#14 Jessica Gibson

HONORS & AWARDS
2021 GHSA Region 7-AAAA All-Region Honorable Mention Outfielder
2021 Catoosa-Walker Dream Team Second Team Outfielder
2020 GHSA Class AAAA State Champion
2020 GHSA Region 7-AAAA Champion
2019 GHSA Class AAAA State Champion
2019 GHSA Region 6-AAAA Champion

JUNIOR SEASON (2021)
Saw action in 27 games...Made 26 starts in right field...Took over the right field spot for Class of 2021 graduateBailey Davis who now plays at East Georgia...Made a difference in her year back from an injury...Was sidelined for a large majority of the 2020 season due to injury...Finished with a .329 (24-for-73) batting average...Added eight doubles, which was good enough to be tied-for-third on the team...Also hit her first career home run in game one of the Sweet Sixteen round of the GHSA Class AAAA State Tournament...She drove in 20 runs on the year...Good enough for the fifth-best mark on the team...Led the team with five hit by pitches...Ranks as the sixth-highest number of hit by pitches in a season in program history...Set game highs and season highs in each offensive statistical category, including a career high three hits in a win against eventual Class AAAA State Champion Central...Scored multiple runs in six different games in 2021...The most recent came in a win against Thomas County Central on Oct. 19...Drove in a run in each of the first three games of the postseason...Earned her first GHSA Region 7-AAAA All-Region honor as a junior...Was named as an honorable mention outfield selection along with fellow outfielder Jenna Ryans.

SOPHOMORE SEASON (2020)
Appeared in two games off the bench during her sophomore season...Sat out a majority of the season
due to an injury...Saw action against LFO (Aug. 20) and Buford (Aug. 22)...Was used as a pinch hitter in both of those contests...Went 0-for-2 with in two plate appearances...Member of a Heritage Generals team that won its third consecutive GHSA Class AAAA State Championship...The Generals also won its ninth overall Region 7-AAAA Championship in 2020.

FRESHMAN SEASON (2019)
Saw action in 25 of 35 games in her first season of high school softball playing alongside her sister (Rachel Gibson, Class of 2021)...Hit .120 (3-for-25) in a limited amount of plate appearances (30)...Added a double and four RBI to her offensive stat line...Recorded hits against Adairsville (Aug. 17) as well as Region 6-AAAA opponents Gilmer (Aug. 29) and Southeast Whitfield (Sep. 17)...Recorded her first high school hit in the Dalton Lady Cat Invitational against Adairsville...Had a good showing in that tournament...Scored two runs after reaching base safely twice against Cedartown in the same tournament...Made 15 starts as a freshman with ten of those coming in left field and five as the designated player...Had her best offensive showing in the aforementioned Aug. 29 game against Gilmer...Finished with a 1-for-3 stat line and hit her first extra-base hit as a high schooler in the form of a double...Also collected her first RBI in that game.