The Gwinnett Daily Post’s Co-Softball Player of the Year along with Addie Rackley is Gwinnett County’s all-time hits leader. She is one of the top prospects in the country for the Class of 2026, signed to play at Texas A&M after graduation.
She hit an astounding .648 (59-for-91) at the plate with nearly half of those hits (26) going for extra bases. But the one stat that sticks out is her plate discipline.
Torres did not strike out once her entire senior season.
“Her at-bats this season were more competitive than they’ve been for the last four years,” Seckinger head coach Cameron Crawford said. “And that’s saying a lot considering she hit .535 last year as a junior.”
The staple at the top of the Seckinger lineup did it all, using her tremendous eye to draw walks, her bat-to-ball skills to go the other way and find grass and her speed to beat out bunts and infield hits. She was a run-producing machine, adding 27 stolen bases to her hitting prowess to set the table for the rest of the lineup.
Throw in her elite outfield defense, and she is a player capable of slotting right into the lineup at one of the top softball programs in the country next year.
“She’s an incredible center fielder,” Crawford said. “She gets good reads off the bat, and her softball IQ is really high.”
And sometimes she just took care of the scoring herself, hitting 11 home runs — after hitting 17 as a junior, when she also was the Daily Post Player of the Year. Her favorite of those came in the second round of the state playoffs at Effingham County. After just missing a pitch for a hard-hit out in her first at-bat, she heard some chirping from the opposing dugout and eagerly awaited her opportunity to climb back into the box.
“I was like, ‘I got you next at-bat,’” Torres remembered. “Next at-bat I got a similar pitch, hit it to dead center and it went out.”
When Torres rounded third base and saw Crawford, she showed the other side of her game that compliments her immensely unique talent. Relentless, energetic and contagious fun.
“She comes around third base and acts like she pulls a pin on a grenade and throws it at home plate,” Crawford said. “And when she gets there the whale team goes boom.
“She just has this goofy, silly personality that really complements her drive and her stoic demeanor on the field well.”
By her own admission, Torres learned how to enjoy herself and softball more this year. She knows she can look serious the way Crawford described, but embraced the opportunities to meet new people, be it younger teammates or peers beyond the Seckinger circle with her summer travel team. Her “distinctive laugh” came out more, and all of it led to a memorable season.
“To enjoy every moment and be where my feet are,” Torres said was her biggest change in her senior season. “I’m not as serious as I look. I look very serious and locked in all the time, but I actually am a goofy person. Once you make me smile you’ll realize that I’m not as serious as I look.”
Torres takes it upon herself to keep everyone loose in practice. Crawford says her pretending to be a basketball player dunking on him was almost a daily occurrence, and those little interactions carry over to the dugouts, bus rides and everywhere else Seckinger softball went.
“She is a funny kid with a great sense of humor,” Crawford said. “And I think a lot of people m... Click here to read full article
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