All-AAC third baseman commits to South Carolina softball
The quartet of Charlotte players joining Ashley Chastain with South Carolina softball is now a quintet.
Former Charlotte third baseman and All-AAC performer Ella Chancey announced a pledge to the Gamecocks on Saturday afternoon.
The rising senior hit .316 this past season with six homers, 38 RBI, 31 runs, eight doubles, and 24 walks, starting all 57 games on her way to all-conference honors.
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Chancey also added eight stolen bases while slugging .515 and led the team with four triples. The Athens, Ga. native had 15 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI games in 2024.
Chancey has accumulated quite a resume in her time with the 49ers, playing in 173 career games, starting all but one of them. She has a career batting average of .297 with 26 home runs and 100 RBI to go along with 18 doubles and a .517 slugging percentage.
She has one year of eligibility left.
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Arianna Rodi, Sam Gress, Lexi Winters, and Kadie Becker — all transfers who played for Chastain at Charlotte — also recently announced commitments to the Gamecocks since Chastain took over the program a few weeks ago.
RHP Nealy Lamb (Charleston Southern) and UTL Quincee Lilio (Oklahoma) have also committed to the program via the portal.
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On Saturday, one of the state’s top high school prospects, Fort Mill (S.C.) Catawba Ridge infielder Audrey Wilson, also announced her pledge to South Carolina.
ICYMI: Softball Insider: Staff hits the ground recruiting
By Wes Mitchell
New South Carolina head coach Ashley Chastain and her staff have hit the ground running so to speak since being hired and there hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that the staff hasn’t been doing some type of recruiting.
That’s been a combination of in-home visits, assistant coaches on the road for eval purposes, and on-campus visits for most of the last couple of weeks.
The next week or so South Carolina will be well-represented as it heads out to Colorado which is home to the biggest summer tournaments of the year on the prospect circuit.
