Makayla Medellin

Photo by: John Fajardo

Position:
OF
Height:
5-4
Class:
Junior
Major:
Psychology
Hometown:
Yorba Linda, Calif.
High School:
Yorba Linda HS
Prev School:
Yorba Linda HS

Long Beach State (2024): A First Team All-Big West selection … Led Long Beach State in all slash line categories, hitting .384, slugging .527 and reaching base at a .421 clip … .384 batting average ranked sixth in single season history at Long Beach State … Walked nine times and had five stolen bases … Tied for the team lead with three home runs and 10 doubles led the squad … Led the Big West with a .461 batting average in league action, slugging .629 … Started all 27 games in Big West play … Played right field before switching to center field following Lilyanna Martinez’ season-ending injury … Singled and scored in the season opener against Nebraska … Went 2-for-3 with a double on the road at Arizona … Missed the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic … Returned to the starting lineup in a big way, hitting a home run in a 3-for-5 day against San Jose State … Started a season-high 12 game-hitting streak with a single against Princeton … 12-game hitting streak tied for 10th all time at Long Beach State … Went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and a pair of home runs at UC Riverside … Was a perfect 3-for-3 with a triple, a walk and a stolen base against CSUN … Went 2-for-2 with two runs scored a double to start the UC San Diego series … Had multiple hits in five games of a seven-game hitting streak, starting with two hits to close out the UC Santa Barbara series … Went 3-for-4 with a double in the second game against Cal Poly, reaching safely in all three games … Went 1-for-3 with an HBP against No. 5 UCLA, scoring Long Beach State’s run in a 2-1 defeat … Had five hits over the first two games of the Hawai’i series … Opened the Cal State Bakersfield series with a 3-for-3 game, scoring a career-high three times … Had two hits in each game of the season-concluding Cal State Fullerton series.

(2023): Chosen as the Big West Freshman Player of the Year after an outstanding first season at Long Beach State … The fourth freshman to earn that honor at Long Beach State … Hit .252 with five doubles, a triple and two home runs … Hit .315 with five walks and just three strikeouts in Big West play as a freshman … Played in 50 games, starting 37 over five different positions … Had a massive debut, hitting a two-run home run in a 6-5 win over Kansas … Doubled against No. 12 Arizona in her second game … Went 1-for-2 with a single against NC State … Closed the week by hitting another home run against Kansas, finishing with three RBI … Named the first Big West Freshman of the Week, the first of four she would win on the year … Went 1-for-3 against San Diego … Set a season high going 3-for-3 with a double against Boston … Went 1-for-4 with a run scored, an RBI and a stolen base against Montana … Won second Big West Freshman of the Week following that tournament … Stole a base in a second straight game at California Baptist … Walked and singled against UC Riverside … Went 1-for-4 with an RBI, a stolen base an a run scored as the DP at CSUN … Returned to the starting lineup at UC San Diego, going 1-for-3 … Hit .500 at UC Santa Barbara while making an emergency switch to second base defensively, making two of three starts in the infield, earning a third Big West Freshman of the Week … Went 2-for-3 in two games, including a 3 RBI game in the finale … Returned to the outfield against Cal Poly, closing the series with a single … Went 2-for-3 with a run scored to start the Hawai’i series .. Hit .333 in the title clinching series against Cal State Fullerton with two RBI while batting third, earning a fourth and final Big West Freshman of the Week award … Went 1-for-3 at No. 6 Stanford to open the NCAA postseason … Drove in Long Beach State’s run with a single in a 2-1 loss to LMU to end the season in the NCAA Regionals.

High School: A four-year letterwinner in softball as an outfielder at Yorba Linda High School … A first-team all-league selection … Played club with Batbusters … Earned a scholar-athlete award and was on the Honor Roll all four years of High School.

Major: Psychology

Career Highs:
At Bats: 5, vs. San Jose State (3/1/24)
Hits: 3, many times
Runs: 3, vs. Cal State Bakersfield (5/4/24)
RBI: 3, 2x, last at UC Santa Barbara (4/16/23)
Home Runs: 2, at UC Riverside (3/16/24)
Stolen Bases: 1, many times