2024 Softball Roster
Lotus, Easton

Jersey Number 12
Easton Lotus
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Marist
- Hometown:
- New Lenox, Ill.
Bio
All-ACC Third Team Selection (2023)
As a senior (2025)
As a junior (2024)
As a sophomore (2023):
As a freshman (2022):Â Â
High School/Travel:Â
Personal:
As a senior (2025)
- Team leader in hits (65) and runs scored (38)
- Posted a .357 batting average and 16 multi-hit games (most on team)
- Recorded an impressive 15-game hitting streak, one shy of the program record
- Started all 51 games at second base, batting leadoff
- Stole 18 bases (tied team-high) with a .948 fielding %
- Tallied a career-high 4 hits against Central Michigan (4/1), going 4-for-4 on the day
- Went 3-for-4 with a career-high tying 3 RBIs against Boston College (4/12)
- 2025 CSC Academic All-District
- Named to All-ACC Academic Team
- Named NFCA Scholar Athlete
As a junior (2024)
- Played in four games before being sidelined by a season-ending injury
- Posted a .308 batting average (4-for-13) with two runs, an RBI and was 2-for-2 in stolen bases in the Cardinals' opening weekend before suffering injury.
- Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll
As a sophomore (2023):
- Named to the All-ACC third team
- Carried a .303 batting average with 54 hits, four doubles and four triples
- Scored 25 runs and drove in 26
- Registered seven stolen bases
- Finished the season on a 13-game hitting streak and 16-game reached base streak
- Tallied 14 multi-hit and four multi-RBI games
- Hit a three-run triple and tied a school record with four runs in the 12-4 win over Miami(Ohio) (4/14).
- Hit a walk-off single helped the Cards beat Pitt 5-4 and clinch the series
- Went 2-for-4 with a double and a triple and two runs in the 9-1 win over Oakland (4/16).
- Tallied a career-high three RBIs in the 13-9 win at No. 15/15 Duke (3/11)
- Hit a walk-off double to lift the Cardinals to a 2-1 win over Wisconsin (2/19)
- Went 2-for-2 with a triple, an RBI and a run in the 10-0 win over Southern (2/11)
- Named to the CSC Academic All-District team
- Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and ACC Academic Honor Roll
- Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete
As a freshman (2022):Â Â
- Started 23 games at second base and posted a .276 batting average with 21 hits, three doubles, 14 runs, two RBIs and five stolen bases
- Was on a five-game hitting streak and six game reached-base streak when her season ended due to injury in the March 13 game against Indiana
- Went 3-for-3 with a run and an RBI in the 10-0 win against FAMU (2/18)
- Had two hits and delivered her first collegiate RBI in the 8-5 loss to Ohio State (2/13)
- Went 3-for-4 with her first career double and a run in the 9-5 win over Indiana (2/11)
- Scored two runs in the 14-0 win against Bethune-Cookman (2/11)
- Scored her first collegiate run in the 10-7 win against FAU (2/10)
- Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll
- NFCA Scholar Athlete
High School/Travel:Â
- Four-year starter for Marist High School and keyed the RedHawks to the 2021 Illinois High School Association state title
- Helped Marist to a fourth-place finish in the 2019 state championship as well as the Super Sectional and Sectional titles
- Her team won back-to-back Regional and East Suburban Conference Championships in 2018 and 2019
- In 2019, she was a MaxPreps Sophomore All-American after registering a .492 batting average with 64 hits and 51 runs
- Earned Illinois Coaches Association l All-State, East Suburban Catholic All-Conference and Chicago Tribune/Daily Southtown All-Area honors (2019)
- Stands among Marist's top 10 in career batting average, hits and stolen bases and owns the single season stolen base record with 43, achieved in both her freshman and sophomore seasons
- As a member of the Beverly Bandits Skeens, she helped her team to the 2019 16U PGF National Championship
- Also lettered in basketball
Personal:
- Nickname is “E”
- Birthday is December 12
- Daughter of Pete and Nikki Lotus
- Has four siblings: Emma, Mickey, Demi, and Peter
- Her father played baseball and her mother played softball at UIC
- Her younger sister, Emma, plays softball at Central Michigan
- Majoring in exercise science
- Post college ambition is to be a nurse
Highlights: Louisville SB vs. No. 18 Florida State (Gm. 1)
Thursday, July 11
Highlights: Louisville SB at Boston College
Sunday, May 05
SB: Daisy Hess and Sam Booe Postgame vs. #22/21 Clemson
Saturday, April 27
Highlights: Louisville SB vs. No. 22/21 Clemson (Gm. 2)
Saturday, April 27