Kelsey Harshman

2022 Championship Season: Member of 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team who enjoyed the best finish of her three-year AU career … accumulated 1,260 leaderboard points to claim 23rd place in the league standings … also tallied 330 stat points and 120 MVP points … starter in all 15 games who hit .333 with 15 hits, including five doubles, a triple and a home run … collected three consecutive multi-hit games during Week Three while driving in six runs … also hit three doubles and a home run during Week Three … scored a run in six consecutive games from Aug. 7-20 … served as a captain during Week Two. 

2021 Championship Season: Compiled 808 leaderboard points … starter in 14-of-15 games … went 9-for-45 at the plate with a home run and three runs batted in … tallied six walks … went 1-for-1 in stolen base attempts. 

2020 Championship Season: Accumulated 880 leaderboard points during inaugural season … starter in 12-of-14 games … batted .265 with one home run and six runs batted in … also scored four runs and tallied two doubles … hit by a pitch twice … one of 11 players with a sacrifice fly. 

International Experience: Led Team Canada to Bronze medal at 2020 Tokyo Olympics … hit .222 (4-for-18) with three runs scored and two runs batted in … helped Canada earn Bronze medal at 2018 WBSC Women’s Softball World Championship in Chiba, Japan … authored .533 batting average with five doubles and 10 runs scored at 2019 WBSC Americas Qualifier … joined the Canadian Junior National Team in 2015 and competed at the WBSC World Championship in Oklahoma City … member of Team Canada squad for the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. … authored .385 batting average with five hits, including two doubles, and four runs scored … honored as Canada Softball’s 2022 Home Run Sports Women’s Fast Pitch Athlete of the Year.  

Other Professional Experience: Played for the NPF’s Canadian Wild in 2019, batting .290 with two home runs and eight runs batted in. 

At Wisconsin: Four-year letter winner for the Badgers who started all 208 games during her career from 2015-18 … fashioned .369 career batting average with 22 home runs and 127 runs batted in … also accrued 218 hits, including 40 doubles and two triples, while scoring school-record 180 runs … drew Wisconsin-record 181 walks during her career while being hit by a pitch 18 times … first player in Wisconsin softball history to earn First-Team All-Big Ten Conference honors three times … also became first freshman in program history to earn spot on All-Big Ten First Team in 2015 … two-time NFCA All-Region Second Team selection … three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree … unanimous First-Team All-Big Ten recipient as a senior after leading team with 43 runs, 59 hits and 45 walks … set school record by reaching base safely in 40 consecutive games during senior season … also established Wisconsin single-season records with .569 on-base percentage … owns Badgers’ single-season record after compiling 42 walks in 2015 … stole 18 bases as a freshman to set school rookie mark.