Awards/Honors:
- 2025 2nd team All-Conference
- 2024 1st team All-Conference
- 2024 Region IX third team
- 2023-24 Easton-NFCA Scholar All-American
- 2022 2nd team All-Conference
- 2022 Region IX third team
2025: Started in all 45 games... batted .341(44-129) with 10 doubles, one home run, and 24 RBIs... also had 13 runs and 15 walks... she hit her lone home run of the season against Saint Mary's (Feb. 16th)
2024: Started and played in 36 games throughout the season ... batted .380 (41-108) with nine doubles, one home run, and twenty-seven RBIs ... also had 41 runs and 9 walks ... hit her home run of the season against College of Saint Mary (Neb.) (Apr. 1)
2023: Started 39 games as the catcher...Set career-highs in runs (22), hits (40), doubles (10), RBI (28) and starts (39)... Had four starts behind the plate at the Mankato Dome Games while hitting .462 with six hits and seven RBIs...Recorded 14 hits including six doubles at The Spring Games in Florida...Smashed a pair of home runs in the series sweep over College of St. Mary (March 27)...Added three hits and three RBI in the Wartburg series including a home run.
2022: Started all 39 games at catcher for the Prairie Wolves... earned American Rivers Conference All-Conference 2nd Team honors... named to the NFCA All-Region 3rd team... was 2nd on the team with a .331 batting average and tied for the team lead with 26 RBI's... also ranked 2nd on the team in slugging percentage at .449 and hits with 39.
2021: Started 33 of the 37 games she played in for the Prairie Wolves... ranked 4th on the team in batting average hitting .282 on the season... recorded 36 hits including 5 doubles and a team high 7 home runs...led the team in runs batted in with 23... was named to the A-R-C All-Academic Team
High School: Four-time letter winner and starter ... helped the Vikings in the EMC championship ... was awarded All-Conference ... holds both the Pickoff and Homerun records at her high school ... also participated in bowling and track ... was on the Honor Roll ... was a part of the EMC Academic Team ... graduated from Waverly High School in 2019
Personal: Parents are Tammy and Greg Gerlach ... full name is Valerie Marie Gerlach ... current major is Biology ... her mother, Tammy, played basketball for the Prairie Wolves ... transferred from Concordia University Nebraska
