Aly Kaneshiro Season 2024

Career Accolades

• Rawlings Gold Glove Award (catcher) (2023)
• NFCA All-West Region third team (2023)
• Pac-12 All-Defensive Team (2023)
• Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (April 12, 2021)
• Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2023)

As a Junior (2023)

• Rawlings Gold Glove Award (catcher)
• NFCA All-West Region third team
• Pac-12 All-Defensive Team
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Recognized with a Rawlings Gold Glove Award, presented by the NFCA to the top nine defensive players at their respective positions from all divisions
• Started all 62 games at catcher
  • One of five Cardinal to start all 62 games
• Led the team with seven home runs and 40 RBI
• Ranked second in total bases (81) and third in hits (47), while batting .255 and slugging .440
• Threw out 14 of 25 baserunners to rank tied for 21st in the nation in runners caught stealing
• Caught for a pitching staff which led the Pac-12 and ranked third nationally with a 1.53 ERA and seventh with 21 shutouts

As a Sophomore (2022)

• Started 60 games while making 61 appearances, primarily at catcher but also at designated player
• Batted .240 on the season with five doubles and four home runs to drive in 20 runs
• Homered against BYU
• Hit a home run in the win over San Jose State
• Drove in three runs and scored twice against Mount St. Mary’s adding a home run
  • Caught Molly Millar’s no-hitter against Mount St. Mary’s on the same day
• Was 2-for-2 with the game-winning home run in the win over Oregon
• Doubled in the win over Alabama to drive in the winning runs to clinch the Tuscaloosa Regional for the Cardinal, batting in three runs while going 3-for-4 at the plate

As a Freshman (2021)

• Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (April 12)
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Posted a strong freshman season, making 30 starts in her debut campaign – 26 at designated player
• Batted .265/.314/.459 in 98 at-bats, scoring 10 runs and driving in 15 runs
• Was tied for second on the team with four home runs, adding seven doubles – good for the team lead alongside Eleni Spirakis
• Became the first Stanford freshman to homer twice in a game since 2010, doing so on the road at No. 13/14 Arizona State, driving in six runs on the day (April 10)
• Hit her first career home run against Arizona (April 2)
• Also homered against South Dakota State in the NCAA Tournament (May 21)

Prior to Stanford

• 2020 graduate of William S. Hart High School in Newhall, Calif.
• Two-time team captain (2019-20)
• Helped her team to a CIF Southern Section runner-up finish as a freshman (2017)
• Three-time All-Foothill League (2017-19)
• Three-time All-Santa Clarita (2017-19)
• LA Daily News Incomer of the Year (2017)
• Hart High School's CIF Female Scholar Athlete of the Year (2020)
• Cal-High Sports All State Honor Roll (2020)
• Cal-High Sports First-Team Catchers (2020)
• Also competed in basketball where she garnered All-Foothill League and All-Santa Clarita honors

Club Competition

• Competed for SoCal Choppers beginning at age 12
• Premier Girls Fastpitch Western Region All-America (2020)

Personal

• Daughter of Cathy and Lance Kaneshiro
• Has two brothers, Colby and Ryan
  • Brother, Colby, played baseball at Point Loma Nazaren University
  • Brother, Ryan, played basketball at Occidental College
• Cousin, Keston Hiura, played baseball at UC Irvine and currently plays for the Milwaukee Brewers
• “Tribe Leader” in high school who was in charge of the school’s student sections and school spirit at all sporting events