AMES, Iowa – Iowa State junior outfielder Tatum Johnson has been named the Massive 12 Participant of the Week, the league introduced Tuesday afternoon.
Johnson joins teammates Sydney Malott (participant – 4/15) and Lauren Schurman (pitcher – 4/15) as weekly award winners this season. With Malott having earned a Participant of the Week honor earlier this 12 months, it marks the primary time in program historical past that the Cyclones have had two completely different athletes named Massive 12 Participant of the Week in a single season.
Johnson is the eighth Cyclone to be honored as a Massive 12 Participant of the week, becoming a member of Malott (2025), fellow teammate Angelina Allen (2024), Sami Williams (3x), Logan Schaben (2018), Sarah Hawryluk (2013), Ashley Killeen (2006) and Rainey Eanes (2001).
Tatum had a monster week on the diamond for the Cyclones, as she helped lead her workforce to a 5-1 report throughout a six-game stretch in seven days. Beginning in middle area in all six video games, Johnson collected eight hits on the week, going 8-15 with a .533 batting common, and drawing a whopping 9 walks.
She was an on-base machine for the Cyclones, as Johnson discovered herself aboard 72 % of the time this previous week. Being on base resulted in her scoring a team-high eight runs and amassing a team-best 15 whole bases. As a part of her monster week, Johnson had a two-homer sport at UNI final Tuesday, marking her first multi-homer sport of her profession.
In whole, Johnson led the Cyclones in batting common, runs scored, homers (2), whole bases (15), slugging proportion (1.000), walks drawn, HBP (1), and on-base proportion.
Johnson can be again in motion later at the moment, as Iowa State is about to go to the japanese aspect of the state to tackle Iowa within the second sport of the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Collection. The Cyclones and Hawkeyes will meet at 5:30 pm, and the sport is about to be streamed reside on Massive Ten Plus.
