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Jersey Number 27
Reed Butler
- Year:
- Graduate Student
- Position:
- Outfield
- Height:
- 5-9
- Hometown:
- Pomfret, Md.
- High School:
- Maurice J. McDonough
- Major:
- Adult Education/Human Resource Development
As a Graduate (2025):
As a Redshirt Senior (2024):
- NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete
- Preseason All-Sun Belt Team
- 2024-25 Sun Belt Conference Commissioner's List
- Started all 54 games in center field for the Dukes
- Played 150th game of her career against Penn State (3/1)
- Finished career 19th in program history with 157 hits
- Tied her career high in doubles with 10, while hitting four home runs
- Was second on the Dukes with 32 runs batted in
- Stole eight bases, which was a single-season career high
- Notched 12 multi-hit games, with four three-hit efforts
- Totaled eight multi-RBI performances, including driving in four against Fordham (3/8)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
As a Redshirt Senior (2024):
- First Team All-Sun Belt
- Named to Sun Belt Commissioner's List
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Spring 2024)
- Started all 53 games for JMU in center field
- Hit .415, the fourth-highest single-season batting average in school history
- Total of 71 hits is tied for sixth-most in single-season school history
- Scored 53 runs, tied for third-most in school history
- Picked up 23 multi-hit games, including four 3-hit efforts
- Reached base in 29 consecutive games (2/16-4/6)
- Slugged career-high 11 home runs and 10 doubles, good for a slugging percentage of .678 - seventh-highest in the Sun Belt
- On-base percentage of .490 is fourth-highest in school history and was third in Sun Belt
- .988 fielding percentage in 75 chances in center field
- Notched back-to-back three-hit performances against Lehigh and George Mason on Feb. 18
- Went 3-for-3 with two runs scored, a double, and two stolen bases against St. Joseph's on March 10
- 2-for-4 performance at App State (April 20) raised season batting average to .418
- Played in 42 games, starting 30
- Notched five home runs
- Recorded a grand slam vs. Troy (4/16)
- Noted two hits three times, last vs. Texas State (5/6)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2023)
- Played in 36 games, starting 22
- Made her first collegiate start against Connecticut (2/19)
- Recorded her first collegiate hit against Connecticut (2/19)
- Finished with fifteen hits, eight RBI, and eight runs
- Did not play this season
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Spring 2021)
- Recorded a batting average of .250 with two doubles in eight at bats.
- Had her first collegiate hit against Lehigh (3/1/20).
- Recorded a fielding percentage of 1.000 with eight putouts and one double play.
- Had a season high of five put outs against Lehigh (3/1/20).
- Spring '20 CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
- First Team (shortstop) All-Southern MD Athletic Conference in 2017 and 2018
- Received the Most Outstanding Player Award in 2018
- All Southern MD Athletic Conference Honorable Mention
- Played for Virginia Unity 18U
- Born on December 6
- Daughter of Marvin and Carla
- Has two brothers, Gage and Brant
- Principal's Honor Roll
JMU Softball | Dukes Advance to 2025 Sun Belt Title Game
Saturday, May 10
JMU Softball | Recap vs. Texas State
Monday, June 03
JMU Softball | Weiler Orthodontics Invitational Recap
Monday, June 03
JMU Softball | Recap vs. Marshall
Monday, June 03
