Louisville Slugger Hit Club: Invite #4… Skylar Wallace

The fourth year of the Louisville Slugger Hit Club will take place in Orange County, California from Saturday, July 28-30, 2018 and will once again produce outstanding college hitters who earn all types of honors.

Past Hit Club participants have included such current college standouts as WCWS MVP Shay Knighten (Oklahoma), National Player of the Year finalist Amanda Lorenz (Florida) and 1^st Team NFCA All-American Aubrey Leach (Tennessee) from the Class of 2015 to recently named NFCA 1^st Team All-Americans such as Nicole “Sis” Bates (Washington) and Aaliyah Jordan (UCLA) from the 2016 Hit Club to last year’s group which included National Freshman of the Year Jocelyn Alo (Oklahoma) and 1^st Team All-SEC and Conference Freshman of the Year Mia Davidson (Mississippi State).

Louisville Slugger and Premier Girls Fastpitch (PGF) have partnered to give 10 elite players in the Class of 2018 the chance to spend three fun and education-filled days that will include:

• spending time at Disneyland
• watching a home game at the Los Angeles Angels’ stadium in Anaheim
• participating in a rope course
• competing to see who ranks as the most impressive hitters and earns the MVP award

Extra Inning Softball is the exclusive media partner for the Louisville Slugger and in the weeks leading up to the three-day event will unveil this year’s class.

So far the standouts announced have included…

• Invite #1: Kassidy Krupit (IF/PF, Baylor)
• Invite #2: Brittany Allen (1B, Florida)
• Invite #3: Kelli Godin (OF, UCLA)

… and we’re happy to announce today that Skylar Wallace, the outstanding athlete who signed with Alabama, is the fourth publicly announced confirmed player who will attend!

Here’s a closer look at 2018 Louisville Slugger Hit Club Invite #4…

NAME: SKYLAR WALLACE
Hometown: Woodstock, Georgia
Positions: Middle infield
Club Team: Georgia Impact – Lewis 18U
High School: Etowah (Woodstock, Georgia)
GPA: 3.75
College: Alabama
When Committed: January, 2014 (freshman year)
Height: 5-foot-10
Other Sports: track
Top Stats/Honors: Extra Inning Softball 1st Team All-American (Multi-Purpose); Extra Elite 100 (#4 overall); PGF All-American; Georgia 7AAAAAA Region Player of the Year; led Etowah High to state title game; hit .560 as a senior with a .655 on-base percentage; hit eight home runs with 53 runs scored and 37 RBI; for her prep career was a two-time All-American and three-time All-State pick; team finished 2nd at Boulder IDT this past weekend.
Other Universities Considered: Florida, Tennessee
Preferred College Major: Business
Scouting Report: Skylar is a lefty hitter who has all the physical tools to be a dominating player in the SEC. She has the size, speed (2.6 home-to-first) and power to be an impact player early on at Alabama. Has the physical tools you can’t teach and has the experience and skills playing elite competition to quickly make the field for the Tide with All-Conference potential at the minimum.

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What’s your approach to hitting that you believe has made you successful?
Going into the box with confidence and strike zone discipline.

What’s been your highlight of your career and why?
Honestly, my highlight hasn’t happened yet. Although I have had a lot of good highlights, I feel as if the best one has not happened yet and that is what drives me every day.

What’s been the #1 thing in your mind that’s helped you develop as a good hitter?
I want to be considered one of the best hitters of all time.

What goes through your mind as you step into the batter’s box?
The first thing that goes through my mind is that the pitcher cannot beat me. I am going to do my job and get on base somehow.

Other than the obvious, getting on base, what would you qualify as a successful at-bat?
An eight or more pitch at-bat even if the result is a strikeout or putting the ball in play and making the opponent make a play.

Who’s a player, past or present, you look up to and why?
Amanda Lorenz, because her character is one of a kind and she inspires me to be the best I can be.

When did you first realize you had the ability to play at the next level?
When I was 10. That was my goal, playing at the next level, so I put the work in to make it become true.

What is it you love about softball if you were explaining your passion for the sport to someone not familiar with it?
The competitiveness in the game. Everybody is out to win at the highest level and it makes it fun when everyone is competing for the same thing: winning PGF.