Gabby Alvarez

Height:
5-9
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hometown:
Riverside, Calif.

2021 (SENIOR): Appeared in 39 games with 31 starts, primarily at designated player … Registered a .227 batting average with a .344 OBP … Took 5-of-17 hits for extra bases, tallying three doubles and a pair of homers … Drove in nine runs and scored five more … Reached in all three plate appearances against Troy (2/12), registering a pair of hits … Went 2-for-3 with a solo home run at Texas (2/28) … Drove in four runs on two hits against South Carolina (4/10), including the game-winning three-run home run.

2020 (JUNIOR): Season cut short due to the spread of novel coronavirus COVID-19 ... Appeared in 21 games, making 18 starts … Finished the season with a .178 batting average, posting a pair of doubles … Drove in six runs with one additional run scored … Delivered three sacrifice bunts and a pair of sacrifice flies … Registered one error in 108 opportunities for a .991 fielding percentage … Hit safely in four of the season’s first five games … Went 2-for-4 with a double against Utah (2/13) … Batted 2-for-2 with a walk at UAB (2/21), driving in one run.

2019 (SOPHOMORE): Appeared in 49 games, making 17 starts at first base and as a designated player ... Batted .264 with 19 hits, ... Registered five doubles and a pair of home runs for a .417 slugging percentage ... Drove in 15 runs, scoring two herself ... Led the team with six pinch hits, including a pair of home runs ... Smoked a pinch hit, walk-off grand slam against Samford (3/15) ... Launched a two-run pinch hit homer at Kentucky (4/5) ... Went 2-for-3 with a double against Missouri (4/14) ... Posted a 2-for-3 performance at the plate with an RBI versus Tennessee (4/28) ... Went 2-for-4 in the NCAA Oxford Regional against Louisiana (5/19).

2018 (REDSHIRT-FRESHMAN): Appeared in 32 games, starting 11 times as a designated player or first baseman ... Registered six hits in 43 at-bats, notching seven RBIs with a pair of home runs and a double ... Posted first hit of her career against Texas, smacking a double ... Made first-career start against SIUE ... Clobbered her first home run versus Chattanooga. finishing the game with two RBIs ... Smacked a two-RBI dinger at Texas A&M.

2017 (FRESHMAN): Injured in the preseason and redshirted.

HIGH SCHOOL: Played at Martin Luther King Jr. HS in Riverside, Calif. … Named First Team All-CIF as a senior … Earned Big 8 League Champion Award as a freshman and sophomore and a finalist for the CIF Award in 2014 … Two-time scholar athlete and two-time recipient of the Riverside County Academic Award … Finished her high school career with 14 career home runs and 64 RBI … Hit .410 as a senior slugging at a .620 clip … As a junior, hit .316 with a .392 slugging percentage and .433 on-base mark … Graduated with honors and State Seal of Biliteracy.

PERSONAL: Full name is Gabriela Alexandra Alvarez … Born May 23, 1998 … Daughter of George and Sylvia Alvarez … Has two brothers, Christopher and Andrew.