Bio

Whitney Tornow was an award-winning softball player who earned a pair of All-America awards and three All-Region citations while also playing tennis at UW-Oshkosh from 2006-10.

On the softball diamond, Tornow received National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III All-America First Team honors in 2010 and All-America Second Team accolades in 2009 as an outfielder.

Tornow collected All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference First Team recognition in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was named the league’s Position Player of the Year in 2009. She also was selected to the Division III All-Region First Team in both 2009 and 2010 and the All-Region Second Team in 2008.

Tornow owns WIAC season records with a .500 batting average and 40 walks during the 2010 season while maintaining the league lead for more than a decade with 89 career walks. The Neenah High School alumnus also paced the WIAC in home runs (12) in 2009 as well as batting average (.500), doubles (19) and total bases (107) in 2010.

A three-time WIAC Softball Player of the Week honoree, Tornow currently ranks among the top eight in league history in several career offensive categories, including slugging percentage (second), doubles (fifth), runs batted in (sixth), batting average (eighth) and home runs (eighth).

Tornow, who was selected to the WIAC All-Centennial Softball Team in 2012, started all 152 games that she played in as a Titan and hit .420 (185-440) during her career with 31 home runs, 48 doubles, eight triples, 146 runs batted in and 122 runs scored.

Tornow is one of just three UW-Oshkosh players to register five hits in a game. She accomplished the feat by recording three doubles, a home run and a single during the Titans’ 31-1 victory over UW-Superior on April 16, 2008.

Tornow helped UW-Oshkosh compile a 110-60 record from 2007-10 as the Titans won WIAC regular season and tournament titles in 2007 and 2008, respectively, on the way to playing in the Division III postseason both seasons.

On the tennis court, Tornow earned records of 33-17 in singles play and 29-31 in doubles action. She was a member of the UW-Oshkosh tennis program in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010.

Tornow, a 2013 UW-Oshkosh graduate, was named the head softball coach at Lakeland Union High School in Minocqua this past July. She was an assistant softball coach at UW-Oshkosh from 2011-13 and at UW-Green Bay in 2015.

Tornow lives in Sayner and is a personal trainer at Lakeland Fitness & Golf in Minocqua.