The NCAA record was tied by Alo on February 20, 2022, when she hit her 95th career home run.In [18] With her 96th career home run on March 11, 2022, at the Rainbow Wahine Classic in her home state of Hawaii, she broke Lauren Chamberlain’s previous record and established a new NCAA record.19]20] With two grand slams, 24 home runs, 11 doubles, and 61 RBIs at the end of the regular season, she had a batting average of.476. Her slugging percentage (1.212), on-base percentage (.646), and number of home runs (34), as well as her batting average (.512) and RBIs (85), were the highest in the country. She received three more awards for an incredible season: Big 12 Player of the Year, USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, and Softball America Player of the Year;[21]21][ 23]The 24th
Texas sophomore Reese Atwood has been named the Big 12 Conference, D1Softball, and NFCA’s Player of the Week, all three organizations announced Tuesday morning, following a historic, record-breaking three-game series at Texas Tech over the weekend.
Atwood led the Big 12 in batting average (.700), hits (7), hits per game (2.33), home runs (4), runs batted in (13), total bases (19), slugging percentage (1.900), and fielding percentage (1.000). Her contributions were crucial to the top-ranked Texas Longhorns’ first regular season conference championship since the 2010 campaign. Her 13 RBI over the course of the weekend more than doubled the next closest non-UT student-athlete, and her four home runs were twice as many as the next closest Big 12 player.
In Texas’ 23-0 victory over Texas Tech on Saturday, May 4, the Tuloso Midway product from Sandia, Texas, not only became the program’s new single-season home run leader, but he also set a career high with nine RBI. Atwood made history on Sunday, May 5, over twenty-four hours later, when she returned to Rocky Johnson Field in Lubbock and hit two home runs to make history as the first Longhorn softball student-athlete to hit 20 in a single season.
With a slash line of.433/.481/.917 coming into this week’s 2024 Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championship, Atwood has 144 total bases, 68 hits, 36 runs scored, 21 home runs, and 83 RBI in 157 official plate appearances. The Big 12 Conference is led by her in
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