Career Highlights
NFCA All-Central Region Second Team (2025)
SEC Freshman of the Week (Feb. 13, 2023)
SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll (2024)
2025 | Junior
Started 57 games at shortstop … NFCA All-Central Region Second Team … Batted .318 with 50 hits, 10 doubles, three triples, six home runs and 38 RBI with 28 runs scored and 13 walks … Posted a .522 slugging percentage and a .389 on-base percentage … Recorded 13 multi-hit games and eight multi-RBI games … Registered a .966 fielding percentage at shortstop with 70 putouts and 73 assists in 148 chances … Went 1-3 with an RBI, a triple and a run scored in a 23-0 win over Lipscomb (Feb. 7) … Registered two hits in a 2-2 performance with a RBI and a hit by pitch during a win at Louisiana Tech (Feb. 14) … Posted four consecutive two-hit games from Feb. 16-22, highlighted by a 2-3 performance that included a homer, three RBI and a run scored in a win over Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 20) … Hit a run-rule walk-off grand slam during a 13-2 victory over Missouri State (March 2) … Went 2-3 with an RBI and a sacrifice fly in a victory over Ole Miss (March 9) … Smashed a home run in a win over Central Arkansas (March 18) … Had a 2-2 day with three runs scored and a double during a series-clinching win at No. 7 Tennessee (March 23) … Registered back-to-back two hit games during the Hogs’ series at No. 2 Florida, highlighted by a 2-4, two RBI performance that featured a double in a series finale win (April 5-6) … Homered in a series finale win against South Carolina (April 13) … Went 2-3 with an RBI and a run scored during a win over Colorado State (April 18) … Batted .900 (9-10) with a solo HR, three RBI and a walk during the Fayetteville Regional. Set the Arkansas program record for hits in an NCAA Tournament game with four in a 6-5 win over Oklahoma State (May 17). She started the Hogs comeback by smashing a solo homer in the sixth inning and singled before scoring the game’s winning run in the eighth … Tied her own record a day later with another 4-4 performance in a 12-0 Regional Final win over Oklahoma State with four singles, an RBI and two runs scored. She became the first player in program history to register consecutive four-hit games, accomplishing the feat against Oklahoma State in the NCAA Regional (May 18).
2024 | Sophomore
Appeared in nine games while making six starts at shortstop … Started all four games of the Razorback Rumble (March 8-10) … Slashed .214/.313/.357 with three hits, two doubles, two runs scored, a walk and an RBI … Posted a 1.000 fielding percentage with two putouts and eight assists … Registered one multi-hit game … Went 2-3 with a double against South Alabama (March 8) … Laid down a sacrifice bunt during a 7-4 win over Northern Iowa (March 9) … Doubled and scored a run during a 5-0 win over Southeast Missouri State (March 1) … Drove in a run in a 9-0 win over Northern Iowa (March 10).
2023 | Freshman
Played in 56 games with 55 starts at shortstop as a true freshman … Slashed .203/.361/.285 with 27 hits, 24 RBI, 24 runs scored, six doubles and five home runs … Tallied a .942 fielding percentage on 189 total chances … Turned 13 double plays at shortstop … Named SEC Freshman on the Week on Feb. 13 … Made first career start at short in season opener vs. Weber State (Feb. 10) … Recorded first career hit and drew two walks vs. UNLV (Feb. 10) … Compiled first career multi-hit performance after going 2-for-3 with an RBI and one run scored vs. Southern Utah (Feb. 11) … Finished 1-for-2 with an RBI single vs. Weber State (Feb. 11) … Went 3-for-4 with a home run, three RBI and two runs scored vs. Baylor (Feb. 12) … Recorded back-to-back games with a double vs. Louisiana and Indiana (Feb. 18) at the Clearwater Invitational … Went 2-for-2 with an RBI vs. Arizona (Feb. 24) … Launched a solo home run vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (March 2) … Finished 1-for-2 with a two-RBI single at Alabama (March 19) … Went 1-for-2 with an RBI double and scored a run vs. Florida (March 26) … Mashed an RBI single at Kentucky (April 22) … Rocketed a three-run home run in game two at Kentucky (April 22) … Smashed a solo home run at Western Kentucky (April 24) … Recorded a grand slam in series finale at Missouri (May 7) … Singled vs. Alabama in the SEC Tournament in Fayetteville (May 11).
High School: A 2019 state champion at Corning-Painted Post High School … Earned a top 10 overall ranking in Extra Inning Softball’s 2022 Extra Elite 100 … As a high school junior her team won a section championship and she hit .556, reaching base at a .619 clip while totaling 20 hits, six doubles, two triples, four home runs, 16 RBIs and 22 runs scored … Named first team all-state and a two-time Class AA all-star in her career and began playing high school softball as an eighth grader, recording a .426 batting average … Played travel ball for Team NC in summer 2021, posting a .339 batting average with five home runs and 24 RBIs.
Personal: The daughter of Fernando and Audrey Rijo, Atalyia comes from a diamond sports family … Her mother Audrey played Division I softball at UNCW and her dad Fernando pitched 11 seasons in the minor leagues for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos, Milwaukee Brewers and Houston Astros organizations … Her cousin Jose Rijo pitched for 14 seasons in MLB and won the 1990 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds and was named World Series MVP … Became just the second Razorback softball student-athlete from New York.
