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The Nebraska softball team has added another Nebraska native to its incoming freshman class, as Head Coach Rhonda Revelle announced that Jamie Gay will join the Huskers for the 2008-09 season.
Gay, a Beatrice product, is one of four Nebraska natives among the Huskers’ five-player incoming freshman class. As a senior last fall, Gay was named a first-team infielder on the Lincoln Journal Star’s SuperState team and on the Omaha World-Herald’s All-Nebraska team. She was joined on both teams by her future Husker teammates and fellow first-team Super State and All-Nebraska selections Ashley Hagemann and Nikki Haget of Elkhorn and Madison Drake of Lincoln Southwest.
“Jamie is an excellent athlete who loves to compete and win,” Revelle said. “She is a clutch performer who thrives in pressure situations. We are very much looking forward to Jamie being a member of the Husker softball team.”
As a senior, Gay batted .495 with 16 doubles, two home runs and 30 RBIs. While setting school records for average, hits and doubles, Gay ranked second in Class B in hits and doubles, fifth in average and sixth in RBIs. She helped lead Beatrice to a runner-up finish at the state tournament, where Gay lost to four-time state champion Elkhorn, led by Hagemann and Haget. In the championship game, Gay gave the Lady Orange an early lead by hitting a first-inning home run off Hagemann.
In her junior season, Gay was a second-team SuperState selection while batting .444. Gay, the sixth Beatrice native to play for the Huskers, will look to become the latest Beatrice product to enjoy a successful career at Nebraska. The last Beatrice native to play for the Huskers was Ashley DeBuhr, a three-time All-Big 12 selection from 2004 to 2007.
Gay will join her fellow three Nebraska natives as participants in the fourth annual Nebraska Coaches Association All-Star Softball Game on July 30 at Bowlin Stadium. The four incoming Nebraska natives will give the Huskers nine Nebraska products on the 2008-09 roster, the program’s most since 1980. The lone out-of-state recruit coming to Lincoln this fall is Kirby Wright, a catcher from Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.