Hannah Wells (Coahoma, TX) named Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year

Lance Smith

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Gatorade has announced Coahoma (TX) senior right-handed pitcher Hannah Wells as its National Softball Player of the Year.

Wells, who stands six feet tall, led the Bulldogs to a 35-1 record and UIL 3A Division II state championship this spring, going 22-1 with a 0.44 ERA and 258 strikeouts in 127.2 innings. And she might've been even better at the plate, hitting .602 with 31 home runs, 75 RBI, and a 2.287 OPS. The 31 home runs was a state single-season record, and she also broke the state record in career home runs with 86 long balls.

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Across 10 playoff games, Wells hit 17-32 (.531) with 10 home runs, 20 RBI, and four walks. She went 9-1 in the circle with just seven total runs and four earned runs allowed, striking out 114 in 64 innings.

In a case of the rich getting richer, she has signed with Texas to join the newly-crowned NCAA champions in the fall. Wells has already been committed to the Longhorns for nearly two years.

Lance Smith

Lance has covered high school basketball, football and softball since 2019. A graduate of The USC Marshall School of Business, Smith dabbles in linear algebra and football and basketball computer rankings.