball diamond. Entering her junior year, Pofek had seven victories for her career. Last season, she earned NFCA third-team All-West Region honors, giving CSUN an all-region pitcher in three straight seasons. Pofek finished the year with a 19-8 record and set new career highs with a 2.78 ERA, 102 strikeouts and a .237 opponent batting average in 173.2 innings of work. She was especially dominant against Big West opposition, posting a 12-3 record with a 1.87 ERA, 52 Ks and a .216 opponent batting average in 104.2 innings of work. Pofek was one of only two Big West pitchers to defeat every league opponent, and she and teammate Karlie Habitz combined to throw out nearly 50 percent of would-be base-stealers for the season.