« Softball 2011

Kristina Karpun

School
IPFW
Position
Catcher
Major
French
AVG
.264
R
7
H
14
FLD%
.990
RBI
11

Classroom

Karpun is an excellent leader in the classroom, where she maintains a 3.58 GPA in French. She is fluent in both French and English. In 2010 she was named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District second team. She was also named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America Scholar-Athlete team. She has been named to the Summit League All-Academic team after her freshman, sophomore, and junior seasons, and to the Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence after her sophomore, and junior years.

Character

Not only is Karpun a great athlete for our program, she is a well-rounded individual who succeeds in the community and in the classroom. Performing well in all aspects of her life is at the top of her list. She is a quiet person who leads more by example than by her voice but when she speaks other people listen and follow. She has been at all of the team’s volunteering events and also represents softball on the Student-Athlete Leadership Team. One of her greatest strengths is her honesty and willingness to accept responsibility. She is a big reason for our programs success on the field, in the community, and in the classroom. She was also very instrumental in helping the team recover from the death of a teammate 33 games into the season, helping push the team to a regular season runner-up finish and a third-place finish in the Summit League postseason tournament.

Community

Over the last three years Karpun has participated in the Domestic Violence Awareness River Walk, Salvation Army adopt a Christmas Family, Dons Dodge it for Turnstone and Run it, Walk it for Chris Brown, a former IPFW student who lost his life to cancer. She has also taken part in Chalk it up and River Walk for YWCA Domestic Violence Awareness, the Children’s Hospital Christmas party for kids with cancer, the Out of the Darkness Community Walk for Suicide Awareness and with the team she adopted a young girl through Friends of Jaclyn Foundation. Between her freshman and sophomore year she was a math and French tutor.

Competition

Karpun was instrumental in the team’s turnaround from a 14-24 record in 2009 to a 29-19 record in 2010, and she was named first-team All-Summit League for her efforts. She was behind the plate for each of the team’s 48 games, catching a pitching staff that included the Summit League Pitcher of the Year, and offensively she set single-season school records in slugging percentage (.812), home runs (15), RBI (43), total bases (112) and walks (28). Her batting average (.399) and on-base percentage (.497) also ranked third all-time in school history. Karpun committed just five errors during the season for a fielding percentage of .986.