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Last weekend (Sept. 8-9, 2018), Alana Vawter, a senior at Staley (Missouri) High, took an official visit to the University of Texas where she had been committed since 2016 when Connie Clark was the head coach. When Clark resigned this summer and Mike White took over, Alana’s recruiting opened up again and she also considered Stanford where she took an official this weekend.
The outstanding pitcher and power hitter ranked in the Top 25 in the recently released Extra Elite 100 was one of only two standouts in the 2019 Extra Elite 100 who hadn’t finalized her decision heading into the final weekend before the Signing Period starts Wednesday–the other is top-ranked pitcher/hitter Kelley Lynch–and in an Inside Pitch article on THE BIG DECISION Alana talked about what she was facing in narrowing her college choice down to two.
After her visit to Stanford, the decision was made and in this latest first-person Inside Pitch Alana recaps how the factors in her decision went all the way back to 2014.
And the winner is…
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Flashback to 2015.
My family, mom, dad, two brothers & myself, were vacationing out in California for Spring Break. We had just flown into San Francisco and wanted to explore around some so we decided our first stop would have to be Google. My mom and I rode around the closed campus on Sunday afternoon on the “Google bikes.”