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Our Extra Inning Softball National Club Player & National Club Team of the Week series reaches Week 2 for the 2020 summer season with today’s edition.
The Club Player/Team of the Week features great individual and team accomplishments from the past weekend along with those who were Runners-Up with similarly strong performances.
This week’s honorees are from games and tournaments in the week of Monday, June 15 through Sunday June 21, 2020… scroll to the bottom for details to submit info for future candidates.
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National Club Player of the Week:
Olivia McFadden (Texas Bombers – Burgess 16U)
* Olivia McFadden, a 2021 corner infielder with the Texas Bombers had a great season for man players in one week.
The Texas-San Antonio commit hit .500 with seven home runs and had 21 RBIs to help the Bombers, coached by James Burgess, go 14-0 for the week while playing an exhausting schedule that included playing seven days in a row.
Last Monday through Wednesday, the Bombers played in the TCS Texas State Tournament and were champs, then played and won a doubleheader last Thursday in the first Texas FastPitch League games before finishing up undefeated in Pool play and taking the first Bracket game Friday through Sunday of the Texas Cup before it was cancelled due to rain.
“From the day Olivia joined our team until her last at bat this weekend,” Coach Burgess said, “She’s been our rudder, pointing us in the right direction all season long. All she does is hit!”
For the combined fall and spring seasons, the incoming senior is hitting .463 and has 17 home runs with 80 RBIs. Surprisingly, she says that she still has room to improve.
“As far as how I’m feeling right now, it may sound crazy, but I know I can do better,” Olivia feels. “ There were several at-bats where I know I could’ve executed my plan better. However, I now understand the importance of being able to find success even with my ‘B-swing.’ At this level, everyone does damage when they square it up with their ‘A-swing’ but the elite players are able to get it done with their ‘B-swing.’”
Click HERE to see one of Olivia’s seven home runs this week!
The talented slugger says there are several reasons she committed to Texas-San Antonio.
“ was attracted to UTSA because I believe in the coaching staff and the program,” explains the Texas. “I strongly believe they’re building something special. In addition, it helps that it’s only two and a half hours from home which is close enough for my parents to come watch me play, but yet far enough to allow me to mature and develop my independence.”
She said she committed to the Birds with her parents in mind, if only half-jokingly.
“After 10- plus years of travel ball and snuggling up in some of the tiniest hotel beds across the county,” Olivia laughs, “maybe my parents will enjoy a long-distance relationship—if only for four years.”
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Runners-Up / National Player of the Week
* Mekayla Frazier, a 2020 2B/3B/SS, is playing in the Florida Gulf Coast League and had a strong debut for the Bradenton Lynx team that includes mostly (current) college players. In three games, she hit .500 with a .583 on-base percentage, a 1.983 OPS and had 7 RBIs, 2 walks and no errors in the field (eight chances). Perhaps most impressingly she hit two home runs in one game including one off Oklahoma Sooner pitcher Shannon Saile. The Elon signee was a four-time 1st Team All-State honoree and two time Extra Inning Softball All-American (Infielder).
* The Tampa Mustangs – TJ 18U team is playing as an at-large team in the Florida Gulf Coast League and two of TJ Goelz’s top players impressed playing the college-level competition: 2020 MIF Kali Reis, a Florida signee, hit .571 last league and had two home runs and 7 RBIs while 2021C/3B Taylor Krapf, Duke commit, also hit .571 with a home run and 5 RBIs.
* Three players on Kevin Shelton’s loaded Texas Glory 18U team could have won POY honors as well as his team finished as TCS Texas State Championship co-champs on Jun 15 and then played four games in the Glory Summer Shootout before rain shortened the event.
SS Jayda Coleman, the #1 ranked player in the 2020 Extra Elite 100, batted .731 for the week as she had 19 hits in 26 official at-bats and compiled a stellar 1.836 OPS. Trinity Cannon, a 2020 corner infielder headed to Texas A&M and a National Club POY last year, put up great power numbers, hitting 9 home runs with 24 RBIs in 11 games for an amazing 2.313 OPS and Micael Wark, a 202 IF committed to Kansas, hit .562 and had 6 home runs and 18 RBIs for the week playing in nine games.
* Staying in the Glory organization, Tori Edwards, a 2023 IF ranked #73 in the previous Extra Elite 100 rankings, played in four games for Ed Naudin’s 14U Texas Glory team but managed to hit two grand slams as part of a .625 batting average with 10 RBIs and managed to turn two solo double plays.
Scroll down to see who else was honored as Runners-Up Players of the Week & who took the National Club Team of the Week!