2020 Softball Roster
Roster
Nicky Dawson
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Parkview Baptist
- Prev School:
- LSU
- Hometown:
- Baton Rouge, La.
2020 Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (Fall & Spring)
2020 Baylor Dean's List (Fall & Spring)
2019 All-Big 12 Second Team
2019 Big 12 Commissionerโs Honor Roll (Fall & Spring)
2019 Baylor Invitational All-Tournament Team
2021
Started 19 games before suffering a season-ending injury โฆ Knocked five triples to become Baylorโs all-time leader in career triples with 12 total โฆ Hit .394 with nine multi-hit games and 20 runs scored โฆ Set a personal best with a 4โfor-5 showing at the plate at Louisiana (3/4) โฆ Reached base safely in 18-straight games โฆ Academic All-Big 12 First Team.
2020ย
Recorded a hit in the first three games of the season โฆ Reached base safely in 13-straight games spanning back to 2019 โฆ Hit a career-high two doubles against Western Illinois โฆ Finished one hit shy of her career best with three hits vs. Western Illinois โฆ Sat out 14 games due to injury.
2019
Started all 48 games she played ... Finished second in the team at the plate with a .336 batting average, notching 25 runs and 51 hits with four doubles, two triples and 15 RBIs ... Recorded a .420 on-base percentage and a .388 slugging mark as BUโs leadoff hitter ... 12-for-14 on stolen base attempts and finished the year with a .968 fielding percentage and 87 assists, most among Lady Bear field players ... Had a pair of diving catches at second base against Southern Miss and at Louisiana ... Turned two double plays in Game 2 vs. Texas Tech ... Had four three-hit games on the year (2/8 vs. North Carolina, 2/24 vs. Louisiana, 4/7 at Oklahoma, 4/14 vs. Texas Tech ... Finished the year with a hit in seven of the last eight games ... Started the season with a 26-game reached base streak which ties for fifth all-time in program history ... Finished the season with 10 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games ... Named to the All-Big 12 second team โฆ Big 12 Commissionerโs Honor Roll (Fall & Spring).
2018ย
One of just three Lady Bears to start in and play in all 56 games on the season ... Finsihed third on the team at the plate with a .347 batting average, notching 38 runs and 51 hits with four doubles, four triples and 17 RBIs ... 25-to-23 walk-to-strikeout ratio helped her to a .462 on-base percentage and .429 slugging mark ... 8-for-13 on stolen base attempts and finsihed the year with a .972 fielding percentage and 77 assists, most among the Lady Bear field players ... Had a career outing vs. Liberty (3/10), going 4-for-4 at the plate with four runs scored and six total bases ... First career multi-RBI game came against Charlotte (3/3) ... Finished the season with 11 multi-hit games and four multi-RBI games.
2017 (LSU):
Played in 38 games for the Tigers, starting in 13 contests โฆ Member of the 2017 LSU Womenโs College World Series team โฆ Hit .310 for the fifth-best average on team, with a third-best OBP of .420 โฆ Fifth on team in slugging at .381 โฆ 8-for-9 in stolen base attempts โฆ One of only two Tigers with a positive strikeout-to-walk ratio โฆ Broke up Alabamaโs Alex Osorioโs no-hit bid in the sixth inning (4/7) โฆ First multi-hit game came against Illinois State (3/3), including two runs scored and two stolen bases.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Was a decorated multi-sport prep athlete at Parkview Baptist in Baton Rouge, playing softball for six years under former LSU standout, Ashlee (Ducote) Weems, who played for the Tigers during Glenn Mooreโs tenure โฆ State champion sprinter and state track and field High Point Winner, as well as a district basketball MVP โฆ In softball, was a five-time all-state selection, six time all-district and six-time all-metro selection โฆ Two-time Marucci Louisiana Softball Player of the Year โฆ As a senior, was named a Max Preps National Player of the Year, a FloSoftball Top 30 player, and consensus All-American first team selection โฆ In her senior season, hit .658 with five home runs, 36 RBIs, 65 runs scored, and 58 stolen bases, earning the NFCAโs Golden Shoe award as the nationโs top base stealer ... Holds the Louisiana High School record in steals, hits, extra base hits, total bases and runs scored, while setting the national high school career record for triples with 49 ... Ranked in the Top 10 nationally in high school career steals, extra base hits, total bases, and runs scored ... Third-degree black belt in Taekwondo and an undefeated kick boxer.
PERSONAL:
Daughter of Charles and Kelli Dawson, and Nicole Brown โฆ Father, Charles, was an All-American catcher at Southern Arkansas, playing professionally in the Atlanta Braves organization โฆ Has five siblings: Cody, Jay, Dee, Andrew, and Amy โฆ Health, kinesiology & leisure studies major.
