2025 Softball Roster

18 Kara Hammock

  • Height 6-2
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Mechanicsville, Va.
  • Highschool Atlee
  • Instagram kara.hammock

Biography

Major: Education Sciences

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
As a Senior (2025):
  • 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
As a Junior (2024 - UNCW):
  • 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)
As a Sophomore (2023 - UNCW):
  • 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)
As a Freshman (2022 - UNCW):
  • 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)
High School/Travel:
  • 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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