Jacksonville State University Athletics

JAX STATE CAREER
2024: Started in all 53 games for Jax State in 2024…Leads all Jax State returners with a .306 batting average in 2024…Tallied 11 doubles, five homers and a triple for a .484 slugging percentage…Drove home 19 runners while scoring 23 of her own runs…Walked 23 times while only striking out eight times…Finished 3-for-4 with a solo home run in a 3-2 win over UTEP on March 29 last season…Helped lift the Gamecocks past LA Tech 8-7 with a 2-for-3 showing and a home run on April 12…Was named to the ASUN All-Freshman and ASUN All-Tournament team following her freshman campaign in 2023.

2023: Named to the ASUN All-Freshman Team and later the ASUN All-Tournament Team following the 2023 conference tournament at Stetson…Appeared in 45 games as a redshirt-freshman, making 42 starts in the outfield…made her official debut for Jax State on February 10 against Army, scoring a run…hit .311 her first full season, recording 37 hits, including eight doubles and 23 RBIs…fielded .964 playing alongside a pair of seniors in the outfield for Jax State…hit three homeruns, including her first career grand slam against Austin Peay in the ASUN Tournament on May 10 to help the Gamecocks advance with a 10-4 victory.

2022: Redshirted her first season on campus before undergoing an open-heart operation in the summer of 2022.

HIGH SCHOOL
Played for head coach Al Rauls at Buckhorn High School in New Market, Ala…was named the Most Valuable Player of the of the 2019 AHSAA Class 6A State Tournament after leading the Bucks to the state title…a two-time First Team All-State selection by the Alabama Sports Writers Association…led the Bucks in batting average and was named their Best Defensive Outfielder in three seasons…slected to participate in the North-South All-Star Game…a three-time all-region honoree

PERSONAL
Born on July 22, 2003, in Huntsville, Ala…the daughter of Daren and Shannon Nowakowski…has an older sister, Katelyn, and an older brother, Austin…an honor student at BHS…majoring in business at JSU.