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PROVO, Utah BYU softball head coach Gordon Eakin has announced the signing of Olivia Laney, who will join the Cougars for the 2024 season.
Hailing from Charlotte, N.C., Laney is a five-foot-11 left-handed pitcher, who will come to Provo from Legion Collegiate Academy.
Laney Career Highlights
7A state champion at Lakewood Ranch High School Named to the all-state team in 8th-10th grade
Laney joins pitcher Kate Dahle, catcher Abbey Gillespie and pitcher/outfielder Gianna Mares as the four members of BYU’s 2023 recruiting class.
Traditionally, pitching decides high school softball championship games.
The Lakewood Ranch High softball program has learned this lesson in recent years, getting shut out by Winter Springs High 3-0 in the 2019 state championship game and losing 1-0 to Oakleaf High in the state semifinals. Throughout the 2021 season, Mustangs Coach TJ Goelz has preached to his team that the same fate would not befall it this season, thanks to the hard work the team was putting in each day.
Goelz was right. On Saturday, the Mustangs became an exception to the rule.
Lakewood Ranch (30-2) won the Class 7A state championship at Legends Way Ballfields in Clermont, run-ruling previously undefeated Park Vista High (29-1) in six innings, winning 14-4. Lakewood Ranch entered the game ranked No. 4 nationally by USA Today; Park Vista was No. 5. That didn’t matter to the Mustangs offense, which saw eight of its nine regulars get base hits.
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