When utility player Kinsey Fiedler announced her commitment to Tennessee on Wednesday night, coach Heather Tarr continued to see her 2024 roster find new homes. She becomes the fourth member of last season’s Washington roster to commit to her next school.
One of the nation’s top five recruits in the 2021 class, Fiedler was named to the All-Pac-12 Freshman Team in 2022 and earned honors as an NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete in 2023, but took a step forward at the plate in her junior year.
While starting all 47 games in 2024, she held a career-best .336 batting average with 7 home runs, 27 runs batted in, and a .984 OPS. Fiedler played all over the diamond defensively, as Tarr did everything she could to keep her bat in the lineup, which could be useful for her new coach, Karen Weekly.
Weekly is no stranger to coaching players who have resided in Seattle. One of the stalwarts of her lineup over the past five seasons was Kiki Milloy, the daughter of Washington legends Lawyer and Claudine Milloy.
The back-to-back SEC regular season champions should be benefit greatly from Fiedler’s arrival, especially if she can replicate last season’s numbers. She finishes her career at Washington with a .283 batting average, 23 home runs, 71 RBI, and a .927 OPS over 150 games on Montlake.
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