About Lesa: Is the daughter of Dave and Laura Turnquist...has one sister, Katie.
High School Highlights: 2010 2nd Team All-Conference, 2011 First Team All-conference, 2011 All-District, 2011 3rd Team All-State, 2011 All-Star game participant in softball. Lettered in softball (5 years), cross country (3 years), basketball (4 years), and track (1 year).
College Highlights:
2015: Lesa played in 34 games on the year, including 29 starts. She finished with 12 hits, including five doubles, and matched a career-best with 11 runs scored. Had a career-game against Wartburg on April 20 when she went 3-for-4 with three doubles and two RBI. Just days later, she went 2-for-2 with a pair of runs scored against Grinnell while playing in her final career home games. Following the year, she was named to the Academic All-IIAC Team for the third straight year.
2014: She started 34 games for the Beavers and finished the year with 17 hits and 11 runs scored in 87 at-bats. She finished third on the team with six doubles and was fifth in RBI (12). She went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles and a run scored in game two of a doubleheader late in the season at Simpson College. Following the year, she earned a spot on the Academic All-IIAC Team.
2013: Started 11 of the 14 games in which she played, posting one double and one RBI in 32 at-bats, while scoring three times. Defensively, she posted 10 putouts.
2012: Made 16 starts, primarily in left field for the Beavers. She went 1-for-2 with a walk in her collegiate debut in game one of a doubleheader at St. Catherine on April 2. She drove in her first career run in the finale of a doubleheader at Wartburg College on April 21.
