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As we get ready to launch the initial 2025 Extra Elite 100 rankings three weeks from Monday (May 18, 2020), we will look at some of the top players in the class and one of the most well-known current 7th graders is Anna Hinde, a power-hitting third baseman/catcher who’s playing up at a 16U team.
Last May, we profiled her in an article titled Why Anna Hinde Is a Power Hitter to Watch in the 2025 Class… and What She Did to Get There.
She has been invited and has attended elite prospect camps since the 5th grade and here’s a story that explains why:
As a Power 5 coach watched one of her games in the Colorado Sparkler Jr. last year, he asked one of her club coaches if Anna had on the wrong jersey after she hit a line drive double off the fence in right center. When the coach asked why, he said it had “2025” on the sleeve and it was not possible that she was a 2025. The coach added needed her at the university’s camp as soon as possible.
Another story: after she hit a solo home run at the Atlanta Fastpitch Showcase against a nationally ranked team, Anna was immediately invited to an SEC school’s elite prospect camp where she reportedly had the highest exit velo in the entire team camp. The SEC head coach told her after one camp: “You would have had your hands full if the recruiting rules wouldn’t have changed.”
It helps that Anna works out with some of the most accomplished accomplished and legendary players in the history of softball.
She trains with Lauren Haeger, the former Florida Gator who won two national championships and was the 2015 National Player of the Year, and here is seen catching the two-time All-American:
“Anna is one of the most hardworking young women I have ever seen,” Haeger says. “She is a great teammate and will selflessly do anything to take care of her teammates and pitchers. Her dedication to this sport, her academic gifts, and her drive to be the best at what she does are all setting her up to thrive at the highest level. You have to be different to play at the highest level and Anna is that perfect “different” Division 1 softball is looking for.”
She also gets hitting work done with Jenn Salling, the former University of Washington All-American and 2009 Women’s College World Series champions who is on the Canadian National Team and played in the 2008 Olympics:
“I am completely impressed with Anna’s level of maturity,” Salling begins. “Her ability to process information and execute what’s being asked (as quickly as she does) I find is rare for someone her age. Very quickly it became evident to me how passionate Anna truly is in becoming an elite level softball player. Her teachable spirit, passion, commitment, discipline and softball IQ are rare personality traits.”
*** Go inside “Extra Star Power” to learn more about one of the top 2025 prospects in the nation.