Wichita State Athletics

Club Team: Tulsa Eagles GOLD under head coach Dave Simmons

2013 (Junior)

• Appeared and started in 51 games, hitting .264, driving in 17 runs with 39 hits, 11 doubles and four home runs.

• Ranked second last season in slugging percentage (.419), runs scored (22) and hits (39).

• Ranked third in batting average (.264), on base percentage (.333) and runs batted in (17).

2012 (Sophomore at Oklahoma)

• Appeared in 46 games, starting nine.

• Saw most of her action as a pinch runner for the NCAA Women’s College World Series runner-up Sooners.

• Scored 14 runs including one in the first game of the WCWS championship series against Alabama.

• Batted in two runs on the season including a single RBI against Wichita State on March 9.

• Stole five bases in six attempts.

2011 (Freshman at Oklahoma)

• Saw limited action, starting 25 games in the infield, scoring 10 runs on the year.

• Registered five hits, three of those extra-base hits, drove in 10 runs and drew eight walks on the year with all five hits and 10 runs coming during non-conference play.

• Nine of the 10 RBI and all eight walks were also against those teams.

• Drove in a season-best three runs against Central Arkansas on March 29 with her first career home run.

• Drove in one run on against Iowa State on May 7.

• Went 1-for-5 with a double and two runs scored at the Oklahoma Spring Festival.

• Went 1-for-3 at the Troy Cox Classic with two runs scored, three RBI and two walks.

• Opened the year 1-for-3 with two runs scored at the Kajikawa Classic.

Background 

• Played for the Davenport High School Bulldogs in Davenport, Okla. for head coach Heather Gaylord.

• Earned all-state honors in fastpitch and slowpitch softball.

• Four-time all-conference selection in fastpitch and slowpitch.

• Earned conference most valuable player honors.

• Hit .420 as a senior in fastpitch, scoring 33 runs and driving in 35 on 55 hits.

• Had five home runs and ended her career with a .490 batting average, 197 runs scored, 280 hits and 162 runs driven in.

• Team won the 2008 Oklahoma slowpitch state title.

• Also earned all-conference honors in basketball three years.

• Hit .321 during summer 2010, scoring 18 runs, recorded 34 hits and drove in 15, and had two home runs.

Personal

• Ali Vandever was born April 28, 1992 in Cushing, Okla. to Mike and Annita Vandever.

• Has two sisters, Lindsey and Nikki.

• Majoring in Sociology.

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