#37 Morgan Smith Season 2024
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2022)
Appeared in 28 games and made 10 starts in right field … Batted .303 and had a .576 slugging percentage in 33 at bats by tallying 10 hits, 11 runs, eight RBI, three doubles, and two home runs … Hit her first career home run in the third game against Mississippi St. on May 11 … Hit two home runs and four RBI in the final three games of the season … Registered 14 putouts in 14 chances.
FRESHMAN SEASON (2021)
Appeared in six games and received three starts in the circle … Used as a two-way player throughout the season … Finished the year with a 2-0 record and 3.11 ERA. Threw two complete games, one against North Dakota in five innings on Feb. 17 and one against Buffalo on Feb. 22 … Pitched seven innings of one-run baseball against the Bulls … Tossed 18 innings allowing only two walks and picking up three strikeouts … Her batting average against sat at .254, which was third best on the team … Grabbed the bat in 10 separate games with four starts … Picked up one hit with two RBI in nine plate appearances and scored five runs … Six chances to make a play at the pitcher position and converted each one with six assists … Drew five walks.
HIGH SCHOOL
Ranked the 28th best recruit by FloSoftball and 62nd by Extra Inning Softball … Part of the No. 2 recruiting class in 2020 … Played at Pinnacle High School … Was the 6A Desert Valley First Team All-Region selection and was an Arizona Gatorade Player of the Year nominee … Helped her team to back-to-back 6A Desert Valley Section Champions … Won state title as a sophomore and earned First Team Extra Inning Softball All-American status … Hit 21 home runs and had a .503 mark at the plate in the last two years of prep softball … Went 15-0 in the circle as a junior and totaled 187 strikeouts in 100.2 innings of work … Hit 13 home runs and went 12-3 in the circle as a sophomore and hit .473 with 11 home runs and 44 RBI as a freshman.
PERSONAL
Full name is Morgan Linn Smith, born March 16, 2002 in Washington, D.C … Is the daughter of Kevin and Paige Jackie Smith … Father Kevin played football at UCLA from 1987-92 and in the NFL for the LA Raiders and Green Bay Packers … Has a younger brother Grant (13) … plans to major in criminal psychology.