University of South Alabama Athletics

AT TATE HIGH SCHOOL
• Five-year letterwinner and four-year starter in softball at Tate High School in Cantonment, Fla.
• Played at both the catcher and infield positions for the Aggies
• Led Tate to a pair of regional playoff appearances over her final two seasons
• Left holding Tate’s career home run record (29), as well as the single season home run (9) and slugging percentage (.865) marks set during her junior season
• Also left holding the career hits (115) and career RBI (107) marks for the Aggies
• Earned first-team all-area honors as a sophomore and as a junior
• Named Legacy & Legends Softball Elite 100 top prospect
• Posted a .426 batting average with a .519 on-base percentage, while she had 26 RBI and nine home runs as a senior
• Hit a walk-off home run in extra innings of Tate’s “Strikeout Cancer” Game where the program raised over $29,000 for the Cancer Society as a senior
• Recorded a .402 batting average as a junior while hitting nine doubles, a triple, nine home runs, 24 runs scored and posting 34 RBI
• In addition to setting the two single-season marks as a junior, also surpassed the previous career RBI mark that same season
• Hit .414 with seven home runs and 19 RBI as a sophomore
• Of her 29 hits, 16 went for extra bases as she also had nine doubles and scored 22 runs
• Ranked as the 26th-best player Florida entering her senior season
• Was a representative for the FHSAA Leadership Conference for softball and volleyball
• Named the Pensacola News Journal Newcomer of the Year as a freshman after recording a .365 batting average with 28 RBI, 10 doubles and four home runs
• Also lettered two years in volleyball and golf
• Received recruiting interest from Mississippi State, Alabama, as well as fellow Sun Belt members Troy and Georgia Southern
• Played travel ball for eight years with Showstoppers based out of Pensacola, Fla.
• Over the course of her travel ball career, she recorded 118 home runs
• Batted .649 in the Fall of 2024 as she had a 1.405 slugging percentage and nine home runs
• In the summer of 2023, recorded a .508 batting average, a 1.138 slugging percentage and 10 home runs

PERSONAL
• Full name is Kara Grace Wine
• Born in Pensacola, Fla.
• Daughter of Jason and Cindy Wine
• Has an older brother, Charlie
• Voted Senior Class President with a 4.87 GPA
• Majoring in sport management, and also plans to minor in sports medicine