The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2022 Softball Roster
Roster
Ashton Maloney
- Position:
- OF
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Freshman
- High School:
- Liberty
- Hometown:
- Liberty, Mo.
- Major:
- Management
Career Accolades
- 1x Softball American Postseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 60 - 2025)
- 1x SEC Player of the Week (1x - 2025)
- 1x SEC Softball All-Tournament Team (2025)
- 1x NFCA All-Central Second Team (2024)
- 1x NFCA All-Central First Team (2025)
- 1x NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete (2023-24)
- 1x D1Softball Preseason Outfield Ranking (No. 24 - 2025)
- 2x College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District (1x - 2024, 1x - 2025)
- 1x All-SEC Second Team (2025)
- 1x All-SEC Defensive Team - Right Field (2025)
- 1x All-Big 12 Second Team (2023)
- 1x All-Big 12 Preseason Team (2024)
- 1x All-Big 12 Freshman Team (2023)
- 1x All-Big 12 First Team (2024)
- 2x Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2023, 2024)
2025, Redshirt Junior
CSC Academic All-District ... NFCA All-Central First Team ... SEC Softball All-Tournament Team ... All-SEC Second Team ... All-SEC Defensive Team - Right Field ... SEC Player of the Week (3/25) ...
2024, Redshirt Sophomore
All-Big 12 Preseason Team ... All-Big 12 First Team ... Academic All-Big 12 First Team ... NFCA All-Central Second Team ... NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete ... CSC Academic All-District ... her .381 (61-160) was the third highest on the team after she appeared in 63 games throughout the season ... hit .410 (32-78) with runners on base ... posted a .455 (30-66) clip when leading off an inning ... had a .692 (9-13) average with runners on third and less than two outs ... credited with a .670 (59-88) success advancing runners rate ... hit .391 (18-46) with runners in scoring position ... five of her 18 runs batted in (RBI) came with two outs ... credited with 12 multiple hit games: 8 two-hit, 2 three-hit, 2 four-hit ... posted two 4-for-4 performances: vs. Baylor (4/14) and vs. Nicholls (4/25) ... one of five Longhorns to have a hitting streak of 10-or-more games: 3/15 vs. BYU to 4/6 vs. Oklahoma ... scored a season-high four runs in a single game on three separate occasions: 2/9 vs. San Diego, 4/14 vs. Baylor, 5/4 vs. Texas Tech and 5/19 vs. Northwestern ... hit one of her three doubles on the season in game two of the Women's College World Series Championship Series against Oklahoma (6/6) ... drew two walks in the same game in three different contests: vs. San Diego (2/9), at Texas Tech (5/4) and vs. Northwestern (5/19) ... credited with nine hits in 14 plate appearances (.642) in four games against Baylor ... had at least one hit in 21 regular season games against Big 12 opponents ... finished the season with a .980 (49 put outs, one outfield assists and one error in 51 chances) fielding percentage in right field ...
2023, Redshirt Freshman
One of just four Texas softball student-athletes to appear in 60-or-more (60) games throughout the 2023 season ... the only Longhorn softball student-athlete to play multiple games at each of the three outfield positions: left field (4), center field (2) and right field (52) ... All-Big 12 Second Team selection ... All-Big 12 Freshman Team honoree ... her 58 hits in 152 official plate appearances were the fourth most on the team ... her .415 on-base percentage was the second-highest percentage among qualified Longhorn batters ... one of seven different Texas softball student-athletes to be credited with at least one sacrifice hit and sacrifice fly ... finished the season with a team-leading .382 batting average ... scored 28 runs and was credited with five stolen bases ... batted .442 (23-52) with two outs on the season ... had a .400 batting average (14-35) when leading off an inning ... also had a .427 (35-82) mark when hitting with the bases empty ... her 17 multiple hit games were the fourth most by a Longhorn in 2023 ... concluded the 2023 campaign with three multiple runs batted in (RBI) games: Tenneessee State (3/3), at UTA (3/8) and Kansas (4/15) ... had a team-leading .372 batting average in conference-only games ... her 16 hits in 18 conference games were the second most by a Longhorn ... finished with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in regular season conference-only games ... had a successful advancing runner rate of .611 in conference-only games ... was credited with her first career collegiate hit during a 2-for-3 performance against Illinois (2/12) ... had a 3-for-4 outing with two doubles and four RBI at UTA (3/8) ... had at least one hit in all three of Texas' games during the Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Championship ... was credited with a pair of hits in three official plate appearances in the conference championship game against Oklahoma (5/13) ... had a run-scoring plate appearance in her first career Super Regional game when the Longhorns played Tennessee in the NCAA Knoxville Super Regional (5/26) ...
2022, Freshman
Redshirted after suffering a knee injury prior to arriving at Texas ...
Was named to the original roster for the USA Softball Under-18 Junior Women’s National Team in June 2021 ...
Travel Ball
As part of Aces Fastpitch, Maloney posted a .527 career batting mark with 107 hits, 69 runs, 18 doubles, six triples, a home run, 30 steals and 50 runs batted in (RBI) while helping her squad to a 2019 IDT Boulder Championship ...
High School
A multiple-time Missouri Class 4 All-State, first-team all-conference, all-district and all-region selection, Maloney was rated at No. 7 (tie) in the Extra Inning Softball Extra Elite 100 rankings (No. 2 overall outfielder) and No. 64 in Softball America’s Top 100 players listing … during her time at Liberty H.S., she batted .536 overall with 224 hits, 182 runs scored, 12 doubles, 18 triples, 13 home runs and 66 steals while posting a 1.280 OPS … her finest season, production-wise, came in 2020 as Maloney hit .567 with program single-season records: 59 hits, 58 runs, nine triples, 12 home runs and a 23-game hitting streak … off the diamond, Maloney played multiple soccer seasons at Liberty, including being part of the 2019 Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Class 4 girls state soccer champions ...
Personal
Daughter of Scott & Jill Maloney ... has one sister, Abigail ... her grandfather (Greg Maloney) played football at both Missouri (1967-69) and Montana (1970-71), her uncle (Brian Maloney) played baseball at Southeast Missouri State (1991-95) and her cousin (Brenner Maloney) played baseball at Missouri (2020-22) … cites winning the 2019 Missouri Class 4 Soccer State Title as her most memorable moment in sports to date … Maloney only started playing softball because her dad told her that if she wanted to play soccer, she had to play both sports, and she grew to love it … was a multiple-time softball and soccer academic all-state selection at Liberty H.S.
