Dee Dee Caskey - Softball (2024)

2024 (Senior)

• Did not play due to injury.

2023 (Junior):

• Selected as a 2023 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Good Neighbor Award in the Spring season.
• Started in 27 games for the Flames and made 36 appearances throughout the season.
• Her first hit of the season came against Saint Francis in the Buzz Classic back on Feb. 10.
• Went one-for-two against #10 Clemson on Feb. 24.
• She recorded two hits against Illinois State on Apr. 2.
• Earned her last hit of the regular season when she went one-for-three against Drake on May 6.

2022 (Sophom*ore):

• Named to the Horizon League All-Academic Team.
• Played 43 games and made 37 starts primarily in right field.
• Led team in triples (3), sacrifice bunts (7) and stolen bases (5).
• Batted .281 overall and ranked second on the team with slugging percentage .438 and 10 extra bast hits.
• Hit .328 and slugged .525 during conference play. All 5 stolen bases also came in conference play.
• UIC went 4-1 when she scored two runs…collected four multi-hit games and three multi-RBI performances.
• Reached base safely in season’s final four games.
• Produced the teams longest hitting streak of the season, spanning seven games between Butler (April 12) and Detroit Mercy (April 23).
• Named Horizon League Player of the Week after hitting .556 and slugging 1.111 with three extra-base hits, three RBI and three runs scored in a series win at Detroit Mercy (April 22-23).
• Matched career high with three hits, including first home run of season against the Titans (April 23).
• Scored twice to help hand the regular season champions Oakland its first conference loss of the season on April 15.
• Notched two hits, including a triple, and scored twice against DePaul on April 6.
• Had three hits and career-high two doubles against Youngstown State on Mar. 20.
• First hit of the seasons was an RBI infield single at San Diego State on Feb. 12.

2021 (Freshman):

• Horizon League All-Freshman Team and Horizon League All-Tournament Team.
• Played in 48 games, and made 44 starts, all from the outfield.
• Finished the season batting .274 with 29 hits, 28 runs and 12 RBIs. Her 28 runs tied for seventh-most in the Horizon League.
• Put together a .406 slugging percentage and a .304 on-base percentage.
• Led the team with nine sacrifice hits. She also went went 7-for-9 in stolen bases and collected eight extra-base hits made up of four doubles, two triples and two home runs.
• She recorded three multi-hit showings and one multi-RBI showing … batted 1-for-2 and drove in a pair of runs against Northern Kentucky on April 3., She went 2-for-4 with two runs and one RBI at Robert Morris on April 10 and batted 3-for-4 with three runs, one RBI and one home run against Cleveland State on April 16.
• She went 2-for-3 with a double, two runs and one RBI at IUPUI on April 30.
• She scored a pair of runs and drove in a run against Oakland in the first round of the Horizon League Championship on May 13.

High School/ Personal:

• Majoring in Finance.
• Lettered four years in softball and golf and three years in basketball at Bishop Chatard High School.
• She was named Academic All-State Honorable Mention in basketball and golf. She was awarded the MVP award her freshman year in junior varsity basketball and earned the Trojan Toughness Award in basketball and softball and the Trojan Pride Award in golf.
• She was given the Father Higgins Award for excellence in academics and athletics.
• She won the softball Sectional Championship in 2018 and 2019 alongside her teammates, her squad was also the City runner-up in 2017 and 2019.
• She was named All-Circle City Conference in 2018 and 2019. Also, she was named All-City in 2018 and 2019 and earned the Team MVP Award. She led her team in batting average, hits, runs, triples, contact percentage, fielding percentage and OPS in 2018
• She led her squad in RBIs, runs, triples, stolen bases, contact percentage and fielding percentage in 2019. She tallied the most wins (20), triples (7) and RBIs (35) in a single season in 2019. Caskey also set the record for most runs in a single season with 36 in 2018, owns career records in hits (124), triples (9), RBIs (82) and runs scored (90) and was the quickest player to reach 100 hits.
• Daughter of Michael and Kelly Caskey.