Lisa (Harfield) Borowitz has the distinction of being the first student-athlete from Concordia University, St. Paul to be inducted into the NSIC Hall of Fame. She was a three-sport All-NSIC performer, competing in soccer in the fall, basketball in the winter and softball in the spring. She was the scoring & rebounding leader during her women’s basketball team’s first NCAA Tournament appearance, the first for any sport at CU. She also was a top performer on the NSIC Tournament Champion softball team that brought home the first NSIC title to CU in 2001, in just the second year in the league.
In the spring of 2000 Harfield led the NSIC in home runs and followed that up the following winter by leading NSIC women’s basketball in scoring as she averaged 18.8 points over 18 NSIC contests.
Over her four year basketball career Harfield scored 1,469 points and grabbed 742 rebounds to graduate as CU’s all-time scoring a rebounding leader. She was a four-time All-NSIC performer, including three stints on the first team.
Harfield was the Golden Bears’ starting shortstop for the 2000, 2001 and 2003 seasons. She was a three time All-NSIC performer as she ended her career second at CU in career home runs and RBI, was third in batting average and left with the career steal record.
In the fall of 2000 and 2001 Harfield played goalkeeper and forward for the CU soccer team. She was an All-NSIC First Team performer in 2000 and holds the CU record for saves per game with 10.76. She set the single season record in saves (176), saves per game (12.57) and is second in a single season in wins (8) and save percentage (.867). She also scored four goals on six shots in 2001 and helped the team go from a 2-10-2 overall season in 2000 to an 8-win improvement at 10-9-1 in 2001.
Harfield is still involved in college athletics as she has served as an assistant softball coach at Hamline University in St. Paul for five seasons. She has also been an assistant softball coach at St. Paul Johnson High School, winning the St. Paul City Conference championship in her two years there in 2004-05, taking fourth at the MSHSL Class AAA tournament in 2005. She currently works as a disability representative at Sedgwick Claims Management Services in Eden Prairie, Minn. Lisa is married to Brent Borowitz and together they have two children, Austin and Carson.