Upcoming Event: Softball versus North Carolina on February 6, 2026 at 5 p.m.
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Jersey Number 8
Bella Henzler
- Year:
- Redshirt Junior
- Position:
- Catcher
- Height:
- 5-4
- Hometown:
- Allison Park, Pa.
- High School:
- Hampton
- Major:
- Sports and Recreation Management
As a Junior (2025):
As a Sophomore (2024):
- NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete
- Preseason All-Sun Belt Team
- 2024-25 Sun Belt Conference Commissioner's List
- Redshirted due to injury
- President's List (Spring 2025)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
As a Sophomore (2024):
- First Team All-Sun Belt
- Named to Sun Belt Commissioner's List
- President's List (Spring 2024)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Spring 2024)
- CSC Academic All-District
- Started 51 games behind the plate and designated player
- Picked up 100th hit of career against Southern Miss in the First Round of Sun Belt Championship
- Finished with two or more hits 19 times, including four times with three hits or more
- Hit .347 with 11 home runs and 30 RBI
- 11 long balls was tied for the seventh-most in the Sun Belt
- Finished with 58 total hits, including 10 doubles
- Slugging percentage of .617 was third on JMU
- Collected two or more hits in six of first seven games of the season
- Went 3-for-5 vs. Villanova (Feb.16), which included a home run and career-high four RBI
- Finished 3-for-3 with career-high two home runs against Binghamton (March 10)
- Slugged career-best two doubles against Troy (March 23)
- Started all 47 games at catcher
- Hit seven home runs and six doubles
- Recorded her first collegiate hit as an inside the park home run against Chattanooga (2/10)
- Noted a career-high 12 putouts against NC State (2/26)
- JMU Athletic Director’s Scholar-Athlete (Spring 2023)
- Dean's List (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2023)
- Ranked No. 67 in the 2022 Extra Innings Softball 2022 Extra Elite 100 and No. 36 on the Extra Inning Softball 2022 Catchers
- High school team captain and team MVP for the 2020-2021 season
- Named to the 2021 High School PIAA 2nd Team All-State
- Member of the Stars National 18u team and former member of the New Jersey Intensity 18u and Ohio Outlaws 16u teams
- Majors in Sports Recreation Management
- Daughter of Kurt and Lauren Henzler
- Father Kurt played baseball at Marshall
- Mother Lauren was a member of the cross country and swim teams at John Caroll University
- Aunt Kim Henzler Orr in the softball hall of fame at Kent State
- Raised $80,663.43 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in 2021
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