Two players that helped build the foundation for McNeese’s sustained softball success have both been elected to the Cowgirls’ Hall of Fame.
Jamie Allred and Emily Vincent, who both played in Lake Charles from 2013-16, are part of the five-member Class of 2022. The group will be officially inducted in January.
Part of three Southland championships, including the 2016 conference tournament championship that earned the Cowgirls an NCAA tournament berth, both Allred and Vincent left their marks on the McNeese softball program.
Allred set a program record with 68 career wins in the circle, finishing her tenure with an overall mark of 68-26. She also set the single-season wins record with 27 victories in 2014 and led the Southland Conference that year with a 1.57 ERA. She posted twenty career shutouts, made 132 career appearances – including 91 starts – and collected 529 strikeouts and a 2.02 career ERA in more than 614 innings of work. Allred earned a trio of all-conference honors and was the 2014 Southland Pitcher of the Year.
Vincent earned four all-conference selections, two as a pitcher and two as a designated player. She led the Southland with 158 strikeouts from the circle in 2016 and also led the league with a 1.45 ERA that same year. She collected 36 career wins in the circle and set a school record with nine career saves. She pitched more than 345 innings, collecting a 2.07 ERA and 312 strikeouts along the way, and also contributed with her bat, finishing her career second in program history with 12 career triples and 3rd in the record books with 141 career RBIs.
In their post-college days, Vincent spent one year as a professional softball player in the now-defunct National Pro Fastpitch league and both embarked on collegiate coaching careers. Vincent spent several years as the pitching coach at UNLV, including tutoring Jenny Bressler to a record-setting career as a Rebel.
For her part, Allred began her college coaching career at Austin Peay before following head coach Rodney DeLong to North Texas, where she has successfully tutored the Mean Green pitching staff and was part of the coaching staff that led the program to a Conference USA tournament title and a regional final berth last season.
Allred and Vincent are the first Cowgirl softball players elected to the Hall of Fame since 2004. The duo are the 3rd and 4th softball players to ever be inducted by the school.
