2009 Softball Roster

13 Holly Willis

  • Position Outfielder
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • High School Great Bridge HS
  • Hometown Chesapeake, VA

Biography

CAREER: Three-year starter in the outfield and a two-time all-CAA selection . . . Career batting average of .323 with one home run and 50 RBI ... 37-for-48 on stolen bases ... Recorded 41 sacrifice hits.

2009: Named All-CAA Second team... Started 46 games in the outfield ...Led the CAA with 26 sacrifice bunts...Her average of 0.54 sacrifice hits per game LED THE NATION ... Finished with a .313 batting average...Registered 45 hits, including two doubles...Stole 10 bases in 14 attempts...Had 14 multiple-hit game performances...Finished the season with multiple hits in the last five games...Named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll for both semesters.

2008: Named the 2008 Colonial Athletic Association Softball Scholar-Athlete of the Year...First-Team All-CAA outfielder... Played in 55 games this season, started in 54...Had the third highest batting average with .354...Ranked ninth in CAA batting average...Produced 52 hits, driving in 27 runs, while crossing the plate 36 times...Tied for second on the team with six sacrifice bunts...Stole 17 bases in 20 attempts...Doubled her last year’s multiple-hit game performance, finishing the season with 16...Had nine outfield assists...Made a game-saving play in the top of the seventh against Hofstra on 4/12 from left field, throwing out the tying run at the plate, winning the game 1-0...Made the Dean’s List both semesters.

2007:
Started 52 of 58 games played...Had the third highest batting average with .301 while producing 44 hits...Hit a double and a triple with 16 RBIs this season...Stole a season high 10 bases...Had nine sacrifice bunts to advance runners...Powered her first career home run versus Delaware on May 5...Finished the season with eight multiple hit games and four multiple RBI games...Ended the season on a two-game hitting streak...Was sixth in the CAA in both sacrifice hits and stolen bases...On the Dean's List in the fall and Athletic Director's Honor Roll in both semesters...CAA Commissioner's Academic Award recipient.

2006: Appeared in 18 games...Primarily as a pinch runner...Scored nine runs...Recorded a stolen base...Was a Faculty Scholar, Dean’s List and Athletic Director’s Honor Roll honoree in the fall...Earn Dean’s List and A.D Honor roll in the spring...Received the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Award.

Prep: Lettered for four years in softball and in volleyball for two seasons...Was named Most Valuable Player of her team in 2005...Received First Team All-Region, All-Tidewater, and All-Southeast District in 2005 with the Great Bridge High School Wildcats...Also was named Second-Team All-Southeast District in 2004.

Personal:
Born October 6, 1987, in Chesapeake, Virginia...Her parents are Kathy Bryan and Howie Bryan...Has two older brothers (Robert Willis and Casey Bryan), and a younger sister (Leighann Bryan)...Holly chose Georgia State in part because it is a large school in an urban setting...Nursing major.

CAREER STATISTICS

Year G GS Avg AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K HB SB SBA SF SH
 2006 18 0  0.000 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 2007 58 52  0.301 146 20 44 1 1 1 16 9 25 2 10 14 0 9
 2008 55 54  0.354 147 36 52 3 0 0 27 6 22 0 17 20 1 6
 2009 47 46  0.313 144 24 45 2 0 0 7 5 17 0 10 14 0 26
TOTAL 178 152  0.323 437 86 141 6 1 1 50 20 64 2 37 48 1 41

 

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Historical Player Information

  • 13

    2007Sophomore

    Pitcher/Designated Player
    5'7"
    13
  • 13

    2008Junior

    Pitcher/Designated Player
    5'7"
    13
  • 13

    2009Senior

    Outfielder
    5'7"
    13