Hall of Fame
Second baseman Jessica (Feerrar) Boyer was a four-year starter for the Lycoming softball team that not only turned into an Academic All-American, but also helped the softball program earn three trips to the postseason and one trip to the Freedom Conference championship game in her career. She broke through as a freshman, hitting .304 with a school-record nine doubles, a mark that stood for 10 seasons. As a junior, she helped the Warriors qualify for the Freedom Conference playoffs for the first time since the MAC reorganized into two separate championships for the Freedom and Commonwealth conferences. As a senior, the Lock Haven, Pa., native left her true mark, though, hitting a career-best .307 with 14 runs, five doubles, four triples and her seventh career homer, tying Jen Shuler for the school record for home runs, a mark that stood for 12 years. She was named to the First Team All-Freedom Conference and then went on to earn some even more prestigious honors, becoming the sixth woman in the school's history to earn First Team CoSIDA Academic All-District honors and then joining Jeanine Evans as the only Academic All-Americans in the softball program's history, earning a slot on the second team. Boyer is still second in school history with 24 doubles and seven home runs, sixth in school history with five triples and ninth with 51 RBI. She is one of only four players in school history to homer in all four years of her career. A three-time member of the MAC Academic Honor Roll, Boyer also earned Lycoming's Edward J. Gray Prize for the highest grade-point average in the senior class. After graduating Lycoming, Boyer coached middle school girls' soccer for three years and high school softball for five years at Manheim Township before moving to the State College area, where she currently plays in a slowpitch softball league. She earned a Master's in Curriculum and Instruction in Science Education from Penn State Great Valley and is now a science teacher in the Delta Program, a democratic school of choice within the State College School District. She is married to Shaun Boyer and the couple have a daughter, Addison.
