Emily Vinson

position Outfielder
height 5-6
class Senior
B/T R/R
Hometown Elgin, S.C.
High school Lugoff-Elgin
Previous School Longwood

position Outfielder
height 5-6
class Senior
B/T R/R
Hometown Elgin, S.C.
High school Lugoff-Elgin
Previous School Longwood

Awards:

2023 NFCA’s Rawlings Gold Glove Award Winner (OF)
CSC Academic All-District First Team (2023)
NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2023)
Big South Freshman of the Week (2/14/2022)

Prior to SC:

2024 (Longwood)

Played in all 52 games, starting 50 times … Hit .265 in 147 at-bats … Had two home runs, two triples, and six doubles … Third on the team with 25 RBIs … Scored 23 runs with nine stolen bases … Had a season-high three RBIs twice (Fordham, 3/10; Presbyterian, 3/29) … Stole three bases against Bradford (4/20) … Had nine multi-hit games on the season … Fell a home run shy of hitting for the cycle against UNI (2/23).

2023 (Longwood)

Recipient of the NFCA’s Rawlings Gold Glove Award, given to the nine best defensive players in all of Division-I softball … Recorded a 1.000 fielding percentage from the left field and center field positions … Hit .223 on the season in 50 appearances for the Lancers … Hit walk-off RBI single against Robert Morris (3/5) … Earned NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete honors … Named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District First Team.

2022 (Longwood)

Earned the week one Big South Freshman of the Week award following a seventh inning home run against Fresno State to take the game 8-7 … Appeared in 44 games, started in 23. Sported an overall .200 b/avg, .275 slg%, and a .220 ob% … Vinson had 16 hits from 80 at bats, 19 runs, three doubles, one home run, five RBIs, and nine stolen bases.

HIGH SCHOOL:

Played four years of softball at Lugoff-Elgin while also lettering in golf as a senior … Named All-State in 2021 as a senior while also earning a spot on the North/South All-Star Team while leading her team to the 2021 State Championship … Was the 2021 Conference Player of the year and a 2021 Silver Slugger … Won a 2019 Golden Glove while earning All-Region honors … 2017 was the Rookie of the Year … Hit .537 as a senior with 49 RBI, 12 doubles, 5 triples and a .926 slugging percentage to go with a .567 on-base percentage … Holds her school record for stolen bases in a single season, the female bench press record, the female pro-agility record, the single-season on-base percentage record, the single-season batting average record and the single-season RBI record.