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Jersey Number 21
Kayli Kvistad
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Lake City, Fla.
- High School:
- Columbia
Major: Communication Sciences & Disorders
Career Honors:
UF Career Ranks:
NCAA Career Ranks (2015-18):
Career Highlights:
Honors:
Stats:
NCAA Ranks:
SEC Ranks:
UF Senior Records:
UF Career Records:
Notables:
As a Junior (2017):
As a Sophomore (2016):
As a Freshman (2015):
High School / Travel Ball:
Career Honors:
- 2018 Senior CLASS Award Top 10 Finalist
- 2018 Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete
- 2018 SEC Academic Honor Roll
- 2018 Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-District
- 2017 NFCA Third Team All-American
- 2017 NFCA All-Southeast Region Second Team
- 2017 All-SEC First Team
- 2017 CoSIDA Academic All-American Second Team
- 2017 SEC Academic Honor Roll
- 2017 SEC Player of the Week (4/25)
- 2017 All-SEC Community Service Team
- 2016 First Team Academic All-American
- Became the ninth UF softball player to earn Academic All-America honors and first since Michelle Moultrie in 2012
- 2016 Second Team All-American
- 2016 First Team All-Southeast Region
- 2016 First Team All-SEC
- 2016 SEC Academic Honor Roll
- 2015 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
- 2015 NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete
UF Career Ranks:
- On Base Percentage – .492 (Second)
- RBI – 193 (Fifth)
- Walks – 186 (First)
- SAC Flies – 11 (Second)
- Fielding Percentage – .991 (Tenth)
NCAA Career Ranks (2015-18):
- Games Played – 255 (Third)
- Walks – 186 (Second)
Career Highlights:
- With two outs in the 7th inning and the score tied in UF's series opener at No. 3 Auburn in 2016, Kvistad hit a go-ahead three-run home run to propel the Gators to victory
- One of nine Gators to record a perfect fielding percentage (minimum 50 chances) in a season
- Did not make an error in 105 chances in 2015
Honors:
- Senior CLASS Award Top 10 Finalist
- Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete
- SEC Academic Honor Roll
- Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-District
Stats:
- Played and started in 66 games for the Gators and hit .311 going 47-for-164 with six doubles, one triple and six home runs. Also, reached base via 58 walks and seven hit by pitches.
- Registered eight multi-hit games and 12 multi-RBI games along with a six game hit streak and 21 game reached base safely streak.
NCAA Ranks:
- Walks – 58 (Eighth)
SEC Ranks:
- On Base Percentage – .481 (Eighth)
- Walks – 58 (Second)
- SAC Flies – 4 (Fourth)
- Total Plate Appearances – 235 (Sixth)
UF Senior Records:
- Walks – 58 (First)
- SAC Flies – 4 (Fourth)
- Putouts – 333 (Eighth)
UF Career Records:
- On Base Percentage – .492 (Second)
- RBI – 193 (Fifth)
- Walks – 186 (First)
- SAC Flies – 11 (Second)
- Fielding Percentage – .991 (Tenth)
Notables:
- Went 6-for-8 at the plate in the Women’s College World Series with three RBI, two runs scored, a pair of walks and a home run.
- Hit her first walk-off of the season a 3-2 win over No. 23/22 Kentucky (3/10) with an RBI single up the middle in the bottom of the seventh to score DeWitt from second.
