2018 at Gardner-Webb: Was limited to just 19 games due to injury ... Started 11 contests as junior and had 31 at-bats ... Recorded four hits - three singles and one double ... Lone extra base hit came in the season-opener against USC Upstate ... Defensively, she was steady at third base ... Was one of six players with three or less errors (minimum 20 chances) ... Had a .942 fielding percentageÂ
2017 at Gardner-Webb: Hit .255, which was fourth on the squad … Was one of only two players to appear in all 50 contests for the Runnin’ Bulldogs … All 50 of her appearances were starts … Had 137 at-bats and 35 hits … Recorded nine extra-base hits and was tied for first on the team with four home runs … Scored 24 runs, while also batting in 24 … Had a .387 slugging percentage and a .378 on-base percentage.Â
2016 at Gardner-Webb: Played in 45 games … Made 44 starts as the team’s primary third baseman … Batted .186 with 18 hits, two doubles, one home run and 15 RBI … Scored nine runs … Had a pair of hits in four different games on the season … Went 2-for-3 with a home run, two runs scored and two RBI in college debut vs. Hartford (2/19) … Drove in five runs by going 2-for-3 with a double vs. Hampton (2/21) … Also had an RBI double vs. Howard (2/26).
High School/Travel: Four-time All-Conference selection at Rosewood High School under head coach Shay Campbell…Two-time First team All-District selection…Four-time All-Conference selection…Also plays for the Carolina Flames and Lady Blues under head coaches Stephen White and Eddie Oldham…led her travel team the Shockers-Herring captured the Top Gun National Championship…Also earned All-Conference honors in volleyball, basketball, and track…Four-time scholar athlete…Voted Homecoming Queen as a senior and served as marshall at graduation as a junior.
Personal: Born July 10, 1997 in Greenville, N.C…full name is Callie Corena Thornton…has two siblings (Zachary & Skylar)…daughter of Rodney and Lari Thornton…Intends to major in biology.Â
