Shelby Gayre

Awards & Honors

• Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team [2017-18]
• 2020 Softball America Second Team All-American

2021 (Redshirt Junior)

• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Dr. Gerald Lage Award recipient
• Appeared in 36 games making 33 starts
• Finished with a .227 average (22-for-97) with two doubles and nine home runs
• Hit a grand slam in the first game of the season against McNeese State (Feb. 12)
• Currently has 29-career home runs to sit tied for sixth on KU’s career list
• Recorded a season-high three hits with two RBI and one run scored at LSU (Feb. 13)
• Finished the season with 25 RBI and 13 runs scored
• Tallied seven multi-RBI games and four multi-hit games

2020 (REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE)*

• 2020 Softball America Second Team All-American
• Appeared in 24 games
• Made 22 starts at catcher, first base and designated player
• Finished with a .393 batting average (24-for-61), 18 runs and 24 hits
• Knocked in a team-high and career-high 11 home runs and 24 RBI
• Finished with a Kansas-high 13 walks
• Ended the season ranked No. 48 in Softball America’s top 100 players of the season poll
• Her 11 home runs ranked her fourth overall in the country and first overall in the Big 12 Conference
• Hit a career-high two home runs against then-No. 20 James Madison (Feb. 15) and Southeastern Louisiana (Feb. 28)
• Recorded eight games with two or more RBI
• Finished with six multi-hit games
• Scored a career-high three runs against Drake (March 6)

2019 (REDSHIRT FRESHMAN)

• 2019 Big 12 All-Academic First Team selection
• Granted medical waiver
• Played in 16 games with 16 starts (all at catcher) before suffering season-ending injury
• At the time of injury, she was the team leader in batting average (.383 | 18-for-47), RBI (11), total bases (27) and home runs (2)
• Registered three multiple-RBI games
• Season-high four hits (4-for-5), five RBI and one home run at Duke (3/2)
• Finished 3-for-3 with three RBI and a walk against UTAH (2/9)
• First home run of the season against Providence (2/16)

2018 (Freshman)

• Displayed her reliability and all-around talent during her freshman season as she quickly adjusted from being a backup catcher to a starting shortstop
• Played in 48 games with 43 starts
• Registered 42 starts at shortstop and one start as the designated player
• Batted for the majority of the season in the fifth spot (19 games) or the seventh spot (16) in the lineup
• Recorded a .273 batting average, .373 on-base percentage and a .500 slugging percentage
• Totaled 35 hits, 31 RBIs, seven home runs, six doubles and a triple
• A staggering 40 percent of her hits were extra-base hits (14 of 35)
• Ranked second on the team in home runs and tied for second in RBIs
• Longest hitting streak of the season lasted five games
• Recorded 10 multi-hit games and co-led Kansas with nine multi-RBI games
• Accounted for two walk-off RBI hits
• Made her collegiate debut as a late-game pinch hitter and grounded out with the bases loaded to drive in her first-career run during KU’s season-opening win over Akron (Feb. 9)
• Made first-career start the next day in a rematch against Akron (Feb. 10) as the designated player
• Her first two career hits were both three-run home runs in pinch-hitting situations against College of Charleston (Feb. 11) and Missouri State (Feb. 18); the latter gave KU the go-ahead 7-6 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning over Missouri State
• Made first start as a shortstop against Stephen F. Austin (Feb. 23) after Sydnee Ramsey suffered a season-ending knee injury against Missouri State (Feb. 18)
• Went 2-for-4 at the plate with four RBIs at Central Arkansas (Feb. 25)
• Recorded a season-high three hits with a home run, three RBIs and two runs scored against Western Illinois (March 15)
• One of five Jayhawks to start in all 18 Big 12 games
• Doubled in her Big 12 debut at Texas (March 23)
• Smacked two doubles and drove in four runs against Colorado State (March 31)
• First-career home run during Big 12 play came in the first game of a doubleheader against Oklahoma State (April 5)
• Went 2-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs, two doubles and one run scored against Iowa State (May 4)

High School / Club

• Four-year letter winner at D’Hanis High School in De’Hanis, Texas
• Played for Firecrackers DFW 18U Gold
• Named district MVP, MaxPreps All-America and Texas Sports Writer’s Association first-team all-state honors during the 2016 season
• Also collected USSSA Select 30 First-Team All-America honors in 2016
• In 2015, she was named to the UIL State All-Tournament team and earned first-team all-district accolades
• Garnered newcomer of the year honors as a freshman in 2014

Personal

• Daughter of Marlisa and Howard Gayre
• Has a brother Travis

*=Shortened Season Due to COVID-19 Outbreak