The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2026 Softball Roster
Roster
Kayden Henry
- Position:
- OF
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Dickinson
- Hometown:
- Dickinson, Texas
- Major:
- Applied Movement Science
Career Accolades
- 1x Softball American Postseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 46 - 2025)
- 1x Softball American Preseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 65 - 2025)
- 1x NFCA Division I Freshman of the Year Top 10, 25 Finalist (2024)
- 1x NFCA DI Player of the Week (1x - 2024)
- 1x NFCA All-Central Third Team (2024)
- 1x NFCA All-Central First Team (2025)
- 1x D1Softball Preseason First Team All-American (2025)
- 1x D1Softball Preseason Outfield Ranking (No. 10 - 2025)
- 1x D1Softball Preseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 30 - 2025)
- 1x D1Softball Freshman All-American (2024)
- 1x Big 12 Player of the Week (1x - 2024)
- 1x All-SEC Second Team (2025)
- 1x All-Big 12 Second Team (2024)
- 1x All-Big 12 Freshman Team (2024*)
- 1x Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team (2023-24)
*unanimous
2025, Sophomore
NFCA All-Central First Team ... All-SEC Second Team ... D1Softball Preseason First Team All-American … Softball American Preseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 65 - 2025) … D1Softball Preseason First Team All-American … D1Softball Preseason Outfield Ranking (No. 10) … D1Softball Preseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 30) … Softball American Postseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 46 - 2025) … took the field and started in 64 contests during the season … recorded a stand-out season with .409 batting average (career-best and third-most on team), .553 slugging percentage, and .454 on-base percentage (career-best), logging 225 total bases and 1.007 OPS …recorded a career-best 85 hits (third-most on team) and team-leading 72 runs, adding four home runs and 30 RBI in 208 official plate appearances … started in and played in all 24 SEC conference games … logging .329 batting average, .430 slugging percentage, and .376 on-base percentage … earned 24 total bases with a .806 OPS … swung for 26 hits, scored 24 runs, and added 10 RBI in 79 at-bats … posted a career-best fielding percentage that included 77 catches, 71 putouts, and five assists … registered a team-high two triples in victory over Lamar (2/8) … posted 19 games with two-or-more hits, along with seven 3-or-more hits, and registered a four-hit game against SFA (3/25) ...posted three stolen bases (team-best) in victories over UMass (2/15) and SFA (3/25) totaling 33-for-35 stolen bases … Reached base at least once in 21 consecutive games … tallied nine multi-RBI games … has at least one hit in 10 consecutive contests … hit .455 (5-for-11) and tallied four runs during the WCWS …
2024, Freshman
NFCA Division I Freshman of the Year Top 10, Top 25 Finalist ... NFCA All-Central Third Team ... D1Softball Freshman All-American ... NFCA DI Player of the Week ... Big 12 Player of the Week ... All-Big 12 Freshman Team ... All-Big 12 Second Team ... began her collegiate softball career with at least one hit in her first six consecutive games ... went 2-for-4 with two doubles, three runs batted in (RBI) and one run scored in her collegiate debut in Texas' 16-1, five-inning win against San Diego (2/10) ... credited with five hits in six official plate appearances games against then-No. 2 Tennessee (3-3) and then-No. 9 Stanford (2-3) to go along with two home runs, four RBI and three runs scored in the Longhorns' two games at the Shriners Children's Clearwater Invitational ... had a team-high 28 stolen bases in 31 attempts ... her .379 (72 hits in 190 plate appearances) batting average was the highest by any Longhorn freshman player at the end of the 2024 season ... one of five Texas players with 100-or-more (111) total bases ... her 72 hits were the most by any UT freshman player on the season ... was credited with a team-high 27 multiple hit games: 22 two-hit, five three-hit ... was one of six Texas players to record 10-or-more (11) multiple RBI games ... one of five UT players to register a hitting streak of 10-or-more (10) games ... batted .509 (27-53) when leading off an inning ... 14 of her 36 RBI came with two outs ... hit .421 (8-19) with a runner on third and less than two outs ... finished the season with a team-high .445 (20-44) batting average against left-handed pitchers ... finished the season with a .438 (35-80) batting average with the bases empty, the highest of any Longhorn player with four-or-more official plate appearances ...
Travel Ball
For her club program, Bombers HTX Gold-Smith, she has registered batting averages of .474 (2020-21), .463 (2021-22) and .655 (2022) while helping power her squad to a pair of Colorado Sparkler titles (2019, 2021) a Kansas City World Fastpitch crown (2019) and Alliance Fastpitch (2021, 2022), Colorado Sparkler (2022) and USA Softball All-American (2017) runner-up finishes ... Henry was named the 2022 Super Cup Most Valuable Player (also All-Tournament First Team) and to the 2022 Alliance Fastpitch All-Tournament First Team.
High School
Listed at No. 3 overall in Perfect Game's Top 50 Class of 2023 recruit rankings and No. 5 (tie) in Extra Inning Softball's 2023 Extra Elite 100, Henry has been a multi-sport star in softball and track & field at Dickinson (TX) High School ... a product of Texas City, Texas, she's both a two-time All-District 24-6A (2021, 2022) and all-county selection on the softball diamond ... during her most recent campaign as a junior in 2022, Henry batted .444 overall with 21 runs scored, 28 hits, 31 stolen bases, a 493 on-base percentage and a 1.176 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) ... as a sophomore she hit .500 with 36 runs, 40 hits, 23 steals, eight triples and 17 runs batted in (RBI) ... while as a freshman Henry posted a .521 batting mark with 35 runs, 38 hits, 17 steals, 10 triples and a 1.491 OPS ... on the track, she's been a two-time regional qualifier with personal records of 11.7 in the 100m and 24.3 in the 200m dashes.
