Lauren Pappert

Photo by: Sideline Photos, LLC

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Position:
Catcher/Utility
Height:
5-2
Class:
Junior
High School:
Piper
Hometown:
Kansas City, Kan.

At Princeton
2025
Played a career-high 36 games, primarily behind the plate while also seeing time at DP and as a pinch hitter ... also set career highs in starts (34), at-bats (69), hits (20), doubles (two) and RBI (nine) ... hit her first career home run at Penn (Apr. 25) ... had five multi-hit games, going 3 for 3 against Yale (Mar. 29) and Penn (Apr. 27) ... drove in three runs against George Mason (Feb. 15) and two against Yale (Mar. 29).

2024
Played in 21 games and made 14 starts, all at catcher ... had a hit in her season debut at College of Charleston (Feb. 24) and at UC San Diego (Mar. 13) ... drove in runs against South Carolina State (Feb. 25), Dartmouth (Apr. 13) and Monmouth (Apr. 17).

2023
Played in 32 games and made 15 starts, primarily playing at catcher and as a pinch hitter ... had hits in 11 games with two-hit games against Yale (Mar. 18) and at Brown (Mar. 26) ... had two-RBI games in back-to-back contests against Columbia (Apr. 9) and at Cornell (Apr. 15).

2021
Played in two games and started the second game against Drexel at catcher on May 4 ... doubled and drove in two runs in the Drexel nightcap.

Before Princeton: Second-team all-conference pick as an infielder in 2018, first-team all-conference as a catcher in 2019, and second-team all-state as a catcher in 2019 ... Kansas Scholar in 2020 and a four-year scholar honoree at Piper ... won first place in a Kansas Scholastic Press Association photo contest and second place in a KSPA cutline writing contest.

Personal: Daughter of Keith Pappert and Dannetta Pappert ... has older siblings Hannah (Park University, softball) and Richard (Kansas State) ... majoring in operations research and financial engineering.