Wetumpka’s Mya Holt received many accolades for her stellar junior season, but none were larger than winning the 2022-2023 Gatorade Alabama Softball Player of the Year.
Wetumpka’s star pitcher and outfielder earned the honor after leading the Indians to the AHSAA Class 6A championship, the second in program history.
Holt is the only player from Wetumpka to ever win the honor and only the second from Elmore County.
The Gatorade Player of the Year award, which recognizes athletic excellence, academic achievement and exemplary character development on and off the field, has distinguished Holt as the best high school softball player in Alabama.
Off the field, Holt is a member of the National Honor Society and has volunteered with the Montgomery Food Bank, Read Across America and Salvation Army and as part of tornado relief efforts. In the classroom, she maintains a 4.0 GPA.
On the field, she is signed to play at Troy University and is ranked as the nation’s No. 50-overall 2024 prospect by Extra Innings.
During her stellar junior campaign, Holt primarily pitched and also played outfield. In the circle, she finished the year with a 37-4 overall record with an impressive 0.74 ERA and 223 strikeouts.
She was equally as good at the plate as she batted .512 with 22 home runs, 20 doubles, 4 triples and 96 RBIs. Her 96 RBIs was the most of any player in the country and her 22 home runs broke her own single-season school record from the year prior.
Behind her arm and bat, Wetumpka won a state-best 54 games.
She not only won Gatorade Player of the Year, but she was named the Elmore County Softball Player of the Year for the second-consecutive season while also earning All-State honors.
She was named Class 6A’s Player and Pitcher of the Year by the Alabama Sports Writers Association.
