Makayla Surline Signs to Play Softball at L.C.C.

Despite missing most of her senior season to an arm injury, Makayla Surline still made a strong impression on the Lansing Community College softball coach and signed with the Stars to play next season.

Surline started playing softball when she was young, but it wasn’t until middle school that she realized it was the sport for her. “I started playing softball when I was around five years old,” Surline said, It was in eighth grade that I decided that I wanted to take it more seriously.”

It was in eighth grade that Surline started playing travel ball for the Krash team out of Lansing when her softball career took off.

It was also in eighth grade that Surline started looking at L.C.C. for her college of choice. “L.C.C. had always felt like the right decision for me as I wanted to stay close to home,” Surline said. It also helped the Krash was right in the backyard of L.C.C. when it came to recruiting Surline for the Stars softball program.

Surline will work toward her Associate’s degree at L.C.C. before she hopes to move on to another school to get her Master’s degree in the science of anesthesia.

After missing her freshman year due to the Covid pandemic and part of her senior season with the arm injury, Surline made the most of her two and a half years on the Panthers varsity team and capped it off by playing in the Lansing Area All-Star game along with teammate Bailey Bartrum.

A lot of Surline’s success is owed to her parents Tom and Lindsay Surline. “From a very young age, they taught me that you have to work for what you have and that has always pushed me to be better,” Surline said.

When asked what she wanted to let people know about her before she heads off to L.C.C. this fall she said, “You can do anything you want to when you work hard for it, despite what people tell you.”