If you subscribe to your local newspaper, chances are the sports section does a weekly update of area athletes who now play in college. That happened to Notre Dame pitcher Alexis Holloway, who headlined the latest such feature for The Times of Northwest Indiana by virtue of being from Crown Point, Indiana and the 2017 Gatorade Indiana Softball Player of the Year. The story talks about Holloway’s accomplishments on the field and as an aerospace engineering major at Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. Irish coach Deanna Gumpf is depicted in the story as reveling in her two-time captain’s activities away from the team:
“She is amazing – I mean she built an airplane. What she’s doing is extremely rare. I don’t believe there are many people in the country that can do what she’s done.”
To be fair, Gumpf likely referring to the remote-controlled airplane Holloway is building with her group, but it’s impressive nonetheless.
Holloway, one of four seniors, is 10-6 with a 2.62 ERA and a team-high 87 strikeouts this season. In Sunday’s 5-1 win over Virginia, she threw her team-leading eighth complete game of the season. As a hitter, she is batting .256 with two homers and nine RBIs.