2022 Softball Roster
Tayla Evans
- Position:
- IF
- Height:
- 5-3
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Collinsville HS
- Hometown:
- Collinsville, TX
- Pronounced:
- R/R
• 2021 Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll
• 2020 Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll
• 2019 Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll
• 2019 Conference USA All-Freshman Team Selection
2021 (Junior)
Appeared in 49 games for North Texas and made 49 starts at first and third base … Hit .289 with 39 hits, 11 doubles and nine home runs … Drove in 34 runs while scoring 25 … Slugged .600 with a .398 OBP … Drew 18 walks and was 3-for-4 on stolen base attempts … Made 109 putouts with 35 assists and fielded at a .966 mark … Hit her first home run of the season against Lamar on Feb. 21 … Drove in three RBIs two separate times … Missed only one out of the team’s 50 games.
2020 (Sophomore)
Started all 24 of North Texas' games at first base ... Hit .314 at the plate with 22 hits, five doubles and five home runs ... Drove in a team-high 19 runs ... Posted a .629 slugging percentage which was second-best on the team while posting a .395 on-base percentage ... Recorded 132 putouts, which was second-best on the team while posting a .965 fielding percentage ... Had at least one hit in six of the season's final seven games ... Had at least one hit and one RBI in 13 games ... Hit a pair of home runs while driving in three runs in the series-clinching win over UTSA on 3/8 ... Drove in a pair of runs in a 2-for-3 performance against Abilene Christian on 3/1 ... Recorded career hit number 50 at Texas on 2/19 ... Drove in a run in a 1-for-3 performance in the win at No. 8 Louisiana on 2/8 ... Recorded a home run for her first hit of the season against Prairie View A&M on 2/7 ... On March 13, the remainder of the 2020 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
2019 (Freshman)
Appeared in 49 games for North Texas while making 46 starts ... Conference USA All-Freshman selection ... Ranked second on the team by hitting .331 with 42 hits, seven doubles and five home runs ... Drove in 29 runs while slugging at a .504 mark and posting a .430 on-base percentage ... Recorded a team-high 307 putouts while posting a .988 fielding percentage ... Posted the fourth three-hit game of her career with a 3-for-3 performance and an RBI in the regular season finale against Middle Tennessee on 5/5 ... Went 2-for-3 and scored a run at UAB on 4/28 ... Went 2-for-3 with a home run, and three RBI and a run scored against UTSA on 4/20 ... Posted a 2-for-4 performance with a double and an RBI at Western Kentucky on 4/13 ... Went 6-for-7 with a double, four RBI and three runs scored in the series against UTEP 3/16-3/17 ... Hit her first career home run and posted her first multi-home run game while driving in three runs at UT-Arlington on 2/27 ... Picked up her first career hit and RBI against Seton Hall on 2/16 ... Made her collegiate debut against Northern Colorado on 2/8.
High School
Named the District 12-2A Co-Offensive Player of the Year in 2017 and the district's Co-Defensive Player of the Year in 2015
Led the Pirates to the area round of the 2017 UIL state playoffs
Competed for Texas Glory 18U for head coach Junior Torres
