Skylar Wallace

Personal: Wallace is the daughter of Lynn and Kim Wallace and has one brother named Cullen. She also has a dog named Zeke and a cat named Moa. She lists her parents, University of Florida head softball coach Tim Walton, and her travel ball coach Patrick Lewis as people who have made a significant difference in her life. Growing up, she participated in soccer, gymnastics, basketball, and track and field. Her hobbies include shopping, working out, trying new activities and food, creating content, and going to the beach. She also enjoys spending time with friends and family. She says that representing Team USA is a time when she has felt starstruck.

2024 Championship Season: Wallace was one of 15 players selected in the 2024 Athletes Unlimited Pro Softball College Draft. 

International Experience: Wallace was a member of the Elite Team for Team USA who was selected to compete at the 2024 Japan All-Star Series. She led the United States to a gold medal at the 2019 WBSC U-19 Women’s Softball World Cup. She hit .448 (13-for-29) with a home run, six runs batted in, and 19 runs scored. She also fashioned a .310 batting average with two runs batted in and eight runs scored while guiding Team USA to the bronze medal at the 2019 USA Softball International Cup. 

At Florida: Wallace was a three-year letter winner at Florida after spending her first two seasons at Alabama. She played in 284 career games, starting 283 of them, and compiled a .383 career batting average with 289 hits, including 48 doubles and 21 triples. Wallace belted 51 career home runs while driving in 228 runs and scored 307 career runs. She guided Florida to a pair of NCAA Women’s College World Series appearances and collected NFCA All-America honors three times, including back-to-back First Team certificates in 2023 and 2024.

Wallace was a three-time First-Team All-Southeastern Conference performer at Florida and became the first player in Florida history to earn the NFCA Player of the Year commendation after receiving the award in 2023. She also garnered SEC Player of the Year distinction as a redshirt junior and was a four-time NFCA All-Region selection. Over her three years at Florida, Wallace maintained a .406 batting average while starting all 191 games. She hit 41 home runs with 174 runs batted in and tallied 211 hits, including 37 doubles and 17 triples.

As a redshirt senior, Wallace was a Second-Team NFCA All-America performer after leading Florida to an NCAA Women’s College World Series berth. She also collected First-Team All-America distinctions from Softball America and D1Softball. She fashioned a .404 batting average over 69 games with 16 home runs and a career-best 70 runs batted in, and she set a career mark with 18 doubles. Wallace went 37-for-40 in stolen base attempts and was honored as the Most Valuable Player at the 2024 SEC Tournament after hitting .778 (7-for-9) with three home runs and nine runs batted in over three games. She authored a 14-game hitting streak from April 24 to May 24, 2024.

In 2023, Wallace was named a Top 3 Finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year after ranking ninth in NCAA Division I with a school-record .447 batting average. She also set a program single-season record with a nation-leading .980 slugging percentage and ranked second in the country with eight triples. Wallace blasted 19 home runs and added seven doubles and eight triples, reaching base safely in all but one game as a redshirt junior. She became the third player in Florida history to hit three home runs in a game, doing so against Georgia on April 14, 2023, and set a Florida single-game standard with 13 total bases.

During her junior season, Wallace secured Second-Team NFCA All-America notice after finishing second in the nation with a school-record 52 stolen bases. She also matched the program single-season standard by scoring 79 runs, good for third in NCAA Division I. She became the first player in NCAA Division I history to amass 70 hits, 70 runs, 50 runs batted in, and 50 stolen bases in a single season.

At Alabama: Over her two seasons at Alabama, Wallace hit .320 with eight home runs and 50 runs batted in, starting 90 of 91 games with the Crimson Tide. She earned a starting assignment in all 22 games during the COVID-shortened sophomore season, batting .387 with one home run and 18 runs batted in. Wallace also scored 27 runs while drawing 16 walks. She opened her career by starting 68 of 69 games at second base in 2019, earning an SEC All-Freshman Team nod, and fashioned a .429 on-base percentage with 37 walks while going 18-for-18 in stolen base attempts.