2025 Softball Roster
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Hammock, Kara
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Jersey Number 18
Kara Hammock
- Height:
- 6-2
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Mechanicsville, Va.
- High School:
- Atlee
Bio
Major: Education Sciences
Career Honors:
Career Honors:
- 2025 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
- 2024 All-CAA Second Team
- 2024 CAA Tournament MVP
- 2024 CAA All-Tournament Team
- 2023 All-CAA First Team
- 2022 CAA Rookie of the Year
- 2022 All-CAA Second Team
- 2022 All-CAA Rookie Team
- 2022 CAA All-Tournament Team
- 2022 CAA Pitcher of the Week (Feb.15, Apr.4)
- 2022 Extra Innings Softball's All-Region team
- Statistics:
- Made 25 appearances in the circle, starting 11 games
- Held a 9-2 record on the season, including a 3-1 mark in SEC play
- Threw 64 innings, racking up 42 strikeouts
- Notables:
- Struck out a season-high five batters vs. Boston College (Feb. 13)
- Combined with teammate Katelyn Oxley to shutout UCF (March 12), throwing a season-high 6.2 innings, allowing just four hits with four strikeouts
- Picked up first career SEC victory at No. 5/4 Texas A&M (March 9), tossing three hit-less innings with a pair of strikeouts
- Earned a victory over No. 1 Oklahoma (May 2) on Senior Day, pitching four innings with two strikeouts
- Honors:
- 2024 All-CAA Second Team selection
- 2024 CAA Tournament MVP
- 2024 CAA All-Tournament Team
- Statistics:
- Held a 17-6 record in the circle with a 1.60 ERA, the fourth-lowest in CAA
- Set career-highs in wins (17), innings (157.2), strikeouts (101), complete games (15), starts (22) and games played (32) in junior season
- Combined with teammate Emily Winstead to record every out of five-game CAA Tournament run
- Recorded a career-high 11 inning shutout effort against Delaware to send the Seahawks to the CAA Championship Round (May 10)
- Tossed three complete games with three wins in CAA Tournament
- Limited opponents to two earned runs in 25 innings
- Had a season-high nine strikeouts in complete game shutout vs. George Mason (Feb. 22)
- Opened season with a seven-strikeout shutout win vs. Queens (Feb. 8)
- Pitched two scoreless innings in relief in win a North Carolina to earn a save (April 3)
- Threw five innings in NCAA Regional vs. Charlotte (May 18)
- Honors:
- 2023 All-CAA First Team
- Statistics:
- Held a 10-10 record in the circle with a 1.98 ERA, the third-lowest in the CAA
- Tossed a team-high 109.1 innings, while limiting opponents to a .227 batting average
- Finished the season with 88 strikeouts, 10 complete games, including two shutouts, and a save
- Recorded a career-high 11 strikeouts in eight-innings in season-opening victory vs. Purdue-Fort Wayne (Feb. 9)
- Tallied at least seven strikeouts in five games
- Allowed two or fewer earned runs in 19 multi-inning appearances
- Earned a save vs. North Carolina A&T (March 26)
- Honors:
- 2022 CAA Rookie of the Year
- 2022 All-CAA Second Team
- 2022 All-CAA Rookie Team
- 2022 CAA All-Tournament Team
- 2022 CAA Pitcher of the Week (Feb.15, Apr.4)
- 2022 Extra Innings Softball's All-Region team
- Statistics:
- Held a 12-3 record in the circle with a CAA-low 1.92 ERA in 105.2 innings
- Made 24 appearances with 16 starts
- Earned All-Tournament Honors at CAA Championships with a 0.95 ERA in 7.1 innings and a save
- Led the CAA with a 1.37 ERA in 11 league appearances
- Paced the conference with four shutouts in 15 starts
- Started college career with three straight complete games, including a career-high 10 strikeout performance vs. Toledo (Feb. 13)
- Two-time CAA Pitcher of the Week (Feb. 15, Apr. 4)
- Pitched a career-high 10 innings against Louisiana in her NCAA Tournament debut, stranding 12 Ragin' Cajuns on base and matching a career-best of 10 strikeouts (May 21)
- Four-year letter winner at Atlee High School
- Earned Second-Team All-Region honors in 2018 after limiting opponents to .062 batting average
- Posted a 2.07 ERA as a sophomore with 124 strikeouts and .172 batting average
- Held a 1.45 ERA during senior season with 83 strikeouts in 67.1 innings, while also hitting .371 with a .515 slugging percentage
- A two-sport athlete who also played volleyball for the Raiders
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