Dakota Kennedy - Softball - Arkansas Razorbacks

#22 Dakota Kennedy

22 | OF | Sr. | 5-8 | L/R | Sacramento, Calif. | Sheldon HS / Arizona

At Arizona
Junior | 2025
Started 44 of Arizona’s 61 games in left field in 2025 while missing 17 games due to injury … Named a third-team NFCA All-American for the second straight season … Picked up NFCA All-West (first team), All-Big 12 (first team), and Big 12 All-Defensive team honors … Led the Wildcats with a .444 batting average and four triples … Recorded career-highs in batting average (.444), on-base percentage (.539), slugging percentage (.689), and OPS (1.228) in 2025 while tallying 60 hits, 10 doubles, four triples, five home runs, 25 RBI, 28 walks, 48 runs scored and seven stolen bases … Posted 19 multi-hit games and five multi-RBI games, highlighted by a career-high six RBI during a 14-6 win over Western Michigan on Feb. 7 …  Registered a 23-game reached-base streak from Feb. 6 to April 6 … Recorded a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage with 74 putouts … Hit a grand slam in Arizona’s first win against Houston on May 2 … Earned CSC Academic All-District and All-America honors.

Sophomore | 2024
Started all 56 games in left field … Named a third-team NFCA All-American … Named NFCA All-West (first team) … Earned spots on the All-Pac-12 first team and the Pac-12 All-Defensive team … Batted .400 with a career-high 68 hits, 10 doubles, 13 home runs, 42 walks, 34 RBI, and 54 runs scored while posting a .521 on-base percentage … Earned the NFCA/Rawlings Gold Glove after finishing the season with a 1.000 fielding percentage in left field and led Arizona’s outfield with 111 putouts … Led Arizona with 42 walks, a .688 slugging percentage, and a .521 on-base percentage … Tied a career high of four hits against Grand Canyon on April 30 … Drove in four runs to tie her career high against New Mexico State (April 9) … Hit two home runs in four games (vs. Northern Colorado (2/11), at NMSU (4/9), vs. GCU (4/30), and vs. Villanova (5/19)) …  Registered a 27-game reached base streak and 13-game hitting streak while collecting 20 multi-hit games and 11 multi-RBI games …

Freshman | 2023
Appeared in 53 games and made 49 starts; 47 in left field, one in center field, and one in right field … Second team NFCA All-West and first team All-Pac-12 … Posted a .356 batting average, .453 on-base percentage and .630 slugging percentage while registering six doubles, two triples, 10 home runs, 35 RBI and nine stolen bases … During conference play, she led Arizona with a .394 batting average, 28 hits, eight home runs, a .775 slugging percentage, a 1.257 OPS, and 18 runs scored, highlighted by a 6-10 showing at the plate in a three-game series against UCLA, which featured a pair of home runs …  Recorded 15 multi-hit games and five multi-RBI games while posting a pair of 10+ game reached-base streaks … Hit two grand slams coming in games against Utah (March 19) and  Georgetown (April 1) … Walked off back-to-back games of the Bear Down Fiesta with a grand slam vs. San Diego and a single against Georgetown … Hit two triples in the same day at the Clearwater Invitational; the first was against Texas A&M and the second was against Mississippi State on Feb. 17 … Helped Arizona upset then-No. 8 Virginia Tech at the Clearwater Invitational with her first career double on Feb. 18.

High School: Prepped at Sheldon High School in Sacramento, Calif., where she was named the SBLive Sac-Joaquin Section Athlete of the Year as a senior in 2022 after batting .465 with 13 home runs, 42 RBI, 14 stolen bases, and 54 runs scored while leading Sheldon to a 7-1 Division I Sac-Joaquin Section Championship … Ranked as the No. 1 center fielder in her class and No. 4 overall player by Extra Inning Softball … Two-time Extra Inning Softball First-Team All-American and a two-time First-Team All-State selection while also earning PGF and MaxPreps All-America honors as a senior.