The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2023 Fall Softball Roster
Roster
Viviana Martinez
- Position:
- SS/2B
- Height:
- 5-6
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Tolleson Union
- Hometown:
- Tolleson, Ariz.
- Major:
- Applied Movement Science
Career Accolades
- 1x Softball American Postseason Top 100 Ranking (No. 53 - 2024)
- 1x Softball America Postseason Shortstop Ranking (No. 6 - 2024)
- 1x NFCA All-Central Second Team (2024)
- 1x NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete (2023-24)
- 1x D1Softball All-American Second Team (2024)
- 1x College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District (2024)
- 1x All-Big 12 Second Team (2024)
- 1x All-Big 12 Preseason Team (2024)
- 1x All-Big 12 Freshman Team (2023*)
- 1x Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2024)
*unanimous
2024, Sophomore
D1Softball All-American Second Team ... NFCA All-Central Second Team ... NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete ... CSC Academic All-District ... Academic All-Big 12 First Team ... All-Big 12 Second Team ... All-Big 12 Preseason Team ... one of four Longhorns to turn in 20-or-more (20) games with multiple hits: 11 two-hit, 8 three-hit and 1 four-hit ... her 14 games with multiple runs batted in (RBI) were the fourth most on the team ... posted a 12-game on-base streak, which was the fifth longest streak by a Longhorn player ... hit .424 (56-132) against right-handed pitchers ... posted a .407 (44-108) clip with runners on base ... registered a .406 (13-32) average when leading off an inning ... recorded a .431 (28-65) mark with runners in scoring position ... had a .667 (10-15) average with a runner on third base with less than two outs ... recorded 19 two-out RBI on the season ... was credited with at least one hit in nine of Texas' postseason games that spanned the Big 12 Championship, NCAA Regional, NCAA Super Regional and Women's College World Series (WCWS) ... had her lone multi-home run game (2) on 2/10, when she went 4-for-4 with two home runs, five RBI, four runs scored and one double at nationally-ranked UCLA ... in four consecutive games against Texas Tech (5/3-5/9), went 7-for-13 (.538) with three doubles, two home runs, one walk, seven runs scored and 13 RBI ... recorded a 3-for-3 game with two double, one RBI and one run scored in Texas' 2-1 win against top-ranked Oklahoma (4/6) ... credited with a pair of hits, one walk, one RBI and two runs scored in two official trips to the plate against Florida (6/1) in the second round of the WCWS ... had four three-hit games in six combined NCAA Regional and NCAA Super Regional games ...
2023, Freshman
Burst onto the Forty Acres in dominant fashion by being just one of three softball student-athletes to appear in and start all 61 games while splitting time between second base and shortstop ... a unanimous All-Big 12 Freshman Team selection ... slashed .346/.391/.532 in 188 official plate appearances ... set a then program's record for runs batted in (RBI) in a single season by a first-year student-athlete (52) ... finished the season as one of just three Longhorns to total 100-or-more (100) total bases ... of her 65 hits on the season, 22 were extra base knocks: 14 doubles, three triples and five home runs ... led the Longhorns with 126 defensive assists, which were the fifth most by a student-athlete in the program's single-season history ... credited with three sacrifice flies and three sacrifice hits ... scored 33 runs to go with six stolen bases ... her 52 RBI on the season were the sixth most by a softball student-athlete in program history ... her 14 doubles were tied for the 10th most in a single season in program history ... began her collegiate softball career by going 6-for-6 across Texas' first three games of the season ... ended the season tied for the team lead with 21 multiple hit games: 17 two-hit, four three-hit ... led the Longhorns with 14 multiple RBI contests: nine two-RBI, three 3-RBI, one 5-RBI, one 6-RBI ... was one of five different Longhorns with a double-digit on-base streak (10) ... one of four different Texas softball student-athletes with a double-digit hitting streak (10) ... set a season-high for RBI in a single game with six in a 2-for-4 performance against Sam Houston (5/3) ... hit a solo home run against Oklahoma in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Game (5/13) ... connected for a solo home run in a 2-for-3 performance against the Sooners in Norman (4/1) ... drove in five runs in a 3-for-3 outing against Virginia Tech (2/25) ... was credited with two doubles and three RBI in a 2-for-2 game against Seton Hall (5/19) in her collegiate softball postseason debut in the NCAA Austin Regional ... became the first student-athlete to be credited with a triple off Tennessee's Ashley Rogers in a 2-for-3 game in her NCAA Super Regional debut (5/26) ... was credited with her first career collegiate softball hit with a two-out, run-scoring single against Missouri (2/10) in her first career collegiate softball plate appearance ... her first extra base hit - a double - occurred against Lamar (2/15) before hitting her first triple three days later against Omaha (2/18) ... the following weekend, connected for her first career collegiate home run against Virginia Tech (2/25) ... drew back-to-back extra inning international walks off Alabama's Montana Fouts (3/11) ... went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI during her first game against Fouts (3/10) ... hit .941 (16-17) with a runner at third and less than two outs ... finished the season with 20 two-out RBI ... batted .433 (29-67) with runners in scoring position ... finished the season with a successful advancing runners average of .584 (66-113) ... concluded her first collegiate softball season with a .445 (15-33) average when leading off an inning ...
International
Represented USA Softball in 2023 Japan All-Star Series ...
Travel Ball
Played for the club program Arizona Storm National-Mathis … was named a FloSoftball.com “Rising Star" ... was part of a 14-under Colorado Sparkler Champion and was chosen as a 2021 PGF All-American Team Player for the 2022 class … during the 2020-21 club campaign, she batted at a .454 clip with 94 hits, 78 runs, 19 doubles, seven triples, 15 home runs and 85 runs batted in (RBI) ...
High School
Ranked as the No. 1 infielder and No. 3 overall in Extra Inning Softball’s Class of 2022 Player Rankings as well as No. 7 overall in Softball America’s 2022 Top 100 Recruiting Rankings … was tabbed by NCAA.com as one of its “Top 55 Freshman to Know” entering the 2023 campaign … wasted no time making an impression as a freshman back in 2019 by helping lead her squad to the state playoffs for the first time in 20 years … along the way, earned 2019 Southwest Region Player of the Year and first-team all-conference honors after hitting .612 with 52 hits, 51 runs scored, 25 extra-base hits, including 15 home runs, 20 steals and 44 runs batted in (RBI) … was also named a honorable mention selection for The Arizona Republic’s 2021 All-Arizona Softball Team ...
Personal
Daughter of Victor and Sabrina Martinez ... has three siblings, John (Tre), Visaury (V) and Victor (VJ) ... her father, Victor, played baseball at Northeast Community College (Mount Pleasant, Texas) from 1992-94, at Henderson State University (Little Rock, Ark.) from 1994-95 and as part of the Seattle Mariners (MLB) minor league system from 1995-2000 … her brother, John (Tre), played football from 2012-16 at Adams State University in Alamosa, Colo. … chose Texas from a list of schools that included Oregon, Arizona State, Washington, Arizona, Ole Miss, Grand Canyon and Stanford … played on a 14U flag football team for two years that won back-to-back national titles ...
