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2024 Softball Roster

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  • P/INF
    Position
  • Junior
    Class
  • New Braunfels, Texas
    Hometown
  • 5'7
    Height
  • New Braunfels Canyon High School
    High School
Aliyah Binford Headshot 2024
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Aliyah Binford
P/INF
Position
Junior
Class
New Braunfels, Texas
Hometown

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Biography

2024 NFCA All-Region Second Team
2024 All-Big 12 Second Team
2024 Academic All-Big 12 Frist Team
2022 All-Big 12 Second Team
2022 NFCA All-Region First Team
2022 NISC All-Tournament MVP
2021 Big 12 Pitcher of the Week (3/16)

2020 Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (Spring)

2024
Came back from a season ending injury in 2023 … Appeared in 52 of 59 games, starting in 47 … Saw 31 appearances in the circle with 23 starts … Recorded 154 strikeouts in 153.2 innings pitched … Pitched 12 complete games with two shutouts and two saves … Hit .272 on the season with 34 hits, seven doubles and three home runs … Brought home 21 RBIs, including four against Louisiana from a grand slam … Tied a career-high with 11 strikeouts on three different occasions … Pitched nine seven-inning games to tie a career-high … Led the Big 12 in strikeouts (154) and batters struck out looking (54) … Ended 69th nationally in strikeouts and 71st nationally in strikeouts per seven innings … All-Big 12 Second Team … Academic All-Big 12 First team … NFCA All-Region Second Team. 

2023
Played and started in 11 games before suffering a season ending injury … Hit .440 with 11 hits, a triple, a double and a home run … Was 2-0 in the circle with six appearances and three starts … Totaled 21 strikeouts in 21.0 innings pitched.

2022
Started in 54 games … Starting pitcher in 14 of games … Racked up 156 strikeouts in 137 innings of work … Had a 9-6 win-loss record and a 2.66 ERA … Led the team to a 17-3 win over No.14 Texas, pitching a complete game, striking out five … Led the Bears in doubles (15) and home runs (5). Went 3-for-3 with three RBI against No.14 Texas (5/6) ... Set a new career-high in single game strikeouts (11) against Northwestern State (2/11) … All-Big 12 Second Team … NISC All-Tournament MVP … NFCA All-Region First Team.

2021 
Started 46 games for BU … Split time between shortstop and the circle … Hit .273 in the middle of the lineup for BU with five home runs and a team-best 28 RBI … Had 11 multi-hit games and two games with five o more RBI … Was a triple short of the cycle at Grand Canyon (3/13) … Tied a Getterman Stadium record with six RBI as she launched back-to-back three-run home runs vs. Kansas (4/30) … Pitched 5.2 innings of relief at top-10 ranked Arizona State and held one of the nation’s most powerful offenses to no runs off four hits with two walks and four strikeouts en route to being named the Big 12’s Pitcher of the Week.

2020
Hit her first home run at Getterman Stadium, and second of her career, against Illinois to give BU the lead for good late in the game … Hit her first career home run against Missouri … Picked up her first career save vs. Grand Canyon … Made a monster catch at shortstop to keep any runs from crossing the plate in the extra inning win over No. 17 Minnesota … Homered against Louisiana Tech to give her a home run in back-to-back games … Led the team with 14 RBI … In the circle, picked up all three of Baylor’s wins in Arkansas, including two over ranked teams – No. 21 Arkansas and No. 8 Florida State … Finished the season with a 7-0 record.

HIGH SCHOOL
2019 graduate of New Braunfels Canyon High School ... Played club for the Scrap Yard Internationals organization out of The Woodlands, Texas, under coach Connie May ... Two-time High School All-American and three-time MVP for her high school team that advanced to the 6A state tournament the last two years ... Rated as the No. 25 prospect by Extra Innings Softball ...Went 9-0 in the circle with a 0.56 ERA and 126 strikeouts as a junior as she led the Cougars to the state championship game.

PERSONAL
Daughter of Gregory and Betty Binford ... Goes by LeeLee ... Participated in food drives in her community ... Plans to major in Journalism ... Loves to read and swim.