Lexie Elkins (2023) - Louisiana Athletics Hall of Fame

Lexie Elkins

Induction:
2023
Class:
2017

Twice a first-team All-America selection and an All-America pick in all of her three Cajun seasons, and one of the most decorated athletes in the history of a nationally-prominent program … Two-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association Catcher of the Year along with the three All-America honors including first-team selection in both 2015 and 2016 … Still holds UL’s school record for career batting average (.430), one of only two players to hit over .400 for a career and 28 points better than the second-place listing in career average … Slugged .989 in her career, also UL’s all-time best career mark and nearly 200 points higher than the second-place listing … Hit a remarkable .509 as a senior in 2016, the highest batting average in UL history by 62 points … 83 RBI and 167 total bases in 2015 rank third and fourth in school history for a single season … Fifth in NCAA history in home runs in a season (32 in 2015) and third in NCAA history in home runs per game (0.59 in 2015), and in top 25 in NCAA history in career home runs … Ninth in NCAA history in slugging percentage with an .859 mark which includes her first collegiate season at Texas Tech in 2013 – notably, she would be the NCAA’s all-time career leader in slugging percentage (.989, the NCAA all-time leader is Jocelyn Alo of Oklahoma, .987) if only her years at UL were considered … NCAA national home run champion in 2015 as a junior … Has two of the top four home-run seasons in UL history – 32 in 2015 (1^st) and 24 in 2014 (4^th) – and has the top two slugging percentage seasons in school history – 1.130 in 2016 and 1.077 in 2015 … Two-time winner of the James J. Corbett Award as Louisiana’s top female amateur athlete … Was the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year in all three of her UL seasons along with first-team All-Sun Belt pick each year and league Newcomer of the Year in 2014 … Three-time All-Louisiana selection including Newcomer of the Year in 2014 and Hitter of the Year in 2014 and 2016 … Led Cajuns to records of 49-10, 42-12 and 46-9 in her three seasons including a Women’s College World Series berth in 2014, three straight NCAA Regional titles and two other trips to the NCAA Super Regionals … The No. 1 draft pick by the National Pro Fastpitch League after her senior year in 2016 by the Pennsylvania Rebellion and played one year in that league, recording a home run in her first professional at-bat and leading her team in home runs, before serving as a graduate assistant coach for UL in 2018 … Served as a volunteer assistant coach at Mississippi State in 2018-19 and helped lead Bulldogs to NCAA Seattle Regional finals in 2019, before taking a position as assistant coach and hitting coach at Houston in 2020-21 … Coached at Episcopal High in Bellaire, Texas, in 2022 and helped lead team to a state championship.