Biography
2014 (Senior): Southland Conference honorable mention … Southland Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll … Started 48 of 49 games … Batted .344 with a career-season high 13 home runs and a Southland Conference best 50 RBI, 13 of which cam with two outs … Finished the regular season tied for sixth in the league with 36 runs, second with 103 total bases, and fourth with a .656 slugging percentage ... Went 4-for-5 with four runs, five RBI and nine total bases as she ripped two doubles and a two-run home run in an 18-8 win vs. Houston Baptist on April 26 ... Finished series vs. Huskies with seven hits and eight RBI … Produced a .354 batting average, .692 slugging percentage, 19 runs, nine extra-base hits (six home runs) and 24 RBI in 20 Southland Conference games … Ranked third on team with 13 multi-hit games and first with 14 multi-RBI games … .444 batter vs. left-handed pitchers and a .391 hitter with runners in scoring position … Started year with a 3-for-4 game vs. Texas Lutheran with a double, home run and four RBI … Belted home run No. 2 six days later on Feb. 15 vs. Oklahoma Christian … Ripped a bases-clearing double in loss to Sam Houston State at the Texas Shootout hosted by North Texas … Enjoyed stat-padding four-game series at Prairie View A&M, going 8-for- 15 with seven runs, eight RBI and a double … Doubled and homered during a 3-for-5 doubleheader against Hardin-Simmons during a season best seven-game winning streak … Went 4-for-12 in series with Lamar, which included two runs and six RBI on two home runs and a triple … Drove in six runs on four hits – two of which were HR – over final two games of the second Incarnate Word Series on May 3-4.
2013 (Junior): Second Team All-Lone Star Conference … Started all but one game, splitting time between catcher (29g), corner infield (6g) and designated player (18g) … Batted .371 (62-for-167) with a team-best 10 home runs and 50 RBI … Average was the 15th best in the LSC and RBI total was 10th … Ranked among national leaders in HR (0.19) and RBI per game (0.94) … Seven of her HR came vs. LSC opponents as she led all Wildcats with a .410 average against conference foes … Crushed walk-off home runs against No. 16 Central Oklahoma and Cameron … Walk-off vs. the Bronchos gave the Wildcats a 6-5 win … Shot against the Aggies clinched a 10-2 run-rule decision … Went 7-for-14 (.500) with four runs and three RBI during early-season weekend series vs. UCO and Eastern New Mexico … Finished series vs. Cameron with a .556 (5-for-9) batting average, two home runs, five runs and eight RBI – five of which came in game three to tie a career high … Drove in five runs three games earlier at West Texas, including four on a grand slam over the left-field wall … Torched the Zias a second time late in the year, going 4-for-9 with a home run, three RBI and five runs … Used a team and season-best 14-game hitting streak from Feb. 2 to March 1 to raise average 182 points from .222 to .404 … Went 21-for 45 (.467) during this stretch with a home run, five doubles, 11 runs and 15 RBI … Streak included four consecutive multi-hit games and four two-RBI performances … Led the team with 11 doubles and 105 total bases for a .629 slugging percentage … Showered Incarnate Word with six hits, including two over the wall, to go along with four RBI and three runs … Finished year with 38 runs … Ripped two doubles as part of a 3-for-3 game at Texas Woman’s and tied a season high with three runs scored … Later matched that total in games vs. Cameron, Eastern New Mexico and Midwestern State … Homered and drove in three runs as part of a 2-for-4 afternoon vs. Texas-Permian Basin … Doubled, tripled, homered and plated four runs during weekend series at Texas A&M-Kingsville … Finished regular season with 6-for-11 series vs. Midwestern State in which scored three runs and drove in four … Led all Wildcats with 19 multi-hit and 14 multi RBI games … 14-game hitting streak was part of a team-best 21-game reached base streak that stretched all the way to March 13 … Batted .403 in her starts at catcher and .321 in her starts at DP … Credited with three sacrifice flies, a sacrifice hit and two stolen bases … Caught two runners stealing.
2012 (Sophomore): Third Team All-Lone Star Conference ... Batted .333 (43-129) with seven home runs and 20 RBI ... Appeared in 46 games with 44 starts split between designated player and the outfield ... Clubbed eight doubles, scored 17 runs and stole four bases on as many attempts ... Led team in slugging (.558) and from March 24 to April 20 she produced an 11-game hitting streak, which raised her batting average from .284 to .324 ... Batted .591 (13-22) vs. left-handed pitchers ... Recorded seven multi-hit games, including a pair of three-hit performances vs. Missouri Southern and Midwestern State ... Ripped four RBI and belted a home run during doubleheader vs. Texas Woman's ... Drew 10 walks and was credited with four sacrifice hits.
2011 (Freshman): Hit .309 through 46 games and 29 starts with seven home runs and 23 RBI, nine of which came with two outs … Scored 29 runs … Clubbed five doubles … Batted .355 with runners in scoring position … Tabbed to the St. Mary’s College Softball Classic All-Tournament Team after going 2-for-3 with a double, walk and four RBI vs. Angelo State … Went 2-for-3 with three RBI in her next game on Feb. 12 vs. St. Mary’s … Hit her first career home run vs. St. Edward’s on Feb. 27 … Scorched a pair of round-trippers as part of a 2-for-4, four RBI game against Texas Woman’s on April 8 and again eight days later as part of a 3-for-3 performance vs. A&M-Kingsville … Finished series vs. Javelinas with a .750 batting average (6-for-8), six runs and three RBI … Collected six hits, including two doubles and a home run in the final doubleheader of the season vs. Tarleton … Went 3-for-4 in each game vs. the TexAnns and totaled six runs for the entire series.
High School: Graduated with honors in 2010 from Uvalde High School where she lettered in softball, volleyball, track and cheerleading … Earned first team honors as a catcher and second team distinction as a second baseman … Won MVP awards for offensive and defensive performances … All-State Academic … Left school with a career .475 batting average ... Honor Society member.
Personal: Given name is Lyndi Kristina Smith … Born 1 October 1991 in Uvalde, Texas … Resides in Uvalde … Daughter of Coy and Pat Smith … Brother, Steven, played football at West Texas A&M … Psychology major … Hobbies include exercising.