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Ann Shelton is considered by far one of the most dominating pitchers in Jacksonville State’s softball history. Despite playing only two years, she holds the school career strikeout record with 635 in only 418 innings in the circle. As a senior, she set the single-season wins record by winning 28 games and also set the single-season record for strikeouts with 335 while posting a microscopic 0.71 earned run average, also a school record and fourth nationally. Her 10.3 strikeouts per seven innings ranked second nationally. She pitched the Gamecocks to a 46-11 mark, including a 13-3 Atlantic Sun Record, as Jacksonville State earned a berth in the NCAA Regionals in the school’s first year in Division I. She was named the Atlantic Sun Player of the Year, first-team All-A-Sun and the Most Valuable Player as the Gamecocks won the A-Sun Conference Tournament. She also earned NCAA Academic All-America honors and Academic All-District accolades. As a junior in 1995, she set the JSU single-season strikeout record with 300, which included a school record 19 strikeouts in seven innings versus Piedmont College. She posted a 0.73 ERA after pitching the team to a 32-16 record in JSU’s final season in Division II. Proving it wasn’t all about defense, her .400 batting average was third best on the team that season.
