2022 Softball Roster
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Kates, Kendall
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Jersey Number 18
Kendall Kates
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Palomar College
- Hometown:
- San Diego, Calif.
Bio
SENIOR (2022): Academic All-Big Ten ... Appeared in 38 games and made 33 starts behind the plate ... Hit .235 overall, but improved to .281 in B1G action which ranked third on the team and second among players with 10+ conference starts ... Finished the season with 19 hits, four of which went for extra bases ... Threw out four baserunners from behind home plate ...
JUNIOR (2021): Academic All-Big Ten ... Started 35 of 36 games, all but one behind the plate ... Hit .221, posting three doubles, a homer, and 11 RBI ... Had a .992 fielding percentage, with just two errors in 237 chances ... Appeared in all six games at the B1G opening weekend in Leesburg, Fla, in doubleheaders against Northwestern, Nebraska, and Iowa, hitting .200 with a double and pair of stolen bases  .. Started all six games in the second Big Ten weekend against Illinois and Minnesota ...  Hit .500 in the Rutgers series (3/26-28), with a double, a walkoff homer in game two, and five RBI ... Led MSU with a .400 average in the Maryland series, with four base hits and an RBI ... Had a pair of base hits and two walks in the Purdue series (4/23-25), with double-digit putouts in three of the four games ... Went 3-for-9 with a double in the final series at Ohio State (5/14-16) ...
SOPHOMORE (2020, at Palomar College):  Team was in first place in the conference standings (16-3 overall, 4-0 Pacific Coast Athletic Conference (PCAC) and was ranked sixth in the state when the season was suspended due to Covid-19 … Appeared in 19 games, where she hit .448 overall with 12 RBI, 10 walks, and just two strikeouts in 70 plate appearances … Owned a .707 slugging percentage and .595 OBP in those 19 games, where she had three doubles, three triples and a pair of homers …
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FRESHMAN (2019, at Palomar College):  Helped the Comets to a 41-7 record and CCCAA State Runner-Up finish, winning the PCAC title … NFCA California Community College All-American … Earned First Team All-PCAC honors and was a second team All-State honoree … Hit .382 on the season (.430 OBP, .551 slugging percentage in 46 games … Smacked 12 doubles, a triple , added three homers and 35 RBI.
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CLUB:  Played club ball for the SoCal Breakers and coach Brant Beddow … Appeared in the Invite-only IDT All-Star Game in both 2017 and 2018 … Participated in the 2017 OnDeck Softball West Coast Elite Camp in November 2018 and also in the June Jamboree in 2017 … Finished ninth at the 2017 PGF Nationals Premier, and the team also took second place at TCS SoCal's Finest the same summer…
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HIGH SCHOOL:  Four-year letterwinner and starter at Mount Carmel High School … As a senior in 2018, Earned Palomar League First Team All-Conference honors and was her team's Defensive Player of the Year … Helped lead her team to a fifth-place finish in the San Diego CIF Playoffs as a junior and a senior … Was a 2018 and 2017 San Diego Union-Tribune All-Academic Team Member … Led her team in homers as a junior … Honorable Mention All-Palomar League as a freshman … Honor Roll Student all four years …
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PERSONAL:  Daughter of Bob and Desiree Kates … Has one sister, Kylie … Planned Kinesiology major at MSU, with plans on obtaining a nursing degree.
JUNIOR (2021): Academic All-Big Ten ... Started 35 of 36 games, all but one behind the plate ... Hit .221, posting three doubles, a homer, and 11 RBI ... Had a .992 fielding percentage, with just two errors in 237 chances ... Appeared in all six games at the B1G opening weekend in Leesburg, Fla, in doubleheaders against Northwestern, Nebraska, and Iowa, hitting .200 with a double and pair of stolen bases  .. Started all six games in the second Big Ten weekend against Illinois and Minnesota ...  Hit .500 in the Rutgers series (3/26-28), with a double, a walkoff homer in game two, and five RBI ... Led MSU with a .400 average in the Maryland series, with four base hits and an RBI ... Had a pair of base hits and two walks in the Purdue series (4/23-25), with double-digit putouts in three of the four games ... Went 3-for-9 with a double in the final series at Ohio State (5/14-16) ...
SOPHOMORE (2020, at Palomar College):  Team was in first place in the conference standings (16-3 overall, 4-0 Pacific Coast Athletic Conference (PCAC) and was ranked sixth in the state when the season was suspended due to Covid-19 … Appeared in 19 games, where she hit .448 overall with 12 RBI, 10 walks, and just two strikeouts in 70 plate appearances … Owned a .707 slugging percentage and .595 OBP in those 19 games, where she had three doubles, three triples and a pair of homers …
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FRESHMAN (2019, at Palomar College):  Helped the Comets to a 41-7 record and CCCAA State Runner-Up finish, winning the PCAC title … NFCA California Community College All-American … Earned First Team All-PCAC honors and was a second team All-State honoree … Hit .382 on the season (.430 OBP, .551 slugging percentage in 46 games … Smacked 12 doubles, a triple , added three homers and 35 RBI.
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CLUB:  Played club ball for the SoCal Breakers and coach Brant Beddow … Appeared in the Invite-only IDT All-Star Game in both 2017 and 2018 … Participated in the 2017 OnDeck Softball West Coast Elite Camp in November 2018 and also in the June Jamboree in 2017 … Finished ninth at the 2017 PGF Nationals Premier, and the team also took second place at TCS SoCal's Finest the same summer…
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HIGH SCHOOL:  Four-year letterwinner and starter at Mount Carmel High School … As a senior in 2018, Earned Palomar League First Team All-Conference honors and was her team's Defensive Player of the Year … Helped lead her team to a fifth-place finish in the San Diego CIF Playoffs as a junior and a senior … Was a 2018 and 2017 San Diego Union-Tribune All-Academic Team Member … Led her team in homers as a junior … Honorable Mention All-Palomar League as a freshman … Honor Roll Student all four years …
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PERSONAL:  Daughter of Bob and Desiree Kates … Has one sister, Kylie … Planned Kinesiology major at MSU, with plans on obtaining a nursing degree.
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