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Jersey Number 5
Makiya Thomas
- Position:
- INF/OF
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Height:
- 5-3
- Hometown:
- Tacoma, Wash.
- High School:
- Washington
- Previous School:
- Central Arizona
Honors
2022 All-Sun Belt First Team
2022 NFCA All-Central Region Second Team
2022 Sun Belt Championship All-Tournament Team
2021 All-Sun Belt Second Team
Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week (April 20, 2021)
2022 (Graduate Student)
2021 (Senior)
2020 (Junior) *Season Ended Early Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic*
Prior to Coastal Carolina
2018 and 2019 at Central Arizona College
2022 All-Sun Belt First Team
2022 NFCA All-Central Region Second Team
2022 Sun Belt Championship All-Tournament Team
2021 All-Sun Belt Second Team
Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week (April 20, 2021)
2022 (Graduate Student)
- Named to the 2022 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Central Region second team
- Was named to the 2022 All-Sun Belt first team
- Earned a spot on the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Softball Championship All-Tournament team
- Played in and started 44 games in center field on the season
- Batted a team and conference-leading .419 on the season
- Also led the team with a .640 slugging percentage on the year
- Was tops on the team in hits (57), doubles (12), runs scored (36), and stolen bases (14)
- Was second on the team in walks (17) and total bases (87)
- Finished the season with a .490 on-base percentage
- Was 14-of-18 in stolen base attempts
- Posted a season-high 14-game hitting streak over the end of the regular season
- Totaled 19 multi-hit games on the season, including a season-high three base hits versus Central Michigan (Feb. 25), at Campbell (April 6), and versus Georgia State (April 24)
- Scored two runs or more in seven games on the year, including a season-high three runs versus Central Michigan and Texas State (March 27)
- Totaled four multi-RBI games during the year, with a season-high three RBIs in the win over the CMU Chippewas
- Recorded back-to-back home runs against ULM (April 15)
- Walked twice and scored two runs in her season debut versus Monmouth (Feb. 24)
- Went 3-for-4 with a home run, three RBIs, three runs scored, and a stolen base in the win over Central Michigan
- Was 1-for-1 with a stolen base in the neutral site win over Tennessee State (March 4)
- Went 2-for-4 with a run scored in the loss to Georgia State (March 5) at Florida
- Hit 1-for-2 with a walk and a run scored versus Florida (March 6)
- Combined to go 5-for-9 with two doubles, three walks, one RBI, one run scored, and two stolen bases in the three-game series with Troy (March 11-13)
- Doubled and scored once on 2-for-3 hitting in the game-two win of the doubleheader with Charleston Southern (March 15)
- Hit safely in all three games at UT Arlington (March 18-20), going 5-for-11 with a home run, two doubles, a walk, three RBIs, and three runs scored in the series
- Was 2-for-4 with a double, three runs scored, and a stolen base in the series finale at Texas State (March 27)
- Went 1-for-3 at the plate with a run scored in both wins of the doubleheader at Winthrop (March 29), swiping one base in game one and two in game two
- Was 3-for-4 with an RBI, a run scored, and two stolen bases in the road win at Campbell (April 6)
- Hit safely in all three games of the three-game series sweep of Georgia State (April 22-24), going 6-for-10 with a home run, two doubles, two RBIs, and five runs scored
- Went 1-for-3 in the midweek loss at Charlotte (April 27)
- Combined to go 5-for-11 with a home run, a double, two RBIs, and two runs scored in the three-game series at nationally-ranked Louisiana (April 29-30)
- Stayed hot at the plate, going 4-for-9 with two walks, two RBIs, and two runs scored in the three-game series sweep of Appalachian State (May 5-6) to end the regular season
- Recorded three doubles in the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Championship, leading the Chants offensively by going 9-for-19 at the plate with an RBI, four runs scored, and three stolen bases
- Had two base hits in four of the five tournament games for the Chants in the conference postseason tournament
2021 (Senior)
- Voted the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week on April 20
- Played in and started all 45 games for the Chanticleers
- Collected 18 multiple-hit games on the season, including five three-hit games
- Ranked in the top 15 of the Sun Belt Conference in doubles (16, fourth), batting average (.380, fifth), hits (60, sixth), stolen bases (14, t-eighth), runs scored (33, t-10th), and on-base percentage (.418, 13th)
- Also ranked 20th in the conference with a .570 slugging percentage
- Led the Chanticleers in eight offensive categories, including batting average (.380), at-bats (158), runs (33), hits (60), doubles (16), total bases (90), RBIs (29), and stolen bases (14)
- Led off in the very first game of the season versus Buffalo (Feb. 20) with a home run
- Hit her second home run of the season in a 7-2 victory over Lipscomb (Feb. 27)
- Drove in two RBIs in back-to-back games against Lipscomb (Feb. 27-28)
- Was 4-for-11 with a double and an RBI in the weekend series versus South Alabama (March 19-21)
- Had a season-high eight-game hitting streak from March 20 at South Alabama until April 9 versus Georgia Southern, where she batted .444 (12-for-27) with four doubles, two walks, and five stolen bases
- Went 4-for-8 with four runs scored in a pair of games at the College of Charleston (April 13)
- Earned SBC Player of the Week honors (April 20), by batting .455 (10-for-22) with seven RBIs, three doubles, and five runs in a five-game stretch against the College of Charleston (April 13) and Georgia State (April 17-18)
2020 (Junior) *Season Ended Early Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic*
- Played in 19 games, starting 18 in the shortened season
- Started 14 games in right field, three as the designated player, and one at second base
- Became the first Chanticleer in school history to lead the Sun Belt Conference in batting average (.463) and on-base percentage (.532)
- Ranked fifth in the Sun Belt with 25 hits
- Had three doubles and a triple, scored 12 runs, and knocked in 12 RBIs
- Had a team-best 11-game hitting streak on the year
- Picked up her first career hit as a Chant versus Virginia Tech (Feb. 7)
- Picked up her first career RBI as a Chant versus Campbell on (Feb. 9)
- Totaled four multi-hit games, including a season-high three hits three times - versus Jacksonville State (Feb. 14), against Seton Hall (Feb. 22), and versus UMBC (Feb. 23)
- Drove in a season-high three RBIs versus Seton Hall (Feb. 21)
Prior to Coastal Carolina
2018 and 2019 at Central Arizona College
- Spent two seasons in the middle infield at Central Arizona College
- Played in 122 games in her two years
- Batted .505 with 12 home runs, 167 runs scored, and 114 RBIs
- Posted a .553 on-base percentage and swiped 67 bases
Saturday, May 17
Friday, May 16
Friday, April 25
Wednesday, April 02
