2024 Softball Roster
Booe, Sam
Jersey Number 51
Sam Booe
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- New Palestine
- Hometown:
- New Palestine, Ind.
Bio
As a senior (2025):
As a junior (2024):
As a sophomore (2023):
As a freshman (2022):
High School/Travel:Â
Personal:Â
- Appeared in 30 games (5 starts), with a 4-3 record and 2 saves
- Logged 64.2 innings, striking out 57 and holding a .353 opponent average
- Recorded a season-high 7 strikeouts against MTSU (2/7)
- Named All-ACC Academic Team
- Named NFCA Scholar Athlete
As a junior (2024):
- Tallied three wins and two saves in 22 appearances
- Stood second on the team with 50 strikeouts in 46.2 innings of work
- Earned the victory in the 6-3 win over No. 22/21 Clemson after surrendering one earned run on four hits and striking out four in three innings of relief.
- College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District selection
- Named to All-ACC Academic Team and Honor Roll
As a sophomore (2023):
- Posted a 5-0 record and a 2.74 ERA in 16 appearances
- Delivered 39 strikeouts in 38.1 innings of work
- Earned the complete game win, allowing one earned run and scattering three hits while striking out five in five innings to register her first career postseason victory in the 9-1 NCAA Knoxville Regional win over Northern Kentucky (5/21)
- Got the win in the circle, tossing four innings and striking out eight to help the Cardinals clinch the NC State series (3/25)
- Tossed a one-hit shutout in the 10-0 win against Southern (2/11) - in that game, she delivered a career-high nine strikeouts and had a no-hitter going until the fifth inning.
- Named to the CSC Academic All-District team
- Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and ACC Academic Honor Roll
- Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete
As a freshman (2022):
- Made 19 appearances with two starts in the circle
- Registered 30 strikeouts in 37.0 innings of work
- Delivered four strikeouts in 3.0 innings at No. 3/3 Virginia Tech (4/23)
- Made her first career start at NC State (4/2) - did not get a decision in that game
- Delivered her first collegiate strikeout against Bethune-Cookman (2/11)
- Has dealt at least one strikeout in each of her appearances
- Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll
- NFCA Scholar Athlete
High School/Travel:Â
- Helped lead New Palestine High School to the 2019 state title
- Four-time all-district selection
- 2021 all-state first team honoree and Miss Softball runner-up
- Three-time all-region selection
- In 2019, keyed her team to a 29-3 overall record as New Palestine became the first school in Indiana High School Athletic Association history to win three state championships (2017-19) and finished the year ranked No. 12 in the nation
- Tossed a two-hit complete game shutout to get the win in the circle in the state championship game
- Earned Hoosier Heritage All-Conference and All-Hancock County honors after finishing the season with an 18-0 record along with a 1.58 ERA and 116 strikeouts
- Played for the Louisville Sluggers Huecker travel teamÂ
- Also competed in swimming/diving, cheerleading and basketball
Personal:Â
- Full name is Samantha Booe
- Birthdate is July 26
- Daughter of Angie and Chris Booe
- Has a brother, Matthew
- Major is exercise science
- Biggest challenge she has had to overcome was the loss of her older brother
- Post college ambition is to be a nurse
- Hobbies include fishing and hanging out with her friends and teammates
Highlights: Louisville SB vs. No. 18 Florida State (Gm. 1)
Thursday, July 11
Highlights: Louisville SB at Boston College
Sunday, May 05
SB: Daisy Hess and Sam Booe Postgame vs. #22/21 Clemson
Saturday, April 27
Highlights: Louisville SB vs. No. 22/21 Clemson (Gm. 2)
Saturday, April 27
