Millersville

Voted the MVP of Millersville field hockey’s first PSAC Championship in 37 years and the anchor to the only NCAA Division II Championship team in the history of Millersville women’s athletics, Lauren Sotzin Boltz set a new standard for goalkeeper play at the ‘Ville.  

Sotzin Boltz earned All-PSAC recognition three times, landed All-America First Team honors in both 2013 and 2014, and was voted the 2013 Synapse Sports National Defensive Player of the Year. She led the nation in shutouts and goals-against average during her junior and senior seasons and graduated with Millersville records in career wins, shutouts and goals-against average.  When she finished her playing career, Sotzin Boltz ranked third in PSAC history and sixth in Division II history with 32 shutouts. Her 0.78 career goals-against average ranked fifth among all Division II players. 

As a sophomore in 2012, Sotzin Boltz recorded eight shutouts and 1.07 goals-against average, helping the Marauders, a team projected to finish fifth in the PSAC East, to a 14-7 record a surprise run to a PSAC runner-up finish.  

As a junior, Sotzin Boltz set school records with 19 wins and 11 shutouts. She played brilliantly in the postseason. On the Marauders’ way to their first PSAC Championship win since 1986, Sotzin Boltz made nine saves and shut out West Chester in an overtime win in the semifinals and then blanked top-seeded Shippensburg with 10 saves in the title game. One week later in Millersville’s first NCAA Division II Tournament game, she led her team to another 1-0 win over West Chester. 

The best was yet to come, however. During her epic senior season of 2014, Sotzin Boltz again set Millersville records for wins (20) and shutouts (13) and posted a 0.59 goals-against average—just shy of her 0.56 mark that set the program record the season prior. The Marauders reached the PSAC championship game for the second year in a row. The Marauders entered the NCAA Tournament as the region’s No. 2 seed, and Sotzin Boltz once again rose to the occasion. She earned 2-1 overtime victories against both Shippensburg and West Chester, advancing Millersville to the NCAA Division II Championship game for the first time. Against LIU Post, the nation’s No. 1-ranked offense, Sotzin Boltz faced 13 shots, saved four and posted a shutout for a 1-0 win and a national championship. Three of those saves came in the game’s final 10 minutes. She was rightly named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team for her three-game performance.  

Sotzin Boltz a four-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She married A.J. Boltz in 2016, and their daughter, Kensley, was born in May of 2021.