Lauren Erickson is an outfielder on the Toledo softball team in her final season with the Rockets. She has a 3.979 grade point average and will receive a bachelor's degree in civil engineering this June, becoming the fourth engineer in her family. She is a two-time Academic All-MAC and NFC Scholar-Athlete, and a CSC Academic All-District honoree.
On pursuing an engineering degree
Both of my parents and my brother, Jeremy, were mechanical engineering majors at Purdue. My brother just graduated and is now a mechanical engineer. I started as an environmental engineering major and then within the first couple of days, I realized that was not what I wanted to do.