Sammy Bost: The Anti Big-Woman on Campus

In the pantheon of the most accomplished student-athletes to ever compete for Lebanon Valley College, you'd be hard pressed to find another performer with a resume as impressive as Sammy Bost's. There's the great Lou Sorrentino; a legendary three-sport athlete who signed professional contracts with the Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Orioles. Mike Rhoades, the 1994-95 national player of the year, led the men's basketball program to its first national championship. Now he's the head coach at VCU. Andy Panko, a two-time consensus national player of the year and LVC's all-time leading scorer, continues his nearly 20-year career playing basketball professionally around the world. Cynthia Adams etched her name in history by winning the 800m and becoming LVC's most recent national champion in the spring of 2015. That's the company with which Bost keeps, as a quick glance at her credentials will corroborate.

She holds the NCAA record for consecutive stolen bases. She represented the MAC Commonwealth as the conference's NCAA Woman of the Year nominee in 2017. She is a three-time NFCA All-American, a three-time CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-American, and the only softball player in program history to have her jersey retired. She led the Flying Dutchmen to three conference titles and NCAA Tournament appearances as a member of LVC's softball and women's tennis teams. She was an NFCA National Player of the Year Top-10 Finalist in 2016. She's been regional player of the year, she was named conference player and rookie of the year in the same season, and she's earned first-team all-conference recognition playing three different sports. All-Region? Check. CoSIDA Academic All-District? Six times. Just about any athletic or academic award your mind can muster up, Bost has won or been a finalist for.

And yet, absent is the stereotypical arrogance, the cockiness, the big head that far too often comes with the territory of being the most decorated student-athlete in school history. Instead, the Eldersburg, Md. native shies away from praise and self-satisfaction. She'd rather her hard work serve as a source of inspiration for those players who come next.

Read the full story on Bost and watch her video interview on our LVC Athletics website.