University of South Alabama Athletics

AT SOUTH ALABAMA
REDSHIRT-FRESHMAN SEASON (2023)    
• Sun Belt Conference Academic Honor Roll selection
• Appeared in 25 games with five starts
• Batted .200 with six hits a double, a run scored and six RBI, while also drawing four walks
• Scored a run in her first game of the season versus Mississippi Valley State (2/17)
• Had a hit and drove in a pair versus Missouri State (2/18)
• Had a RBI double against Mississippi State (2/24)
• Had back-to-back pinch hits at Auburn (3/3) and versus Bowling Green (3/4)
• Recorded a pinch-hit, two-run base hit at Georgia Southern (4/23)
• Drew a pinch-hit walk at Southern Miss (4/30) in game two of a doubleheader

FRESHMAN SEASON (2022)    
• Sun Belt Conference Academic Honor Roll selection
• Redshirted the season

AT FROSTPROOF MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL    
• Lettered seven seasons in softball at Frostproof Middle Senior High School in Frostproof, Fla.    
• Batted .405 during her prep career and accumulated 83 hits, six home runs, 40 stolen bases and a .518 OBP
• Ended prep career holding the single-season marks in RBI (36), fielding percentage (.997), doubles (12) and batting average (.477)
• Missed final two seasons due to injury    
• Guided Bulldogs to four straight district championships (2016-19), while also being selected as the FCA Student Leader of the Year for the state of Florida in 2019    
• Batted .405 during her prep career and accumulated 83 hits, six home runs, 40 stolen bases and a .518 OBP        
• Three-time all-county selection    
• Posted a .477 batting average, a .535 on-base percentage and a .671 slugging percentage, while also earning first-team all-state honors at shortstop as a sophomore    
• Recorded 42 hits in her 88 at-bats, scored 34 runs and drove in 36 
• Also had 11 extra-base hits over the course of the season with five doubles, four triples and a pair of home runs    
• Committed just two errors in her 29 games plate for a .997 fielding percentage    
• As a freshman, batted .387 with 29 hits, two doubles and a triple, while also adding 23 RBI and 13 runs scored        
• Led the county in doubles as an eighth-grader with 12
• Played four years of travel ball for NJ Intensity based in Farmingdale, N.J.    
• Lettered six seasons in soccer and four seasons in volleyball as well setting program record for serving 17 points consecutively.    
• Was also a member of a Dixie Youth Little League Softball State Championship in 2015    

PERSONAL        
• Full name is Shelby Faye Garrett        
• Born in Winter Haven, Fla.
• Daughter of Vince and Beth Garrett    
• Has a younger brother, Brody    
• Great grandfather, Fred Cameron coached football at Ohio State during the 1930’s
• Father played two seasons at Polk State College and grandfather Gary Garrett played at Livingston (now West Alabama and coached collegiately for 25 years        
• Has shown market hogs since she was in third grade
• Majoring in sports management and recreation management