The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2025 Softball Roster
Roster
Reese Atwood
- Position:
- C/DP
- Height:
- 6-0
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Tuloso Midway
- Hometown:
- Sandia, Texas
- Major:
- Communication & Leadership
Career Accolades
- 1x USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 50 Watch List (2025)
- 2x USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 25 Finalist (1x - 2024, 1x - 2025)
- 1x USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 3, 10 Finalist (2024)
- 1x Softball America Preseason First Team All-American (2025)
- 1x Softball America Preseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 3 - 2025)
- 1x Softball America National Player of the Year (2024)
- 2x Softball America Postseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 2 - 2024; No. 7 - 2025)
- 1x Softball America Postseason Catcher Ranking (No. 1 - 2024)
- 2x Softball America All-American First Team (1x - 2024, 1x - 2025)
- 4x NFCA DI Player of the Week (3x - 2024, 1x - 2025)
- 1x NFCA Catcher of the Year (2025)
- 2x NFCA All-Central First Team (1x - 2024, 1x - 2025)
- 2x NFCA All-American First Team* (1x - 2024, 1x - 2025)
- 1x NCAA Women's College World Series All-Tournament Team (2025)
- 1x D1Softball Preseason First Team All-American (2025)
- 1x D1Softball Preseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 5 - 2025)
- 1x D1Softball Preseason Catcher Ranking (No. 2 - 2025)
- 2x D1Softball Player of the Week (2x - 2024)
- 1x D1Softball National Player of the Year (2024)
- 2x D1Softball All-American First Team (1x - 2024, 1x - 2025)
- 1x Honda Award for Softball Finalist (2024)
- 1x Big 12 Player of the Year (2024)
- 4x Big 12 Player of the Week (1x - 2023; 3x - 2024)
- 1x All-SEC Preseason Team (2025)
- 1x All-SEC First Team (2025)
- 1x All-SEC Defensive Team - Catcher (2025)
- 1x All-Big 12 First Team (2024)
- 1x All-Big 12 Freshman Team (2023)
- 1x All-Big 12 Second Team (2023)
- 1x Academic All-Big 12 Second Team (2024)
*unanimous
2025, Junior
Women's College World Series All-Tournament Team ... NFCA First Team All-American ... NFCA Catcher of the Year ... D1Softball First Team All-American ... Softball America First Team All-American ... NFCA All-Central First Team ... All-SEC First Team ... All-SEC Defensive Team - Catcher ... USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 25 Finalist ... NFCA Player of the Week (3/11) ... USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 50 Watchlist ... Softball America Preseason First Team All-American ... D1Softball Preseason First Team All-American ... All-SEC Preseason Team ...
2024, Sophomore
USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 3, 10 and 25 Finalist ... NFCA, Softball America, D1Softball First Team All-American ... D1Softball, Softball America National Player of the Year ... three-time NFCA DI Player of the Week ... four-time Big 12 Player of the Week ... two-time D1Softball Player of the Week ... Big 12 Player of the Year ... All-Big 12 First Team ... Academic All-Big 12 Second Team ... Honda Award for Softball Finalist ... set five Texas single-season program records: home runs (23), runs batted in (90), total bases (163), slugging percentage (.862) and sacrifice flies (8) ... led all Texas players in 11 different statistical categories: batting average (.423), games played (65), OPS (1.362), hits (80), home runs (23), RBI (90), total bases (163), slugging percentage (.862), hit by pitches (11), on-base percentage (.500) and sacrifice flies (8) ... opened the season with at least one hit in Texas' first eight games ... drove in 20 runs over the course of the first eight games of the season ... finished the season with a team-high 24 multiple RBI games ... her 21 multiple hit games were the third most by a Longhorn player throughout the season ... her 11-game hitting streak was the second longest by any Texas player ... also had a 16-game on-game base streak that was the fourth longest by any UT player ... batted .480 (59-123) with runners on base ... registered a .452 (19-42) clip when leading off an inning ... drove in 39 runs with two outs ... had a .476 (39-82) batting average with runners in scoring position ... credited with a .800 (20-25) mark with a runner on third and less than two outs ... hit .475 (29-61) with two outs in an inning ... drove in a season-high nine RBI in a 3-for-3, two hour run performance at Texas Tech (5/4) ... had five multi-home run contests, including back-to-back games at Texas Tech (5/4 - 5/5) ... was credited with at least one hit in 49 of Texas' 65 games played ... hit a home run off Stanford pitcher and USA Softball Player of the Year NiJaree Canady in Austin (2/24) ... had a season-high four hits in a 4-for-4 performance against Louisiana (2/25) ... drove in at least one run in 39 Longhorn games ...
2023, Freshman
Appeared in 58 games in her first season on the Forty Acres while drawing a starting assignment on 56 occasions ... All-Big 12 Second Team ... All-Big 12 Freshman Team ... Big 12 Player of the Week (4/25) ... slashed .291/.313/.529 in 172 official plate appearances ... led the Longhorns with 11 home runs to go along with 43 runs batted in (RBI) and 91 total bases ... concluded the season with a .986 fielding percentage in 290 defensive opportunities while splitting time at catcher and first base ... threw out seven would-be base stealers ... of her 50 hits throughout the season, 19 were extra base hits: 11 home runs, eight doubles ... one of five different Longhorns with 10-or-longer on-base streaks (10) ... also one of four Texas softball student-athletes with a hitting streak of at least 10 games (10) ... concluded her freshman campaign with 13 multiple hit games: 11 two-hit, two three-hit ... was the only Longhorn softball student-athlete to have at least one game with 2-, 3-, 4- and 5+ RBI ... hit a team-leading three home runs against conference-only opponents ... hit her first career collegiate home run in a 2-for-3, 5-RBI performance against Illinois (2/12) ... hit a home run in three straight games: Iowa (3/18), South Florida (3/19) and Stephen F. Austin (3/22) ... had at least one hit in 13 games against Big 12 opponents ... had a team-high 22 two-out RBI ... drove in a season-high five RBI against Illinois (2/12) ... had a season-high three hits on two different occasions: Texas Southern (2/26) and at Sam Houston (3/14) ... became first student-athlete in program history with a walk-off hit in three consecutive games (4-16-23 to 4-22-23) ... set program record with at least one RBI in eight consecutive games (4-7-23 to 4-22-23) ...
Travel Ball
A three-time national champion and a Premier Girls Fastpitch All-American with Hotshots Premier … also named to the 2021 Extra Inning Softball All-Summer Team after batting .456 with 47 hits, 13 doubles, nine home runs and 34 runs batted in (RBI) ...
High School
Prepped at Tuloso Midway, where she was rated as the number one (tied) catcher and fifth overall (tied) recruit in the country, according to the Extra Inning Softball’s 2022 Extra Elite 100 player rankings … was named to the SBLive Texas’ First Team All-South Texas squad in 2022 after batting .576 with 39 runs scored, 38 hits, 24 walks, 28 extra-base hits, including 10 home runs, with 43 runs batted in (RBI) and 16 steals while posting a 2.053 slugging percentage … as a junior, posted a .478 batting average with 33 hits, 10 doubles, eight home runs and 29 RBI to go along with an .848 on-base percentage … earned an invitation to participate in the Texas Girls Coaches Association (TGCA) All-Star Softball Game … district offensive most valuable player … two-time all-district first team selection ...
Personal
Daughter of Tammy and Geoff Atwood … has one sibling, Devin … her mother, Tammy, played basketball for Blinn College … says Texas was the first major Division I softball program to show interest and it was always her dream to play for the Longhorns … considers being ranked the fifth overall recruit in the nation as her greatest personal athletic achievement to date …
