Taylor Dockins, CSUF star freshman pitcher on the softball team is on the list to get a liver transplant. in Fullerton on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.
Norco softball pitcher Taylor Dockins looks out from the dugout during softball game against Centennial in a Big VIII League game in Norco on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Dockins set the CIF-Southern Section record for career wins as Norco defeated Centennial, 5-1. Norco High School softball player Taylor Dockins, left, and two-time Olympian Jennie Finch after Dockins won the Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at Xpresso Urban Cafe in Corona.
Norco pitcher Taylor Dockins is the HSGameTime Softball Player of the Year. Dockins, who returned to the field after being diagnosed with liver cancer, went 33-1 as a senior and also set the CIF-Southern Section record with 108 career wins. Taylor Dockins, the softball star who recently graduated from Norco, does an interview on the red carpet before the ESPYS in Los Angeles.
Cal State Fullerton pitcher Taylor Dockins during an NCAA softball game against Hawaii on Saturday, April 20, 2019 in Fullerton, Calif. Dockins underwent surgery to remove the five-inch tumor, but tests showed a vascular invasion, meaning the cancer had broken into the vessels. She had to be tested every two months to make sure the cancer had not spread further. Dockins twice returned to the hospital because of infections. And in late October that year, three organs, including her heart, began to fail after a drain to relieve a biliary leak was removed.
Norco’s softball program has never retired a jersey number, but no player has worn No. 16 since Dockins graduated in 2017.. She made 40 appearances for the Cal State Fullerton softball team between the 2018 and 2019 seasons, posting a 13-9 record. She was unable to play for the Titans during her junior and senior seasons because of chemotherapy treatments and additional surgeries.