Lexi Kilfoyl first player ever drafted by new professional softball league

STILLWATER Former Cowgirl Lexi Kilfoyl isnt done making history just yet.

On Wednesday night, Kilfoyl made history as the first-ever draft pick in the inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball League Draft.

If you wouldve told me so many years ago that Id be the number one pick for the inaugural season, I wouldve said youre joking, Kilfoyl said.

Its obviously a complete honor and its a privilege to be put up there with such amazing names and get to play for people with such amazing accolades.

Kilfoyl spent last summer competing for another professional softball league, the AU Pro Softball Championship Season, where she led the league with an ERA of 2.23 and 39 strikeouts in 59 innings pitched.

She and the Bandits, who drafted her, will begin competing in the new four-team league during the summer.

The league will compete in six to eight cities this season before assigning each team a permanent home in 2026.

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6 Capitol riot New initiative lets Tulsa teachers get $50,000 toward a Habitat for Humanity home We just really like her ability to get hitters out, and its really that simple, said Bandits head coach Stacy Nuveman-Deniz.

She keeps the ball down, has good velocity and an amazing changeup...

Shes the type of pitcher, in a longer-term, shes a franchise pitcher.

You draft a franchise quarterback when youre an NFL team, so shes a franchise pitcher for the Bandits.

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