COLLEGE STATION, TX - April 06, 2024 - Emiley Kennedy #11 of the Texas A&M Aggies during the game between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Texas A&M Aggies at Davis Diamond in College Station, TX. Photo By Evan Pilat/Texas A&M Athletics

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COLLEGE STATION, TX - March 08, 2024 - Emiley Kennedy #11 of the Texas A&M Aggies during the game between the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Texas A&M Aggies at Davis Diamond in College Station, TX. Photo By Evan Pilat/Texas A&M Athletics

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FULLERTON, CA - March 02, 2024 - Emiley Kennedy #11 of the Texas A&M Aggies during the game between the Cal State Fullerton Titans and the Texas A&M Aggies at Anderson Family Field in Fullerton, CA. Photo By Evan Pilat

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COLLEGE STATION, TX - April 12, 2023 - Pitcher Emiley Kennedy #11 of the Texas A&M Aggies during the game between the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns and the Texas A&M Aggies at Davis Diamond in College Station, TX. Photo By Evan Pilat/Texas A&M Athletics

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COLLEGE STATION, TX - April 12, 2023 - Pitcher Emiley Kennedy #11 of the Texas A&M Aggies and Catcher Julia Cottrill #42 of the Texas A&M Aggies during the game between the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns and the Texas A&M Aggies at Davis Diamond in College Station, TX. Photo By Evan Pilat/Texas A&M Athletics

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Emiley Kennedy

Height:
6-2
Class:
Junior
High School:
Lake Creek
Hometown:
The Woodlands, Texas

Season & Career Highs

SEASON

IP: 8.0 at Auburn (3/14/25)
SO: 11 at Auburn (3/14/25)
Pitches: 153 vs. Florida (3/9/25)

CAREER

IP: 8.0, 2x, last at Auburn (3/14/25)
SO: 16 vs. UTSA (2/25/24)
Pitches: 153 vs. Florida (3/9/25)

Accolades

2025 NFCA Central All-Region First Team
2025 All-SEC First Team
SEC Pitcher of the Week (5/5/25)
2025 Preseason First Team All-American (Softball America, D1 Softball)
2025 USA Softball Top 53 Player of the Year Watch List
2025 Preseason Top 100 Player (Softball America, D1 Softball)
2024 D1 Softball First Team All-American
2024 NFCA Second Team All-American
2024 Softball America Second Team All-American
2024 NFCA South All-Region First Team
2024 All-SEC First Team
2024 USA Softball Player of the Year Top 26 Finalist
D1 Softball National Pitcher of the Week (3/12/24)
SEC Pitcher of the Week (2/26/24)
SEC Co-Pitcher of the Week (2/19/24)

*last updated 6/10/25

PROFESSIONAL: Emiley Kennedy was drafted by the Bandits as the seventh overall pick in the AUSL inaugural amateur draft on May 2, 2025. Kennedy's professional career bio page can be found at theausl.com.

CAREER: Made 153 appearances in 620.0 innings of work, including 52 complete games in 84 starts. She finished with a 70-33 record with a 2.59 ERA, including 18 shutouts and 13 saves ... Kennedy struck out 568 batters, finishing as only one of 10 Aggie pitchers to accomplish the feat ... She ranks No. 6 in strikeouts (568), No. 9 in wins (70) and No. 10 in innings pitched (620.0) on the Texas A&M all-time top 10 lists ... She set individual SEC season program records in innings pitched (100.1, 2024), strikeouts (86, 2024), wins (12, 2025), complete games (11, 2024), shutouts (4, 2025) and saves (3, 2024) ... Kennedy helped lead Texas A&M to its first ever No. 1 national ranking, No. 1 national overall seed and SEC Tournament title in 2025 ... She is the only Aggie in program history to have earned All-SEC First Team honors in consecutive seasons, while she is only the second to earn multiple first team recognitions in their career joining Tori Vidales (2016, 2018).

