NOTE: Throughout the rest of the spring, student-athletes from SOU's softball and track and field teams whose seasons ended prematurely will be profiled. While none of them will be charged a season of competition this spring and will have the option of returning for 2021, some may choose to end their careers upon graduating.

Following the 2018 season, the Southern Oregon softball team was left with a glaring void in its lineup previously occupied by the NAIA Player of the Year, catcher Harlee Donovan. Little time passed after the signing of College of San Mateo transfer Allie Stines, however, until it became apparent that the Raiders touted arguably the nation's top backstop – again.

In 2019, her first season at SOU, Stines successfully executed one of just three first-team NAIA All-America campaigns in team history, placing her in the company Donovan and battery-mate Gabby Sandoval.  She was also voted the Cascade Conference's Newcomer of the Year and produced a .409 batting average, 69 runs scored, 54 RBIs and a conference record 25 doubles.

Despite her distinction as the rare left-handed catcher, Stines proved as formidable with the glove behind the plate as she was with a bat beside it. While staking her claim to a 2019 CCC Gold Glove award, she cut down a school-record 17 of 35 stolen-base attempts. In the 2019 and '20 seasons combined, she threw out 21 of 47 aspiring base-stealers, and during that same period the Raiders stole 151 bases on 177 tries.

Stines topped the 2020 NAIA leaderboard with 14 doubles through 26 games, putting her well on pace to break her own CCC record. She also ranked fifth nationally in hits (39) and sixth in RBIs (26). In SOU's final series at Providence (Mont.), she stroked four doubles threw the first three games and capped the four-game set with her first home run of the season and the sixth of her SOU career.

Stines' total of 32 extra-base hits in 2019 was the second-highest in Raider single-season history, ranking only behind teammate (and fellow San Mateo C.C. transfer) Lauren Quirke's 33. With 39 doubles through two seasons, she's only four behind the SOU record Katie Moy established from 2009-12. She hit seven of those in one series, and four in a single game, last year against British Columbia, resulting in NAIA Player of the Week recognition.

When the 2020 season ended, Stines was nurturing an eye-popping .481 batting average. Her career average stands at .430 – the second-best on SOU's career leaderboard behind Quirke's .456 mark – and her on-base percentage at .508.

She's hit safely in 68 of 86 games as a Raider, including 15 three- or four-hit performances, and strung together an on-base streak of 34 games. Over 336 plate appearances, she's drawn 44 walks and totaled just five strikeouts – or one per every 67 plate appearances.

A health and P.E. major, Stines was named to the Academic All-CCC team this spring.