#ProHogs

As of June 4, 2025

Bri Ellis – Talons
Danielle Gibson Whorton – Blaze
Mariah Lopez – Talons

Years at Arkansas: 2024-25

Ellis starred at Arkansas from 2024-25 after spending the first two seasons of her collegiate career at Auburn. Over the course of her collegiate career, she appeared in 231 total games and compiled a .332 career batting average, hitting 74 home runs and driving in 215 runs. She finished her career with 194 hits, including 32 doubles and one triple. A standout defender, Ellis recorded a .989 career fielding percentage. She was a three-time All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection, earning First-Team honors in both her junior and senior seasons.  At Arkansas, she was selected to the SEC All-Defensive Team in both seasons. She finished her collegiate career as the NCAA Active Career Leader in home runs (74) while ranking fourth in RBI (215) and seventh in total bases (449). Her 229 consecutive starts were the most nationally among active players at the conclusion of the 2025 season.

Ellis capped her collegiate career with several major honors in 2025, including SEC Player of the Year and USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. She was also named Division I Player of the Year by both D1Softball and Softball America. Additionally, she was a consensus First-Team All-American, receiving recognition from Softball America, D1Softball, and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA). She was named to the NFCA First-Team All-Central Region after hitting a career-best .440 during her senior year, leading Arkansas to the NCAA Super Regionals. Her senior season also included career highs in hits (59), doubles (9), home runs (26), and runs batted in (72). She tied the SEC single-season home run record in 2025 while setting single-season Arkansas records in homers (26), runs scored (68), RBI (72), slugging percentage (1.090) and on-base percentage (.639). Ellis was just the sixth player in NCAA history to post a regular season batting average above .480 and hit 20+ home runs, courtesy of a .487 batting average and 25 home runs

As a junior in 2024, Ellis earned NFCA Second-Team All-America honors after batting .322 with 48 hits, including seven doubles and 14 home runs. She led Arkansas with 47 RBI, 36 runs scored and 97 total bases while posting a .651 slugging percentage and a .444 on-base percentage. That season, she posted 11 multi-hit games and had a three-hit performance against South Alabama on March 9. She also had a nine-game hitting streak from March 3 to March 18.

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Years at Arkansas: 2019-2022

Gibson Whorton was a four-year letter winner at Arkansas after spending her freshman season at Arizona State. She appeared in a total of 248 games, including 189 at Arkansas, and had a career batting average of .366 with 60 home runs and 220 runs batted in. Gibson finished her Arkansas career as the Razorbacks’ career leader with 180 runs batted in. She belted 10 or more home runs in four of her five seasons, including a career-best 20 home runs as a redshirt senior. Gibson led the Razorbacks to back-to-back Southeastern Conference titles in 2021 and 2022. She earned First-Team NFCA All-America honors in 2022 after claiming Second-Team distinction in 2021. Gibson was also a member of the 2022 All-SEC First Team and a Top-10 finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award. She was a Second-Team CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree in 2022 and a two-time SEC All-Defensive Team pick. Gibson was a 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year nominee.

She led the Razorbacks in batting average (.445), hits (81), doubles (14), home runs (20), and runs batted in (70) during the 2022 campaign. Gibson led the SEC in runs batted in and total bases while ranking second in hits. She was also one of five players in the circuit to hit 20 or more home runs. As a redshirt junior, Gibson posted a .355 batting average and claimed a spot on the All-SEC Second Team. She started all 25 games during the COVID-19 shortened season and hit .295 with 23 hits and 14 RBI. Gibson garnered NFCA All-Region Third Team distinction as a sophomore. She became the second NCAA Division I softball player to hit for the home run cycle, including the first player to do it in a four-inning span, when she blasted four home runs against SIU-Edwardsville on February 23, 2019. Gibson also became the sixth player in NCAA Division I softball history to hit four home runs in a single game. She finished her sophomore season as the Razorbacks’ leader with a .640 slugging percentage, 12 home runs, and 110 total bases.

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Years at Arkansas: 2024-Present (Graduate Assistant)

Mariah Lopez joined the Arkansas Razorbacks as a graduate assistant in August 2024, following a standout collegiate playing career.

Lopez earned NFCA All-America and All-PAC 12 honors while pitching at Utah (2021-24), helping lead the Utes to a College World Series appearance in 2023.

During her four years in Salt Lake City, Lopez collected a list of accolades too numerous to mention, including putting together a 2023 campaign in which she finished in the top three in the Pac-12 with 23 wins and 206 strikeouts, was named first-team all-conference and all-region, won the Pac-12 Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player award and earned a spot on the NFCA All-American Third-Team.

Lopez followed up her spectacular 2023 season with a senior year worthy of First-Team All-Pac-12 and First-Team All-Pacific Region honors. Her 22 victories tied for the league lead, her 203 strikeouts placed her second in the conference, and she racked up more innings pitched and complete games than anybody in the Pac-12. The Arizona native became the first Ute to win 20 games in back-to-back seasons in over a decade and finished third in school history in career strikeouts with 582.

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#ProHogs Games Only

Date	Time (CT)	Matchup	TV
June 7	6:30 p.m.	Volts vs. Blaze	MLB Network
June 7	2 p.m.	Talons vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 8	1 p.m.	Talons vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 8	4 p.m.	Volts vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 9	6 p.m.	Volts vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 10	7 p.m.	Talons vs. Bandits	ESPN2
June 13	5:30 p.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 14	11 a.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	ESPNU
June 15	1 p.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 17	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Talons	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 17	8:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 18	8:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 18	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Talons	ESPNU
June 20	7:30 p.m.	Talons vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 20	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Blaze	ESPNU
June 21	4 p.m.	Talons vs. Volts	ESPNU
June 21	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Blaze	MLB Network
June 22	4 p.m.	Bandits vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 22	6 p.m.	Talons vs. Volts	ESPNU
June 23	5:30 p.m.	Bandits vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
June 23	7:30 p.m.	Talons vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 7	8:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Talons	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 8	6 p.m.	Volts vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 8	3:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 9	10:30 a.m.	Blaze vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 9	1 p.m.	Volts vs. Talons	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 11	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 11	9 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 12	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Talons	MLB Network
July 12	8 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 13	3 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 13	Noon	Bandits vs. Talons	ESPN2
July 16	6 p.m.	Blaze vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 17	8:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Talons	MLB Network
July 18	8 p.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 19	5 p.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 22	6 p.m.	Volts vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 22	7:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 23	6 p.m.	Volts vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 23	7:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 26	TBA	Championship Series	ESPN2
July 27	TBA	Championship Series	ESPN2
July 28	TBA	Championship Series	ESPN2