With the 2025 school softball season simply days away, listed here are 10 gamers Michella Chester desires you to maintain your eye on this 12 months.
1. NiJaree Canady, Texas Tech (Beforehand at Stanford)
One of many greatest stars in school softball, Canady, took her abilities to Lubbock, Texas. Final season, she led the nation with a 0.73 ERA, 337 strikeouts and led Stanford to the Girls’s Faculty World Collection semifinals
2. Reese Atwood, Texas
2024 Softball America Participant of the 12 months Atwood will probably be again in motion after setting a brand new single-season house run report for the Longhorns with 23. Atwood additionally led the NCAA with 90 RBI.
3. Karlyn Pickens, Tennessee
2024 SEC Pitcher of the 12 months Pickens completed with a 22-7 report and a 1.12 ERA final season. She additionally had with 225 strikeouts.
4. Jocelyn Erickson, Florida
With a conference-high 86 RBI, Jocelyn Erickson earned SEC Participant of the 12 months honors and helped lead the Gators to a convention championship. Erickson totaled 15 house runs with a .382 batting common for the season.
5. Jordy Bahl, Nebraska
Bahl is about to make her return after lacking virtually all of final season with an harm. Earlier than that, Bahl was named the Most Excellent Participant of the 2023 Girls’s Faculty World Collection with Oklahoma.
6. Jaysoni Beachum, Florida State
Beachum will look to construct off of a monster freshman season with the Seminoles after hitting over .400 with 16 house runs and 66 RBI.
7. Emiley Kennedy, Texas A&M
Kennedy will probably be again within the circle for the Aggies after getting 200 strikeouts final season in 202.2 innings pitched. Kennedy went 24-11 with a 1.93 ERA.
8. Ella Parker, Oklahoma
Coming off of a freshman season with a team-high .415 batting common, Ella Parker will undoubtedly be a standout for the Sooners this 12 months. She moreover tallied 13 house runs and 60 RBI.
9. Sydney Berzon, LSU
Berzon went 20-9 with 204 innings pitched whereas recording a 1.78 ERA final season.
10. Jenna Golembiewski, Miami (Ohio)
And final however not least, Jenna Golembiewski returns after main the MAC with 78 RBI, along with a .394 batting common and 28 house runs in her junior season.
