Mark James Sorenson MNZM (born c. 1968) is a former New Zealand softball player and current New Zealand men's softball team coach. He captained the national side, the Black Sox from 1989 to 2001, and again in 2004, and led them to three successive ISF world championship wins, in 1996, 2000, and 2004. He retired in 2007.[1]

In the 1998 New Year Honours, Sorenson was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to softball and the community.[2] In 2010, he was inducted into the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame.

He was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame at the 2016 Halberg Awards.[3]

Mark Sorenson is the Central Region Manager for AWF (2016).

References

  1. ↑ "Mark Sorenson" at International Softball Congress website. Retrieved 25 April 2012
  2. ↑ "New Year honours list 1998". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 1997. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "Halberg Awards: All Blacks win supreme as Lydia Ko and Kane Williamson take top awards". The New Zealand Herald. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2016.


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