Yvonne Whaley

Career Highlights
2022 All-ACC Third Team
2021 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
2020 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
2019 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team

AS A SENIOR (2022)
Appeared and started in all 41 games at shortstop … Led the team in batting average (.344), hits (45), runs (21) and stolen bases (8) … Second on the team in total bases with 55 and a .387 on-base percentage … In 131 at bats, struck out only 11 times, resulting in 92% of at bats with the ball in play … Tallied four doubles, two home runs, five RBI and 10 walks … Finished 14^th in the ACC in conference play batting average with a .358 mark … Totaled 24 hits, 12 runs, two doubles, two homers, four RBI, three stolen bases and a .419 on-base percentage and .478 slugging percentage in conference action … Had 15 multi-hit games with two games with three hits … Finished the season with a hit in 15 of her last 18 games … Became the first player since Giorgiana Zeremenko (2018) to hit above .340 in a single-season … Recorded six hits in total in four games in the Texas A&M Invitational … Went 2-for-3 with a double and two runs vs. Tennessee Tech (2/25) … Back-to-back two hit performances vs. Bowling Green (3/11) and Houston Baptist (3/11) … Had three hits in four at bats and a run vs. Notre Dame (3/19) … In five games from Mar. 25 to April 6, recorded eight hits, a double, stolen base and three runs … Finished the three game Boston College series with five hits, three RBI, a home run, two walks and three runs … Went 2-for-3 with a double, RBI, two runs and a walk at Virginia (4/23).

2021 (AT TEXAS TECH)
Appeared in 46 games, starting in 44 … Led the team in multiple offensive categories, including batting average (.342), hits (50), doubles (9) and tied for first in runs (24) and on-base percentage (.381) … Recorded 15 RBI, eight stolen bases and nine walks … Had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage, recording 59 putouts and turning one double play … Received Academic All-Big 12 Second Team.

2020 (AT TEXAS TECH)
Appeared in 22 games, starting in 19 before the season was shut down due to COVID-19 … Second on team in batting average (.326) and runs (14) … Tallied 15 hits, two doubles, a triple, six RBI and had eight walks and eight stolen bases … Led the team with a .436 on-base percentage … Earned Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

2019 (AT TEXAS TECH)
Appeared in 43 games, starting in 33 … Batted .291 with 23 hits, 13 runs, four doubles and eight RBI … Recorded her first collegiate hit vs. Nebraska Feb. 8 … Named Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team.

HIGH SCHOOL
Attended J. Frank Dobie High School in Houston, Texas … Hit .417 with 35 hits freshman year, .539 with 48 hits sophomore season, .651 with 56 hits junior year and .570 with 57 hits her senior campaign … Her .651 batting average junior year broke the J. Frank Dobie High School single-season record … Four-time 22-6A First Team selection, two-time TSWA All-State Honorable Mention honoree and was named District MVP senior season … Four-year letterwinner in volleyball and named 22-6A First Team senior year … Also competed in track senior season.

CLUB
Played for Sudden Impact from 2014-17 … Member of Scrapyard International from 2017-18.

PERSONAL
Daughter of Terrance and Esmeralda Whaley … Is the youngest of seven … Has three sisters, Gabby, Nikki and Denise and three brothers, Terrance, Marcus and Jason … Cousin Chris played football for the University of Texas … Coaches 12U travel ball during the summertime … Loves sour gummy worms and playing with her German Shepherd puppy Ruth.

*courtesy of Pitt Athletics