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Jersey Number 9
Kylee Gleason
- Year:
- Graduate Student
- Position:
- Outfield
- Height:
- 5-7
- Hometown:
- Bluffton, S.C.
- High School:
- May River
- Previous:
- South Carolina
- Major:
- Cyber Intelligence
As a Graduate (2025):
As a Senior (2024):
- Named to SBC Championship All-Tournament Team
- 2024-25 Sun Belt Conference Academic Honor Roll
- Appeared in 53 games with 52 starts in left field
- Notched career-highs in hits (53), batting average (.363), runs batted in (11), on-base percentage (.404) and runs scored (24)
- Her .363 batting average and 57 hits ranked second on the Dukes
- Went 3-for-3 against Coastal Carolina on April 26, including picking up her 100th career hit
- She led the team with 14 sacrifice hits which ranks third in a single-season in JMU history
- Scored a career-high three runs scored against Fordham (3/8), while setting another career-high with three runs driven in against Bucknell (2/28)
- In 16 games she recorded two-plus hits, with a team-leading five three-hit contests
- Ended the 2025 season on a season-high seven game hitting streak
- Ranks 43rd all-time in school history with 101 hits as a Duke
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
As a Senior (2024):
- Named to SBC Academic Honor Roll
- Dean's List (Spring 2024)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Spring 2024)
- Did not play due to injury
- Started 40 games in left field
- Recorded a career-high of three hits against Troy (4/14)
- Tallied 38 hits, eight RBI, and seven doubles
- Noted a career-high five putouts against Marshall (4/22) and Troy (4/16)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2022)
- Recorded ten hits, four runs, three RBI
- Played in 18 games, starting 12
- Played in 33 games at the University of South Carolina and hit .400 and had a fielding percentage of .950.
- Posted 12 hits and 11 runs with two RBI and a .419 base percentage
- 2020 Gatorade South Carolina Player of the Year
- Never hit below .483 in high school, including a .638 batting average her senior year
- Stole 36 bases her senior year after swiping 30 her junior season
- HSSR All-State selection in 2018 and 2019
- 2018-19 May River MVP and 2017 May River Offensive Player of the Year
- Daughter of Jeannine and Shaun Gleason
- Has two siblings: Kamryn and Taylor.
- Sister, Taylor played softball at Charleston Southern University and father Shaun played baseball at Northeastern.
- Plans to become a physicians assistant.
JMU Softball | Dukes Advance to 2025 Sun Belt Title Game
Saturday, May 10
JMU Softball | Recap vs. Texas State
Monday, June 03
JMU Softball | Weiler Orthodontics Invitational Recap
Monday, June 03
JMU Softball | Recap vs. Marshall
Monday, June 03
