2023 Softball Roster
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Jersey Number 42
Julia Cottrill
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Andover Central
- Hometown:
- Wichita, Kan.
Bio
Season & Career Highs
SEASON
- Hits: 3 vs. Long Beach State (2/29/24)
- Runs: 3 vs Lehigh (2/9/24)
- HRs: 2 vs. Long Beach State (2/29/24)
- RBI: 5, 2x, last at North Texas (4/17/24)
- Walks: 3 vs. No. 22 South Carolina (3/9/24)
- SB: 1 vs. Southeastern Louisiana (2/22/24)
CAREER
- Hits: 4 vs. Tarleton (2/9/23)
- Runs: 3, 2x, vs Lehigh (2/9/24)
- HRs: 2, 4x, last vs. Long Beach State (2/29/24)
- RBI: 6 vs. Missouri (4/30/23)
- Walks: 3 vs. No. 22 South Carolina (3/9/24)
- SB: 1, 4x vs. Southeastern Louisiana (2/22/24)
ACCOLADES
- 1x D1 Softball National Player of the Week (5/2/23)
- 1x NFCA National Player of the Week (5/2/23)
- 2023 NFCA Third Team All-American
- 2023 NFCA All-South Region First Team
- 2023 All-SEC First Team
- 2021 All-SEC Newcomer Team
- 2021 SEC Academic Honor Roll
- 2021 NFCA All-Southeast Region Third Team
- 2020 SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll
- 2019 USA International Cup Bronze Medalist
- 2019 U-19 WBSC World Cup Gold Medalist
- 2019 U-19 USA Women’s National Team Selection
One of three Aggies on the roster to have played over 225 career games ... Matched her season-high five RBI hitting 2-for-2 with a double and home run in the 11-1 run-rule win at North Texas on April 17 ... Was 1-for-4 with three RBI and scoring a run in the victory over No. 13 Alabama on April 14 ... Drove in two runs in each of the bookend games of the series sweep of No. 25 Auburn, while adding a home run in the series opener ... Was walked six times, including three in game one of the SEC opening series sweep of No. 22 South Carolina ... Had a five RBI game, including her fourth career multi-home run game against Long Beach State on Feb. 29 ... Smashed her third home run of the season against No. 14 Oregon in the sixth inning to give Texas A&M an insurance run in a 2-0 victory ... Started at catcher all four games of opening weekend hitting 4-for-10, including one home run, five RBI and three runs.
2023 (JUNIOR)
Earned NFCA Third Team All-America and NFCA All-South Region First Team honors, as well as All-SEC First Team recognition ... Finished the SEC regular season ranked in the top 10 in numerous offensive categories, including No. 3 in RBI (22), No. 4 in doubles (6), No. 5 in total bases (49), No. 6 in hits (25), No. 7 in home runs (6) and No. 8 in slugging percentage (.636) ... Led the Aggies in home runs (10), doubles (12), RBI (43) and slugging percentage (.617) ... Opening day starter behind the plate and drove in five runs with four hits, including her first career triple ... Went 1-for-3 with a single and a run in the 2-1 win over No. 15 Arizona ... Was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run against No. 7 Arkansas on March 12 ... Was 1-for-2 with a two-run home run and three total RBI in the win against LA Tech on March 22 ... Was 1-for-3 with a run in the upset win over No. 3 Tennessee on April 1 ... Hit .300 going 3-for-10, including a home run and four RBI and scoring twice in the series sweep of Mississippi State ... Was 1-for-3 with a 2-RBI single in the 4-2 win over No. 25 Louisiana on April 12 ... Smashed her second career grand slam against Texas State, while going 2-for-4 on the night ... Blasted four home runs and 10 RBI in the series win over Missouri. Was named the D1 Softball and NFCA National Player of the Week for her efforts.
2022 (JUNIOR AT OKLAHOMA STATE)
Started 46 games in 2022 … Finished with a .306 batting average in 124 plate appearances … Drove in 31 runs and scored 29 runs for the season ... Had a .997 fielding percentage with 318 putouts, while throwing out five runners and allowing only three passed balls ... Was named the Big 12 player of the week on April 26 after going 5-for-10 with two home runs in a series sweep of Texas.
2021 (SOPHOMORE AT FLORIDA)
Earned NFCA All-Southeast Region third team and All-SEC Newcomer team selections … Named SEC Co-Newcomer of the Week after driving in seven total runs via three doubles and her first collegiate home run in a .500 (7-for-14) showing over a four-game stretch that included a single game with then-No. 22 UCF and three-game series sweep over then-No. 13 LSU … Hit a two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh inning against Texas A&M to clinch the SEC Regular Season Championship for the Gators … Tallied 10 multi-hit games and eight multi RBI games on the year and pieced together an eight-game hitting streak from April 18 - May 1.
2020 (FRESHMAN AT FLORIDA)
Started in 25 games for the Gators and registered a .323 average at the plate with 11 RBI, 10 runs scored, eight doubles and 12 walks … Scored the game-tying run in the bottom of the 2nd inning of the Gators 3-1 win over FGCU and a career-high five assists – which included throwing out a pair of Eagles base runners … Produced a career-high three hits in the Gators 2-1, 11 inning win over Auburn in game two of the series and threw out her third runner in a week’s span in game one against the Tigers ... Was honored as SEC Freshman of the Week for her work against Auburn … Finished the shortened 2020 season tied for eighth in the nation and third in the SEC amongst freshmen with eight doubles … Drove in a career-high three RBI in the Gators win over SE Louisiana on February 16 … Hit a pair of doubles in a win over Nebraska on February 23.
PREVIOUS ATHLETIC EXPERIENCE
Capped her club ball career off with a gold medal at the 2019 WBSC World Cup as a member of the USA Junior Women’s National team… Garnered PGF All-America Southwest region recognition and represented Team East in the 2019 PGF All-American game… Led her club team – Georgia Impact (Lewis 18U) – to the PGF National Championship title in 2018 and earned Oklahoma Fastpitch Coaches Association All-State honors… Attended Stillwater HS where she was coached by Carrie Linsenmeyer ... Started her high school career at Andover Central in Wichita before moving to Stillwater ... Named the Central Oklahoma Athletic Conference 6A Offensive Player of the Year and earned The Oklahoman’s Big All-City second-team honors – the second of her career – in 2017… Selected to the 2016 Central Oklahoma Athletic Conference 6A First Team and The Oklahoman’s Big All-City Second Team in her freshman year ... Was also a three-year basketball letterwinner.
PERSONAL
Julia Cottrill was born May 24, 2001 in Wichita, Kansas ... She is the daughter of Jeff and Casey Cottrill ... Grandfather, Grier Jones, won an NCAA individual golf championship for Oklahoma State in 1968, was a two-time Big Eight medalist and went on to a long career on the PGA Tour and then into college coaching ... Majoring in agricultural education and communications.
LSU Postgame: Michael Earley, Jace Laviolette, Clayton Freshcorn
Friday, May 23
Highlights: A&M 3, LSU 4
Friday, May 23
Auburn Postgame: Michael Earley, Justin Lamkin, Kaeden Kent
Thursday, May 22
Highlights: Texas A&M 3, Auburn 2
Thursday, May 22