2025 (SENIOR): Led the Aggie pitching staff with a 21-6 record, while registering a 3.20 ERA in 157.2 innings of work ... She ranked 13th in the nation with six shutouts and 20th with 19 complete games ... Became the first Aggie to earn All-SEC First Team honors in consecutive seasons ... Finished SEC play ranked first with 12 wins and four shutouts, second with 10 complete games and held opposing hitters to a .189 batting average ... Against ranked opponents, she recorded four shutouts with a 13-4 ledger, 13 complete games and held top 25 opponents to a .216 batting average ... Went 2-0 at No. 2 Tennessee, including a one-hit shutout in the series opener striking out 10 batters and stranding eight Lady Vols ... Was 1-1 against No. 9 Arkansas, including her fifth shutout of the season and 14th complete game in the series finale ... Recorded her 500th career strikeout and registered a season-best 72% first-pitch strike percentage in the series opening win at No. 16 Georgia ... Went 2-0 on the weekend at No. 22 Auburn totaling 15.0 innings of work, while striking out 14 batters and keeping opposing hitters to a .137 batting average ... Won the SEC opener against No. 3 Florida going 7.0 innings with two strikeouts, while yielding only two runs on four hits.

2024 (JUNIOR): Earned NFCA All-America Second Team honors, becoming the first left-handed pitcher to earn All-American status in 41 years ... Registered the third-most shutouts (10) and complete games (24) in the nation, while ranking top 20 in the country in wins (24), strikeouts (200) and innings pitched (202.2) ... She became the first Aggie pitcher in 13 seasons to record double-digit shutouts and the first in 11 years to register at least 200 strikeouts in a season ... Was dominant in the nation's best conference earning All-SEC First Team honors after setting program records in innings pitched (100.1) and strikeouts (86) in league play ... Appeared in every game in seven-of-eight SEC series, while leading the league in innings pitched and ranking second with nine wins and third with three saves ... Pitched 15.2 innings of the team's 22.0 innings in the NCAA Super Regional round, including complete game in the series opening win ... Finished 2-0 pitching 12.0 scoreless innings and striking out eight batters in two complete game shutouts in the NCAA Regional round to send Texas A&M to its first super regional appearances since 2018 ... Earned her 20th win of the season in a relief appearance on April 23 to become the first Aggie pitcher with 20 wins in a season since Samantha Show (25) in 2016 ... Tossed two seven strikeout complete game wins in the bookend games of the series sweep at home against Ole Miss ... Went 2-1 totaling 14.0 innings and striking out 12 at No. 13 Alabama, while yielding three earned runs. and clinched the series in the finale pitching 3.0 scoreless innings to start before re-entering in the fifth to take the lead and striking out three batters to close it out ... Was named D1 Softball National Pitcher of Week after finishing the South Carolina weekend series 2-0 and a save, while grinding through 13.0 scoreless innings with 15 punch outs and limited batters to a .182 average at the dish. She joined Megan Gibson (April 13, 2008) as the only Aggie pitchers to receive a national weekly honor in program history ... Earned win No. 10 in Texas A&M’s 21st game of the season to become the fastest Aggie starter to double-digit wins since Samantha Show claimed win No. 10 in game 17 of the 2016 campaign ... Had a career high 16 strikeouts against UTSA, which started a streak of three consecutive starts of 10-plus strikeouts becoming the first Aggie starter to do so since Lexi Smith in 2017 ... Earned SEC Pitcher of the Week on Feb. 26 becoming the first Aggie pitcher to win a conference weekly honor in back-to-back weeks since Megan Gibson in 2008. She struck out 21 batters and yielded one unearned run in 18.0 innings in three appearances at the Texas A&M Invitational ... Was named SEC Co-Pitcher of the Week on Feb. 19 after recording two wins and two saves in four appearances, while totaling 16.2 innings and 23 strikeouts against 66 batters faced in four appearances.

