Alumni Spotlight: Carrie Elliott-Hoshour

Nov. 26, 2014

Gamecock History

Four-year letter-winner 1995-98
Member of the first SEC champions in softball (1997)
Has the second-best caught-stealing percentage for a Gamecock catcher in a season (53.6%, 1997)
Two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll

She came to Columbia from Birmingham, Ala, choosing the Gamecocks because of them being the first team in the SEC.
She changed her commitment from Ohio State to become a Gamecock.
Hoshour played with travel-ball teammate Sky Brown at South Carolina.
She described the old field compared to the new stadium as a “recreation park.”
She played in the first years of the SEC and Beckham Field.
Hoshour learned her focus and discipline in life from coach Joyce Compton, who she still has a close relationship with today.
She treated softball as a job and curved everything else in college around it.
She graduated with a degree in journalism but went straight to nursing school after graduation.
She married Chad Hoshour, a baseball player at South Carolina, before her senior season.

After completing nursing school, Elliot-Hoshour became a pediatric ICU nurse.
She recently got certified and is now an Urgent Care Family Nurse Practitioner, working at Colonial.
Her and her husband have been together for 17 years and have three kids, twins Abby & Jackson and a younger daughter, Emily-Kate.
The family has moved back to Sumter, where Chad is a history teacher

Interview conducted by Kristen Struett