Tarleton State University Athletics

Graduate Student Season
Twirled the second perfect game in program history, 18 up and 18 down with five punchouts on Feb. 19 against Texas A&M-Commerce … Led the Texan staff with 39 appearances and started 25 times in Tarleton’s second straight season earning a postseason bid to the National Invitational Softball Championships … Earned a pair of WAC Pitcher of the Week Honors (Feb. 20 and March 20) … Named the Tarleton Student-Athlete of the Month in February … Led the team with 13 wins, 150 innings and 106 strikeouts … Ranked second in the WAC in punchouts … Her 13 wins became the most by a Texan hurler in their Division I era … Tossed 12 complete games and three shutouts … Held opposing hitters to a .278 batting average and owned the lowest ERA on the team (4.20) … Her 39 appearances was the tied-seventh-most in a single season by a Texan and the third best by a Texan in her first year with the program … Registered two saves to tie for 10th all-time in program history and the most in a single season in Tarleton’s Division I era.
 
University of South Dakota
Graduate transfer after a four-year career at South Dakota  ...  Pitched in 39 games, starting 15 during her time at USD  ...  Threw a career-high 77.1 innings as a senior and went 7-5 with a 4.89 ERA and 64 strikeouts  ...  Had a season-high five strikeouts on three occasions in 2022  ...  Earned her first collegiate win against Drexel on Feb. 16, 2019 with 2.2 innings of shutout relief  ...  Dean's List every semester  ...  Summit League Academic Honor Roll  ...  Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence  ...  NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete.
 
Blue Valley High School
Lettered four years in softball for head coach Amy Oestmann  ...  Led her team to a region championship in 2017 and then a league and regional title in 2018 before advancing to the state tournament  ...  Three-time all-conference  ...  All-State  ...  Pitched seven shutouts in 2017 including two no-hitters and averaged 7.6 strikeouts per game ... AP Scholar  ...  Presidential Award for Educational Excellence  ...  Presidential Volunteer Service Award  ...  Honors Biology Award  ...  Principal's Honor Roll for eight semesters  ...  American Scholar Athlete Award  ...  Invited to compete in the Missouri-Kansas All-Star Game  ...  Played select ball for Peppers Gold  ...  
 
Personal
Is a 2018 graduate of Blue Valley HS in Overland Park, KS  ...  Daughter of Angel Garcia and Sandy Henderson  ...  Has a brother, Mitchell, and a sister, Claudia  ...  Pursuing a master of science in kinesiology  ...  Born April 8, 2000.