2023 (SOPHOMORE): Began the majority of the season as a starter before finding some of her role coming out of the bullpen ... Led the Aggies in the postseason with a 1.94 ERA in 18.0 innings of work, while appearing in all five postseason games ... On the season, she led the Maroon & White in innings pitched (119.0), strikeouts (110) and was tied for the most appearances (35) ... Made her season debut in relief going 0.2 innings, while allowing two runs and two hits on Feb. 9 ... Sat down six batters in 2.2 IP and only gave up one hit against Northern Kentucky on Feb. 10 ... Made her first start of the season on Feb. 12 going five innings with seven strikeouts and giving up one walk ... Registered a career game against No. 15 Arizona with a one-run seven inning complete game effort, while striking out a career high eight batters ... Started against No. 1 UCLA going 4.0 IP and giving up 0 earned runs, while striking out three ... Earned her fourth win on the season pitching five innings and striking out three, while walking one and giving up one run against Houston on March 1 ... Recorded her first career no-hitter at No. 19 Baylor on March 4 going seven innings, while striking out six and walking only four batters ... Shut down Mississippi State totaling 8.1 innings and striking out eight earning two wins. Allowed only three, two walks and no runs in the two relief appearances ... Won her third consecutive game coming out of the bullpen going 4.0 innings and striking out five, while allowing no runs and two walks ... Provided crucial relief appearances in each of the victories over Ole Miss to help clinch the road series win ... Helped throw a combined no-hitter of Prairie View A&M on April 25, pitched 3.0 innings of relief ... Earned her 10th win on the season coming in relief going 5.2 innings and striking out three in the come from behind win over Missouri on April 30 ... Made her 30th appearance of the season going 5.0 innings, striking out two and allowing three runs to earn her 11th win in the regular season finale at Houston on May 3.

2022 (FRESHMAN): Appeared in 41 games in the circle as a true freshman, making 20 starts...Made her collegiate debut in the circle against TAMUCC (2/11) and first start against TAMUCC (2/12) in Aggie Classic, striking out 9 over the weekend ... Tossed her first complete game against SHSU (2/16) ... Tallied 10 strikeouts in 11.2 innings of work in Texas A&M Invitational...Struck out 6 against No. 11 Oklahoma St. (2/27) in Reveille Classic...Struck out 10 batters in 13 innings of work in the Judi Garman Classic tournament ... Limited No. 5 Florida to six hits in 8.1 innings of work...Struck out 2 batters in 4.1 innings of work against No. 17 Georiga ... Tallied eight strikeouts in eight innings of work in the circle over the course of the Abilene Christian series ... Appeared in each of the three games against No. 21 LSU, earning the start in the circle in game three. Against the Tigers, Emiley struck out eight batters while only giving up one earned run in 8.1 innings of work ... Had her first collegiate at-bat and earned the start in the circle against No. 14 Tennessee (4/17) ... Pitched a toal of 3.1 innings against No. 2 Alabama and limited the Crimson Tide to a single earned run...Struck out five against Lamar (4/27) ... Earned the start in the circle in one game against No. 25 Missouri ... Struck out a trio of batters in three innings of work against Houston (5/4)...Fanned six Razorbacks between 8.1 innings of work across the three-game series ... Tossed six complete games and recorded two saves ... Finished with a 13-11 record, pitching a team-high 140.2 innings with 110 strikeouts and 2.94 ERA.

HIGH SCHOOL: Was a three-year member of the Lake Creek High School softball team … Helped her team to the fifth round of playoffs as a senior … Named the 2021 Montgomery County Player of the Year … Four-year All-State selection … Earned High School All-American status … Ranked No. 21 in Extra Innings Top 100 of 2021 list…Played for the Scrapyard Dawgs for three years, finishing third at the 2018 Junior Olympics Cup in Canada … Played her final year of club ball for former Aggie, Mel Dumevich … Was recognized academically at Lake Creek High School, earning all-district honors for her success in the classroom.

PERSONAL: Is a business major in the Texas A&M Mays Business School … Minoring in sports management ... Her parents, Pat and Christine, are both lifetime educators … Her older sister Ashley is a mechanical engineer, and her brother Cole is a fireman in the city of Houston.