
Anissa Urtez
Long Beach, California
Helped Team Mexico qualify for the 2020 Olympics.
Playing for Natasha Watley Foundation (opens in new tab)
Personal: Majored in human development and family studies at Utah … childhood dream was to become a professional athlete … dedicated her life to softball and is motivated to work hard every day by her family and her faith … hobbies including hiking, painting and yoga … engaged to Athletes Unlimited Softball athlete Amanda Chidester in 2020.
2022 Championship Season: Third-year performer who secured 1,246 leaderboard points, including 316 stat points … member of Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team for second straight year … started every game and posted .280 batting average with four home runs and nine runs batted in … posted at least one hit in 11-of-15 outings, including three games with two hits … hit safely in seven consecutive games from Aug. 12-26, fashioning a .346 (9-for-26) average with a home run and four runs batted in … opened season by hitting three home runs in first four games, including back-to-back contests to begin Week One … registered back-to-back two-hit performances on Aug. 14 and Aug. 19.
2021 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,354 leaderboard points to finish 14th in the league … tied for third in the league with 160 MVP points … hit .327 while starting all 15 games … tallied one home run with 15 runs batted in … posted league-leading 52 at-bats … compiled 17 hits, good for third in the circuit … tied for first in the league with five doubles … ranked second in Athletes Unlimited with 15 runs batted in … one of eight players to record a triple … eighth in the league with 27 total bases.
2020 Championship Season: Ranked 15th on the inaugural season leaderboard with 1,510 points … finished 10th in the league with 1,190 win points … batted .344 while starting 13-of-14 games … hit one home run with 10 runs batted in … tallied five extra-base hits … tied for the league lead with two triples … tied for second with two sacrifice hits.
International Experience: Helped Team Mexico qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics … hit .300 (6-for-20) in six games in Tokyo, including a pair of two-hit games … also blasted two home runs, including the first in the team’s Olympic history, with four runs batted in … fashioned .368 batting average in seven games at WBSC Softball Americas Qualifier … won Silver medal at 2017 Pan American Games and 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games … represented Mexico at 2018 International Cup, hitting .313 while leading the team in hits.
Other Professional Experience: Played for the NPF’s Scrap Yard Dawgs in 2017 … batted .231 while helping team win Cowles Cup … spent 2019 season with Cleveland Comets and hit .301 in 73 at-bats … played for the Toda Medics in the Japan Diamond League in 2022.
At Utah: Four-year letter winner for the Utes who played in 219 games from 2014-17 … compiled .357 career batting average with 15 home runs and 163 runs batted in … also tallied 236 hits, including 43 doubles and seven triples, while scoring 147 runs … ranked third on Utes’ career doubles and runs batted in lists … three-time All-Pac 12 Conference performer … First-Team All-Pac 12 selection as a junior after leading the league with 12 doubles and ranking sixth in the circuit with 70 hits … paced Pac-12 with 12 sacrifice bunts during sophomore campaign while starting all 55 games … Honorable Mention Pac-12 All-Defensive Team in 2015 after ranking among league leaders with 106 fielding assists … member of 2014 Pac-12 All-Freshman Team … Third-Team NFCA All-Region selection in 2014.
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