O’Grady Earns All-MW Second Team
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Junior shortstop Cameryn O’Grady has been selected to the Mountain West All-Conference Second Team as announced by the conference on Wednesday.
The selection marks the first in O’Grady’s career and comes after a solid offensive conference season for the Lobo.
O’Grady started in all 53 games on the season, the only UNM player to start every game, and led the Lobos in several statistical categories on the season and in Mountain West play.
In Mountain West games, O’Grady tallied 20 hits, of which six were doubles and three went for home runs. The Orange, Calif., native led the Lobos in hits and doubles, as well as on-base percentage with .474, 15 walks and 35 total bases in a team-high 78 total plate appearances. The shortstop accounted for a team-high 13 runs scored and drove in 11 RBI, which tied for the second highest on the team. O’Grady hit .328 in MW competition with a slugging percentage of .574.
The Lobo recorded four multiple hit games and two multiple RBI games and reached base for a team-high 20-straight games starting with the conference opener against San Diego State on March 15 that spanned until May 5 versus San José State.
O’Grady was perfect at the plate in two games during conference play, going 3-for-3 on March 16 at SDSU, registering four RBI, tying a career high, on a two-run home run and a two-run single as well as drawing a walk. Against MW champion Colorado State on March 24, O’Grady was 2-for-2 at the plate with two doubles and one run-batted-in, also reaching on a walk. The two doubles against the Rams tied a career high for the junior.
In the field, led the team with 43 assists and two fielding double plays, while also recording 28 putouts.
During O’Grady’s last two years at UNM, the shortstop has been consistent in her production at the plate. In both seasons, O’Grady led the team in MW games in runs scored, doubles and walks, and in both seasons O’Grady has been second in RBI and third in batting average.
However, this season O’Grady has had her best conference season as a Lobo, improving in her batting average slugging percentage, on-base percentage, total hits and doubles and has reduced her number of strikeouts.
On the season, O’Grady led the team with a .348 batting average, a .603 slugging percentage and a .474 on-base percentage. In addition, the shortstop had team highs in hits (49), runs scored (32), walks (31), doubles (16), total bases (85) and was second on the team in RBI (26), home runs (six) and hit-by-pitches (three). Her 16 doubles ties for fourth all-time in doubles in a single season, while she also tied for eighth all-time in on-base percentage in a single season and tied for seventh all-time for walks in a single season. It was the second year that O’Grady led the Lobos in doubles and runs scored.