Hailey Lunderman

Height:
5-8
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Neshoba Central
Hometown:
Philadelphia, Miss.

2016 (Freshman): Only Rebel to start and play in every game in 2016 … Had a breakout freshman campaign as one of the top freshmen in the country … Named a Top-10 Finalist for the NFCA/Schutt Sport Division I National Freshman of the Year … Named to the NFCA All-South Region Second Team … Named to the SEC All-Freshman Team … Appeared in the May 9 issue of Sports Illustrated as one of the featured athletes in the “Faces of the Crowd” … Nation’s second leading freshman hitter with 76 hits, which was first in the SEC among all freshmen … 76 hits broke the Ole Miss single-season record … Also broke the single-season runs record alongside Miranda Strother with 43 runs scored … Stole 19 bases, tied for eighth most all-time in a single year … Led the club with 25 multi-hit games and at one point carried an 11-game hit streak, which tied for fourth-longest of any in school history … Crushed the ball in non-conference play with a .463 average and 56 hits … Drove in 13 runs and stole 12 bases in non-SEC action … Went her first 82 collegiate at-bats without a strikeout and finished first in the SEC in toughest to strikeout with only one every 22.8 at-bats … In her first 28 games, went 45-for-90 at the plate reaching base safely in the first 23 games of the year … Put down two sacrifice bunts on the year and dropped 11 bunts for hits (.647) … Ranked second in the league with 143 assists … Named to the SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll.

High School: Lettered at Neshoba High School … Helped the Rockets to the Mississippi Class 5A State Championship three times, combining for a 94-9 record over those three seasons … Named a MaxPreps 2015 Second team All-American as a senior … Also named the 2015 Mississippi Female Athlete of the Year … Three-time all-state selection (2013, 2014, 2015) … Named all-division in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015 … Dandy Dozen selection in 2014 … Class 5A Softball Player of the Year in 2013 … Played a total of 130 games in high school with a .578 average … Totaled 213 runs scored, 245 hits, 109 RBI, 31 doubles, 21 triples, 11 home runs, an on-base percentage of .628, 1.456 OPS and 94 stolen bases … Nominated to attend the People to People World Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. … Also played basketball.

Club Team: Played for Velocity Gulf Coast, Team Mizuno and the Rapid City Rebels.

Personal: Full name is Hailey Belle Lunderman … Born June 8, 1997 … Daughter of Vanassa Smith and Mark Lunderman … Has two brothers, Cassius and Jad, and one sister, RaLeigh … Majoring in exercise science … Grandfather, Tuffy, is a member of the South Dakota ASA Fastpitch Hall of Fame.