University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
2026 Softball Roster
Jersey Number 17
Sage Hoover
- Position:
- Pitcher
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Edgewood, Texas
- High School:
- Rains HS
- Prev School:
- Texas Tech
2026 Sun Belt Pitcher of the Week (March 24)
Sun Belt Conference Academic Honor Roll (2026)
Sun Belt Conference Academic Honor Roll (2025)
2025 (Junior)
Missed entire season recovering from a preseason injury ... took a redshirt, preserving season of collegiate eligibility.
Prior to Louisiana
Was the 2022 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year at Northwestern State and competed the following season at Texas Tech ... posted double digits in victories, totaling 25 triumphs, and accumulated 100-plus strikeouts, netting 276 punchouts, over the first two seasons of her collegiate career ... impact on the collegiate scene was immediate, leading the conference in strikeouts (175) at a rate of 9.3 per seven innings in claiming Southland Conference Freshman of the Year honors at NSU in 2022 ... had the most strikeouts by a Lady Demons pitcher since 2007 and became the third player in program history to win the award and first since 2002 ... finished collegiate rookie season 11-7 with a 2.56 ERA and a .200 opposing average, the lowest overall mark in the conference ... had 12 appearances with seven or more strikeouts, reaching double figures on six occasions, and threw 11 complete games with the Lady Demons winning nine of those outings ... transferred to Texas Tech for the 2023 season and promptly tallied a team-leading three shutouts and 101 strikeouts over 100.0 innings of work ... pinned opponents to a .218 batting average and had five or more strikeouts in nine contests ... was the Red Raiders most effective pitcher, appearing in 31 games (14 starts) and led the team with a 2.45 ERA and a 14-3 record ... took a redshirt during the 2024 season.
High School
Amassed an impressive 47-2 record with more than 500 strikeouts in three high school seasons ... was named the TSWA Class 3A and East Texas Player of the Year after senior season at Rains (Texas) High School in which she posted a perfect 24-0 record and miniscule 0.32 ERA on the way to a Texas 3A State Championship ... allowed just seven runs in over 130 innings of work and struck out 287 ... Rains team was ranked No. 1 in the state with a 26-1 record during her junior season when COVID-19 ended competition ... played her freshman season at Edgewood before transferring to Rains ... travel teams placed first in the 16u University of Texas Team Camp Championship and USSAA Top Gun Invitational in 2019 and had top three finishes in the 16u Top Club Nationals and TFL Championship ... finished the 2020 18u Inaugural Alliance Cup with a 5-0-1 record in 2020 and were the co-champions of the USSAA American Freedome Invitational.
Personal
Daughter of Valerie and Terry Hoover ... has one older sister who attended Tarleton State ... majoring in psychology and plans to become a psychiatrist ... life’s ambition is to be a benefit to the world in any way she can saying, “What is the point of being here if you don’t help others and the world around you.”
Sun Belt Conference Academic Honor Roll (2026)
Sun Belt Conference Academic Honor Roll (2025)
2025 (Junior)
Missed entire season recovering from a preseason injury ... took a redshirt, preserving season of collegiate eligibility.
Prior to Louisiana
Was the 2022 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year at Northwestern State and competed the following season at Texas Tech ... posted double digits in victories, totaling 25 triumphs, and accumulated 100-plus strikeouts, netting 276 punchouts, over the first two seasons of her collegiate career ... impact on the collegiate scene was immediate, leading the conference in strikeouts (175) at a rate of 9.3 per seven innings in claiming Southland Conference Freshman of the Year honors at NSU in 2022 ... had the most strikeouts by a Lady Demons pitcher since 2007 and became the third player in program history to win the award and first since 2002 ... finished collegiate rookie season 11-7 with a 2.56 ERA and a .200 opposing average, the lowest overall mark in the conference ... had 12 appearances with seven or more strikeouts, reaching double figures on six occasions, and threw 11 complete games with the Lady Demons winning nine of those outings ... transferred to Texas Tech for the 2023 season and promptly tallied a team-leading three shutouts and 101 strikeouts over 100.0 innings of work ... pinned opponents to a .218 batting average and had five or more strikeouts in nine contests ... was the Red Raiders most effective pitcher, appearing in 31 games (14 starts) and led the team with a 2.45 ERA and a 14-3 record ... took a redshirt during the 2024 season.
High School
Amassed an impressive 47-2 record with more than 500 strikeouts in three high school seasons ... was named the TSWA Class 3A and East Texas Player of the Year after senior season at Rains (Texas) High School in which she posted a perfect 24-0 record and miniscule 0.32 ERA on the way to a Texas 3A State Championship ... allowed just seven runs in over 130 innings of work and struck out 287 ... Rains team was ranked No. 1 in the state with a 26-1 record during her junior season when COVID-19 ended competition ... played her freshman season at Edgewood before transferring to Rains ... travel teams placed first in the 16u University of Texas Team Camp Championship and USSAA Top Gun Invitational in 2019 and had top three finishes in the 16u Top Club Nationals and TFL Championship ... finished the 2020 18u Inaugural Alliance Cup with a 5-0-1 record in 2020 and were the co-champions of the USSAA American Freedome Invitational.
Personal
Daughter of Valerie and Terry Hoover ... has one older sister who attended Tarleton State ... majoring in psychology and plans to become a psychiatrist ... life’s ambition is to be a benefit to the world in any way she can saying, “What is the point of being here if you don’t help others and the world around you.”
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