Alex Mycek

Position:
C
Height:
5-8
Class:
Redshirt Senior
High School:
Polytech HS
Hometown:
Clayton, Del.
Major:
Sport Studies

2017 (Redshirt Junior): Played and started all 56 games as the Pirates’ catcher ... Posted a team second-best .278 batting average while leading the squad in home runs (16), putouts (233) and walks (35) ... Tallied 40 hits, 27 runs scored and 37 RBI ... Led the American Athletic Conference in home runs and walks, was second in slugging percentage (.646), third in RBI, fifth in total bases and ninth in on base percentage (.421) ... On the national scale, ranked 22nd in home runs and 33rd in home runs per game ... Named the Louisville Slugger/NFCA National Player of the Week and AAC Player of the Week March 7 after batting .769 (10-for-13) with 10 hits, seven runs scored, two doubles, six home runs (including a grand slam), 14 RBI, seven walks drawn, a 2.308 slugging percentage and an .850 on base mark in helping lead the Pirates to a 4-1 finish at the Louisville Slugger Invitational in Stockton, Calif. ... Turned in 11 multi-hit and eight multi-RBI performances ... Notched season highs in hits (3) and runs scored (3) against Virginia (Feb. 24) ... Recorded a career-best five RBI versus Portland State (March 3).

2016 (Redshirt Sophomore): Played in 42 games and made 39 starts as one of two primary catchers as well as the designated player ... Hit .196 and drew a team-high 24 walks ... Made just three errors in 194 defensive chances for a .985 fielding percentage ... Ranked second on the squad in putouts (170) ... Tallied a run scored, home run, four RBI and a sacrifice fly in the season-opening 9-1 run-rule win over AAC member Virginia (2/12) at the Kajikawa Classic ... Worked three walks against UC Riverside in the Pirates’ 6-2 victory ... Clubbed her second home run of the opening weekend against Nevada (2/14) ... Notched two hits, a run scored, a home run and two RBI versus Villanova (3/4) ... Scored a pair of runs and drew two walks against Sam Houston State (3/5) ... Tallied two hits and a run scored in the 5-1 victory over IPFW (3/13) in the finale of the Under Armour Invitational ... Picked up a pair of hits in game one of a doubleheader at Radford (3/16) ... Drew a trio of walks in game two of the non-conference doubleheader against Longwood (3/29).

2015 (Sophomore): Did not appear in any contests.

2014 (Freshman): Appeared in 12 games and made three starts … Batted .294 (5-for-17) with two doubles and four RBI … Made her collegiate debut and went 2-for-2 with a double, run scored and three RBI against Drexel (2/16) … Had a pinch-hit RBI single in a 9-1 victory over Delaware (2/23) … Earned her first-career start as the designated player versus Fairfield (2/23) … Made first-career start at catcher and drew a walk in the second game of a doubleheader at FIU (3/29) … Doubled as a pinch hitter in a 12-1 win over Southern Miss (4/6) … Pinch-hit in a 10-2 run-rule win at 15th-ranked Tulsa (4/12) … Pinch-hit in a 6-0 victory over Elon (4/18) … Singled as a pinch hitter in a 7-0 win at Louisiana Tech (4/26).

High School: Lettered four years under head coach Jennifer Bradshaw ... Played club ball for the Virginia Shamrocks under coach Jim Metcalf ... A two-time first team all-state and all-conference selection as a catcher ... Helped Polytech to a 20-2 record and state championship appearance as a senior ... Batted .421 as a senior, .500 as a junior, .361 as a sophomore and .420 as a freshman ... Also lettered three years as a basketball starter and two years in volleyball.