Sammy Dees Season 2023

Prior to UTSA
Previously attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio and competed during four seasons for the Falcons ... Earned her undergraduate degree in Applied Health Science with a minor in Public Health in Spring 2022 … Missed the entire 2022 season due to injury … Departed BGSU ranked in the program career record book for Sacrifice Flies (10, 1st), Slugging Percentage (.449, 11th), Doubles (28, t-15th) and Batting Average (.302, 18th) … Comes to San Antonio having played in 129 games for the Falcons, recording 113 hits, 28 doubles, 9 home runs, 52 RBI, 60 runs, 240 putouts and 173 assists … In 2021, she started all 50 games at second base for Bowling Green, hitting .275 with nine doubles and four home runs, leading the NCAA with eight sac flies … Named to the 2021 Academic All-MAC Team … During the limited 2020 season, was listed in the NCFA’s “Selected Top Performances” and earned MAC Player of the Week for a five-game stretch in Florida in which she batted .667 with an OBP of .700 and .944 SLG% on four multi-hit games … Also was named to the 2020 Tiger Classic All-Tournament Team … Played in 14 games before the 2020 season’s early end, batting .474, with an on-base pct. of .565 and a slugging pct. of .684 – registering six extra-base hits, including a team-high five doubles and a homer, on top of eight walks … In 2019, started 13 of BGSU's first 15 games at shortstop before missing the final 36 contests due to injury, batting .242 with five runs and five of her eight total hits were doubles … During rookie season at BGSU in 2018, started all 52 games at second base, batting .299 with 13 extra-base hits and 19 RBI … Third on the 2018 team with 67 total bases and ranked fourth for the Falcons with 26 runs scored.
 
High School
Attended Mission Viejo HS in Southern California, playing for coaches Troy Ybarra, Toni Mascarenas and Jay McGowan … Helped the Diablos to four South Coast League championships and a pair of California Interscholastic Federation titles … The team went 27-4-0 in her junior year, winning the CIF Division 2 championship for the second time in three years … Was an Honor Roll student.
 
PERSONAL
Born in Mission Viejo, Calif. and is the daughter of Steve and Angela Dees … Is the second of four children and has as an older brother, Triston, a younger sister, Makailah and a younger brother, Noah … Her sister was a teammate on the Bowling Green squad … Played travel ball for the Orange County Batbusters.