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Donnalyn Cross Moran

  • Class
    2012
  • Induction
    2022
  • Sport(s)
    Softball
Donnalyn Cross Moran was one of the nation’s top Division III softball players during her four-year Red Dragon career and is among the best players in the history of the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC).
 
* The Binghamton, N.Y., native earned a bachelor’s degree in speech and hearing sciences from Cortland in 2012
 
* Four-year starting softball second baseman from 2008-11
 
* Career .404 batting average (including a .451 average in 2011, .416 in 2010 and .401 in 2009) with 17 homers, 43 triples, 36 doubles, 103 RBI, 197 runs, 70 steals, .672 slugging percentage in 196 games played, all as a starter; Cortland's career leader in hits (260), triples, steals and runs scored
 
* Graduated as the NCAA Division III career leader with 43 triples (currently ranks second)
 
* Set Cortland school single-season records of 73 hits and 59 runs scored in 2011 and 15 triples in 2010, and also ranks second and third on the single-season triples list with 13 in 2009 and 11 in 2011
 
* Three-time first team All-American (2009-11) and four-time All-Northeast Region, including first team three times (2009-11)

* Two-time ECAC Upstate NY Player of the Year (2010-11), 2009 First Team All-ECAC Upstate NY and 2008 ECAC Upstate NY Rookie of the Year

* SUNYAC Softball Player of the Decade (2010-19)
 
* Three-time SUNYAC Player of the Year (2010, 2011, co-Player in 2009), four-time first team All-SUNYAC and 2008 SUNYAC Rookie of the Year

* 2011 NCAA World Series All-Tournament Team and four-time NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team
 
* Three-time selection to the SUNYAC All-Tournament Team (2009, 2010, 2011)
 
* Team qualified for four NCAA Division III tournaments, advancing to the World Series three times (fourth place in 2011, tied for fifth in 2008, tied for seventh in 2009), and won three SUNYAC titles (2008, 2010, 2011)
 
* 2010-11 SUNY Cortland C-Club Senior Female Athlete of the Year
 
* Cortland Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) representative and selected for NCAA Leadership Conference in 2009
 
* Started her own dog training company in 2016 and has trained more than 10 police K9’s, including SUNY Cortland’s bomb detection dog, RED
 
* Also runs a dog daycare and boarding facility in Cortland, which opened in May 2020
 
* Has offered free training classes to a local dog rescue since 2016
 
* Has donated dogs to Operation Build Up, which assists struggling veterans and first responders, and has trained and donated dogs to the John Sonny Burke Police Academy and the City of Cortland Police Department


 
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