Haley Hayden (2025) - Louisiana Athletics Hall of Fame

Haley Hayden

Induction:
2025
Class:
2017

UL’s all-time career leader in runs scored (251) a decade after her final playing season, which still ranks as one of top 30 marks in NCAA history (24^th at end of career) … Four-time All-Sun Belt Conference selection as outfielder including first-team three times (2014, 2015, 2017) and second-team in 2016 … Four-time NFCA All-Region selection … Also 2017 national Academic All-America pick and four-time member of Sun Belt’s Commissioner’s List or Honor Roll academically … Ranks fourth in UL history in hits (297, 11 short of career record) and at-bats (758) and fifth in total bases … Holds career .365 batting average and .644 slugging percentage … Started every game (224 games) in four-year career … Led team in at-bats all four years and led team in runs and hits each of last three years including more than 60 hits in each of her four seasons … Double-figure doubles each year … Career totals of 49 HR, 214 RBI and 29-of-33 stolen bases … Played some in infield during sophomore and junior year but returned to outfield as senior and went errorless in 197 chances to set school record 1.000 fielding mark (one of only three regulars ever to field 1.000 in a season) … Had only 15 errors in four years, all but two coming while playing in infield … Team had combined 184-39 record for career and 83-7 mark in Sun Belt, and won six SBC titles (four regular-season, two tournament), while winning three NCAA regionals as a national seed (11-3 record in regionals) and advancing to College World Series in 2014.