Abbey Cheek (born March 18, 1997) is an American softball player for th
USSSA Florida Pride
of th
Women's Professional Fastpitch League
(WPF) and an Assistant softball coach at Bethune-Cookman University.

Early life

Cheek attended Chapman High School in

Inman, South Carolina Inman is a city in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,665 at the 2020 census, and 2,321 at the 2010 census. Greater Inman is close to the Spartanburg- Greenville-Anderson metroplex. Inman residents have acce ...

Playing career

College

Cheek attended the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ...

where she played for the

Kentucky Wildcats softball The Kentucky Wildcats softball team represents the University of Kentucky in the sport of softball. The Kentucky Wildcats compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Wi ...

team. She is Kentucky softball's career leader in

home runs In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team. A home run i ...

. Cheek led the Wildcats to four consecutive

NCAA Division I softball tournament The NCAA Division I softball tournament is held annually in May/June and features 64 college softball teams in the United States, culminating in the Women's College World Series (WCWS), which is played in Oklahoma City. Tournament play and team ...

appearances from 2016 to 2019, including three appearances in the Super Regionals from 2017 to 2019. During her senior season, she ranked second nationally with 64 walks and was third with a .602 on-base percentage and .908 slugging percentage. As the Wildcats’ first-ever

SEC Player of the Year Southeastern Conference Player of the Year refers to the most outstanding player for the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in a given sport for a given season. For lists of individual sport SEC Players of the Year by year: *Southeastern Conference Bas ...

, Cheek hit .428 with 13 doubles, 20 long balls, 53 RBI, 54 runs scored and posted an OPS of 1.536. Following the season she was named

NFCA National Player of the Year The NFCA National Player of the Year is an award given by Schutt Sports Schutt Sports (trade name of Kranos Corporation) was a United States company that manufactured protective gear for several sports, focusing on American football, baseball, ...

Professional

Cheek was drafted by the

Chicago Bandits The Chicago Bandits were a women's professional softball team based in Rosemont, Illinois. Since the 2005 season, they have played as a member of National Pro Fastpitch (NPF). The Bandits won the 2008 NPF championship, defeating the Washington Gl ...

National Pro Fastpitch National Pro Fastpitch (NPF), formerly the Women's Pro Softball League (WPSL), was a professional women's softball league in the United States. The teams battled for the Cowles Cup. The WPSL was founded in 1997 and folded in 2001; the NPF revive ...

in the third round of the 2019 NPF Draft. During the 2019 season, Cheek was named the NPF Rookie of the Year.

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Kentucky bio
1997 births Softball players from South Carolina Kentucky Wildcats softball players Living people People from Inman, South Carolina Chicago Bandits players 21st-century American women {{US-softball-bio-stub