Danielle Elaine Lawrie (born April 11, 1987)[1] is a Canadian, former collegiate All-American, medal-winning Olympian, professional All-Star softball pitcher and current sports commentator.

[1] She played summer ball for the White Rock Renegades for five years under coach Rick Sullivan, and was named the MVP of the 2005 Canadian National Team.

[8] In another 11-inning battle, she and teammate Caitlin Noble combined with Katie Burkhart of the Arizona State Sun Devils to strike out 42 batters.

[11] Finally, on May 12, Lawrie lost another extra inning game to the California Golden Bears and combined with Kristina Thorson for another 32 strikeouts at 14 and 18 respectively.

In a win over the South Florida Bulls on February 18, Lawrie struck out a school and career high 20 batters in 7 innings to tie her for second highest in an NCAA regulation game.

[16] The Huskies made it to the Women's College World Series and Lawrie responded by tossing a no-hitter over the DePaul Blue Demons on May 31.

Beginning on February 7, 2009 with a win over Loyola Marymount Lions, Lawrie achieved a 64.1 consecutive scoreless innings streak.

[28] After another week, Lawrie combined with Morgan Melloh of the Fresno State Bulldogs for 31 strikeouts in an 11-inning win for the Huskies on March 14.

1 seeded Florida Gators and in the finale, struck out 8 and drove in the game-winning run to earn MVP and All-Tournament honors.

She led the team in home runs, RBIs and slugging percentage with career highs, which she also achieved in batting average, hits and walks.

[40] For one of her no-hitters, she would achieve a career feat of 14 consecutive perfect innings pitched that began in a win over the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine on March 7 when she retired the final batter by strikeout.

[41] On May 15, in a run-rule win over the Arizona State Sun Devils, Lawrie posted career highs in single game hits (3) and RBIs (5).

[46] Lawrie did not play for the Huskies in their 2008 season because she was representing the Canadian National Team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

Lawrie was one of 15 players selected to represent Canada in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, where she made three appearances and pitched 12 innings.

In her first Olympic appearance, she earned a victory in Canada's 9–2 win over the Netherlands, striking out four in four innings of work, while allowing just one run on two hits.

She also hurled a complete game against Venezuela in which she struck out nine batters, allowing just two runs on four hits, but Canada was unable to support her in a 2–0 loss.

In October 2007 at the China Cup, held in Beijing, the Canadians won all three of the games in which Lawrie started, and received the Silver Medal.

She had her best performance of the China Cup against Australia, which had already defeated the Canadians twice in the tournament, pitching seven shutout innings while giving up just two hits and striking out three in leading the team to a 4–0 win.

For those wins, Lawrie threw 52.0 and gave up 24 hits, 10 earned runs, 18 walks and collected 55 strikeouts for a 1.34 ERA and 0.81 WHIP.