Jen Gilstrap

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@RebelsOlsen And sometimes even that doesn’t matter because people just up lies and no bothers to do any actual digging. A good option may be to take all the coaches out of it, rely on the stats, compare against the other teams stats via AI and have AI generate the lists. Unbiased that way.

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@CoachC_OWLS @OliviaAdams2028 @ADButlerOW Wow. Congrats on an amazing season, O. Those are some impressive stats.

[Gianna Gilstrap @GiaGilstrap]

Finished out my Junior year. Loved playing with my girls!!! 🖤💛

Avg - .477
OPS - 1.498
SLG - .955
2B - 13
3B - 1
HR - 9 (School Record)
RBI’s - 45 (School Record)

@sportsinkansas @MaxPreps @KSSCentral @kpreps @KansasPregame @BVTigerSoftball @RebelsOlsen @ShoMcDonald

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@LattemanCharlee @RebelsOlsen @MaxPreps Well deserved!

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@kansasdotcom Yes Kei and Paige!

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@OliviaAdams2028 @CoachC_OWLS @ejonesrockchalk @IggyByrn @KUSoftball @JackNLucysDad @ShoMcDonald @LauraHeberling @GoShockersSB @CoachBredbenner @OmahaSB @coach_heard @Jen_Daro @GopherSoftball @2k10Select @SelectFP09 Proud of you kiddo!

[KCTV5 News @KCTV5]

The best junior college baseball team in the country wasn’t from Texas or Florida – it was from Overland Park, Kansas.

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@TFan1960 @Jason55692414 I can promise that in NO WAY was Allyssa Parker lazy. I know her and that is 1000% not in her DNA. And I am going to bet that the rest are not either. But you just keep typing away on your keyboard.

[Chris Olsen @RebelsOlsen]

Players, you need to hear this. It’s what your coaches want you to know when it's all said and done.

Softball is a cruel teacher.

It will hand you the greatest feeling of your life, then snatch it back before you can hold onto it. A walk-off. A perfect game. A moment where the ball meets the bat and you just know. We let those moments go too soon, traded in the second something goes wrong.

But the lows don’t ask permission. They follow you to the car ride home, to the silence at dinner, to the replay that won’t stop running in your head at 2 a.m. You’ll carry an error longer than you should. You’ll lie awake after a strikeout that didn’t even matter in the final score. You’ll question whether you’re good enough, whether you belong, whether any of it is worth it.

It is. Stay with me.

Here’s the truth: your strikeouts, your errors, your losses don’t define you. They just make you harder to quit on.

What defines you is what you do after. Running back to the dugout fence to cheer for your teammate when your own at-bat is still stinging. The tears on your face after a mistake, because you care that much. Putting in extra reps when no one is keeping score. Sitting when you want to be starting, trusting the process when the reward feels years away, and showing up anyway.

This game will test you in ways most people will never understand. But it gives back. Maybe not on the scoreboard, not always in a trophy or a starting spot, but in the person next to you in the dugout and in the kind of toughness that sneaks up on you one hard season at a time.

Just know: this game loves you back, even when you’re struggling to love it.

And more than anything, your coaches love you. On your worst days. After your worst games. Long after the season ends.

Being you is enough. Failures and all.

Ladies, carry this with you: your coaches will always be your biggest fans, even when we’re no longer coaching you.

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@BVBaseballCoach Congrats Will!

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@RebelsOlsen Attitude and Effort- the only 2 true controllables.

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@kcroossb Atta girl, Meg!!!!

[D1Softball @D1Softball]

Freshman of the Week: Madison Hoffman, Oklahoma State

The redshirt freshman put on a career-best performance in week 13, hitting three home runs and a triple with seven RBIs and four runs scored.

Presented by @MizunoSportsUSA
🔗 https://t.co/p5QVqDGAfe

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@OU_Softball @AllyssaParker @LexiMcDaniel2 Yes Lex and Allyssa!

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@Aces_SoftballKC @rktaylor12 @LineDsoftball @thealliancefp @HFLfastpitch Congratulations, Ryan. Should have been higher…

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@OU_Softball @AllyssaParker YES ALLYSSA!!

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@OU_Softball @LexiMcDaniel2 My Girl!!! Yes Lex!!!

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@OU_Softball @LexiMcDaniel2 She does it again! Go Lex!

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@MSU_Softball Yes ladies!!!!

[Jen Gilstrap @jengilstrap]

@MSU_Softball 🔥🔥🔥