Anna Kimbrell

Anna Kimbrell (born October 4, 1990) is a member of the United States women's national baseball team which won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Playing career Kimbrell, a pitcher and catcher, has been affiliated with Team USA women's baseball since 2006. Growing up, she played baseball throughout Little League. She played for Nation Ford High, where she was the first girl to play high school baseball in South Carolina, and later went on to be the first girl to play American Legion baseball in the state. She began playing at age 8 with Rock Hill Little League baseball. With the Piedmont Patriots in 2003, she was the only girl to play in a 64-team tournament in Cooperstown. On July 14, 2016, Kimbrell became the third female player to join the Sonoma Stompers where she joined USWNT teammates Stacy Piagno and Kelsie Whitmore. On July 22, 2016, Kimbrell and Whitmore combined to make history as the first all-female professional battery (baseball) in nearly 70 years.

Softball AK played Division I softball at Samford University before transferring to the University of Alabama at Birmingham from where she graduated in 2013. In her senior season, she was the starting catcher for the UAB Blazers.

Awards and honors Conference USA All-Second Team