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2025 Softball Roster

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22 Ava Khoury

  • Position First Base
  • Height 6-2
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Columbia
  • Hometown Columbia, Ill.
  • Club Team R-R

Biography

Has earned two letters (2022, 2023) ... 

Career Highs
Hits - 4, at Wheaton, May 3, 2024 & vs. Saint Benedict, May 17, 2024
RBIs - 6 at North Park, April 30, 2023
Runs Scored - 3 multiple times
Stolen Bases - 1, twice

National Awards
NFCA Rawlings Gold Glove First Base (2024)
NFCA Third Team All-Region (2023)

Conference Awards
CCIW Co-Hitter of the Year (2023)
First Team All-CCIW (2023)
CCIW Hitter of the Week (March 6, 2023, April 3, 2023, April 15, 2024)

Academic Awards
Academic All-CCIW (2023, 2024)
NFCA Scholar Athlete 

2024: Started all 43 games at first base … Became the program’s first NFCA Gold Glove recipient alongside teammate Casey Wissmiller, finishing the year with a 1.000 fielding percentage … Hit .323 with 40 hits in 124 at bats … Tallied seven doubles and three homers, while finishing with 22 RBIs … Led the team with a career-high 22 walks and was plunked a team-high six times … Scored 16 runs …


2023: Started all 43 games at first base … Finished second in Division III with 15 homers, tying the program’s single-season record … Led the team with 40 RBIs … Posted the fifth-highest single season slugging percentage in program history with a .739 clip … Finished with the seventh-most total bases in a season in program history with 99 … Tallied 12 multi-hit games … Recorded 11 games with multiple RBIs … Led the CCIW in slugging percentage, OPS, homers, and RBIs, while ranking third in runs scored, tied for third in doubles, and fourth in hits … 

2022: Started all 42 games for the Titans at first base … Hit .292 for the season with 33 hits in 113 at bats … Cranked out 10 doubles and eight home runs … Walked 17 times and scored 13 runs … Ranked second on the team in homers and RBI (33) … Finished a perfect 2-for-2 in stolen bases … Boasted a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage, the top among all qualifying players in the CCIW … Ranked tied for second in the CCIW in home runs (8), third in RBIs (36), tied for sixth in doubles (10),  seventh in slugging percentage (.633), tied for eighth in walks (17), and ninth in OPS (1.023) … Tallied multiple hits seven times and multiple RBIs 10 times … Posted single-game highs of two hits (seven times), three RBIs (twice), and two doubles (vs. Muskingum, March 19) … Went 2-for-3 with three RBIs, a home run, and a run scored at Lake Forest, March 15 … Recorded IWU’s walk-off sacrifice fly in IWU’s win over Millikin, April 26 …

HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Columbia High School … Four-year letterwinner in softball, as well as a three-year letterwinner in both basketball and volleyball … Named First Team All-Metro by the St. Louis Post Dispatch in 2021 … Named to the Republic Times’ All-Local Team as a senior … Illinois Coaches Association All-State pick in 2021 … First Team All-Cahokia Conference in basketball … Also earned Marine Corps Outstanding Athlete Award and was the Pentzler Award recipient for basketball … IHSA All-State Academic Team honoree … IHSA Senior Athletic awardee in 2021 … 

PERSONAL: Majoring in health promotion and fitness management at Illinois Wesleyan … Brother, Cole, was a member of the IWU men’s basketball team from 2019-21 … Her aunt also attended Illinois Wesleyan … Other interests include volleyball, basketball, lifting, cooking, and baking … 

Statistics

Season:
2025

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 22

    2022Freshman

    First Base
    6'2"
    22
  • 22

    2023Sophomore

    First Base
    6'2"
    22
  • 22

    2024Junior

    First Base
    6'2"
    22
  • 22

    2025Senior

    First Base
    6'2"
    22