UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State softball sophomore designated player Brooke Klosowicz secured Softball America postseason top 100 player laurels, landing the nation’s No. 86 overall ranking in the organization’s release on Monday afternoon.

In total, Klosowicz was one of 17 student-athletes representing the Big Ten Conference in Softball America’s postseason top 100 list, and was the only representative from the Penn State roster. Klosowicz joined a league-high five selections from UCLA, in addition to four student-athletes from Oregon, two apiece from Nebraska and Ohio State, as well as single selections from Indiana, Michigan and Washington. Klosowicz’s appointment to the postseason top 100 marks the second consecutive season with a Nittany Lion on the list, as the sophomore standout joined last year’s 51st-ranked player in pitcher Bridget Nemeth.

Hailing from Johnsburg, Illinois, the second-year Nittany Lion booked one of the strongest individual seasons the Penn State program has ever seen. Her. 422 batting average marked the fourth-best single-season mark in school history, adding a myriad of additional single-season records in the process. Klosowicz boasts the Nittany Lion single-season doubles record with 23 two-baggers, and added the most single-season runs batted in all-time with 53. Additionally, Klosowicz became just the third woman in Penn State history to record 50 runs scored in a single season, joining Cassidy Bell’s 55-run total in 2013 and Macy Jones’ 53-run campaign in 2016. In total, Klosowicz started in all 52 games for PSU this season and mustered 65 hits with 38 of those going for extra bases, including a team high-tying 13 home runs.

Over the course of her two seasons in Happy Valley, Klosowicz has appeared in 85 contests and has cultivated a career-long batting average of .380. Her 1.169 career OPS is the strongest mark among returning Penn State student-athletes, while her 25 collegiate doubles also rank first among returners. In the past month alone, Klosowicz became one of four Nittany Lion student-athletes to pick up All-Big Ten accolades, landing second team recognition to become the only PSU underclassman to accomplish that feat this year. Additionally, she secured Second Team NFCA All-North region honors in the postseason, also the only Nittany Lion underclassman to earn All-Region laurels.

Penn State completed its 60th anniversary season with an appearance in the quarterfinals of the 2025 Big Ten Conference Softball Tournament. PSU finished the year with 25 total victories and shattered multiple single-season program records including batting average, home runs, RBI, runs scored and total bases. The Blue & White also mustered the program’s 16th all-time victory in the Big Ten Tournament with a 6-2 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes in the first round of the 2025 event, securing its first Big Ten Tournament opening-round win since the 2023 campaign and third opening-round victory in the last four years under the direction of head coach Clarisa Crowell.