As a Junior (2017):
- Honors:
- NFCA Third Team All-American
- NFCA All-Southeast Region Second Team
- All-SEC First Team
- CoSIDA Academic All-American Second Team
- SEC Academic Honor Roll
- SEC Player of the Week (4/25)
- NCAA Ranks:
- Hits – 64 (T-130th)
- On Base Percentage – .554 (Eighth)
- Slugging Percentage – .603 (168th)
- Total Bases – 105 (109th)
- Walks – 0.99 (Sixth)
- SEC Ranks:
- Batting Average – .368 (10th)
- Doubles – 14 (T-Seventh)
- Total Bases – 105 (11th)
- Slugging Percentage – .603 (Seventh)
- Hits – 64 (T-11th)
- Walks – 67 (First)
- On Base Percentage – .554 (Second)
- RBI – 53 (Fifth)
- Hit By Pitch – 8 (T-Eighth)
- Total Plate Appearances – 251 (T-Fourth)
- Chances – 325 (12th)
- Putouts – 316 (11th)
- UF Single Season Ranks:
- On Base Percentage – .554 (First)
- Walks – 67 (First)
- UF Junior Ranks:
- Walks – 67 (First)
- On-Base Percentage – .554 (First)
- Batting Average – .368 (Fifth)
- Hits – 64 (T-Ninth)
- Doubles – 14 (T-Eighth)
- RBI – 53 (T-Sixth)
- Putouts – 316 (10th)
- Fielding Percentage – .994 (Fourth)
As a Sophomore (2016):
- Honors:
- 2016 First Team Academic All-American
- Became the ninth UF softball player to earn Academic All-America honors and first since Michelle Moultrie in 2012
- 2016 Second Team All-American
- 2016 First Team All-Southeast Region
- 2016 First Team All-SEC
- 2016 SEC Academic Honor Roll
- Stats:
- Recorded a .370 batting average (54-for-146), including a team-high 11 home runs, six doubles and a team-best 60 RBI and .637 slugging percentage. In addition, Kvistad scored 25 runs and notched a .500 on-base percentage as she tallied 36 walks and six hit-by-pitches.
- Did not play a defensive inning as she served as Florida's DP throughout the entire season
- NCAA Ranks:
- OBP – .500 (57th)
- RBI – 60 (27th)
- SEC Ranks:
- OBP – .500 (12th)
- RBI – 60 (T-13th)
- Sacrifice Flies – 4 (Fifth)
- UF Single Season Ranks:
- OBP – .500 (Eighth)
- UF Sophomore Records:
- Batting Average – .370 (Third)
- OBP – .500 (Second)
- Home Runs – 11 (T-7th)
- RBI – 60 (Fifth)
- Slugging Percentage – .637 (6th)
- Walks – 36 (Sixth)
- Sacrifice Flies – 4 (Third)
- Notables:
- Recorded a five RBI performance in UF's series opener against Mississippi State
- During that contest, she recorded her third-career and second multi-home run game of the season
- With two outs in the 7th inning and the score tied in UF' series opener at No. 3 Auburn, she hit a go-ahead three-run home run to propel the Gators to victory
As a Freshman (2015):
- Honors:
- First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll Selection
- NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete
- Stats:
- 60 games / 37 starts
- Notched six multi-hit games and eight multi-RBI contests
- Had the highest RBI total (36) and slugging percentage (.454) among her freshman class
- Recorded a perfect fielding percentage (104 putouts, 1 assist)
- UF Freshman Records:
- Home Runs – 6 (T-8th)
- RBI – 36 (Eighth)
- Notables:
- Smacked an RBI double in her first collegiate at-bat on February 6 against Hampton
- Hit her first-career homerun on February 7 against Illinois State
- Recorded her first career multi-homer game on Feb. 22 vs. Mercer in Game 2 of a doubleheader
- Drove in a season-high four runs on three occasions (2/11 at Jacksonville; 2/22 vs. Mercer - Game 2; 3/28 at Mississippi State)
- Notched three RBI in Game 1 of the Super Regional with a bases-clearing double
- Went 2-for-3 with a two-run home run in Florida’s opening game of the WCWS against Tennessee
High School / Travel Ball:
- 2014 graduate of Columbia High School in Lake City, Fla.
- Played travel ball with the Gold Coast Hurricanes 18U Gold, coached by Marty Cooper
- Gold Coast finished third in 2014 in the Colorado Fireworks Tournament and ninth at the PGF Nationals
- Columbia won 104 games during her four years
- Led Columbia to the FHSAA 6A State Championship in 2013 under coach Jimmy Williams
- Four-time All-American after setting school records for batting average and home runs (44)
- Three-time Gainesville Sun Big School Player of the Year (2012-14)
- Two-time Florida Dairy Farmers 6A Player of the Year (2013-14)
- No. 6 national recruit in the StudentSports.com 2014 Softball Top 100
- A three-sport athlete who also played volleyball and soccer
- Graduated eighth in her high school class of 350
- Is the niece of Montez Wynn, a former UF student-athlete, who was a member of the Gator women’s basketball team from 1973-74 and softball team from 1974-75
- Intends to pursue a career as a speech and language pathologist
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