University of Arizona Athletics

2014: Appeared in 49 games, 47 as a pinch runner … Scored 19 runs and stole a base as Arizona’s first pinch runner off the bench … Received two plate appearances on the season … Pinch hit and stayed in to play left field against Oregon State (3/24) … Stole a base and scored a run vs. Southern Miss (2/9) in her only stolen base attempt of the season … Tucson Regional: Appeared in each game as a pinch runner and scored one run (Boston University, 5/16) … Lafayette Super Regional: Pinch ran in both games.

Prior to Arizona: A first-team NFCA All-American at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs … Named RMAC Freshman of the Year … Led conference with a .520 batting average … Top freshman, and third overall, in Division II in batting average … First-team all-conference, all-region … Fifteenth in batting average in NCAA (all divisions) … Had 64 hits in 124 at-bats, good for a .520 average with a .556 OBP … Stole 18 bases … Drove in 33 RBI in 36 games … Prior to Colorado Springs, earned three letters at Red Mountain High School under coach Rich Hamilton … Won the state championship her final three seasons in high school … Set a school record with a .547 batting average her senior year.

Personal: Born Payton Rose Kornfeind in August of 1994 to Ken Kornfeind and Cathy Kesler … Is undecided in her field of study … In her free time, enjoys exercising and hanging out with friends and family … Chose Arizona because of “the opportunity to play for a legendary coaching staff and to compete at the highest level of softball.”