Mark Sorenson (softball)

Mark James Sorenson is a former New Zealand softball player and the current coach of the New Zealand men's softball team. 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 and is considered one of the greatest softball players of all time. He attended Naenae College and was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 1998 New Year Honours for services to softball and the community. He was inducted into the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame in 2010 and the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame at the 2016 Halberg Awards.