Florida Softball adds Transfer Pitcher to 2025 Season
- Dan Bond
- Jun 18, 2024
- 1 min read
Florida softball landed UNC Wilmington transfer pitcher, Kara Hammock, for the 2025 season. Hammock will be a senior next season and was a second team All-Coastal Athletic Conference selection in 2024. Her ERA was 1.60 and she went 17-6.
Kara was first team all conference in 2023 with a 1.98 ERA and a 10-10 record as a freshman was Rookie of the Year.
This will be a nice addition to a young Florida pitching staff and a stellar incoming freshman class:
Infielder Gabi Comia (Cedar Lake, Ind., who hit over .600 the last two seasons.
Infielder Layla Lamar (Cary, N.C.), the daughter of Duke coach Marissa Young, who had a four-home run, 10-RBI game during her senior season.
Pitcher Katelynn Oxley (Bartow, Fla.), with more than 1,000 career strikeouts, including 16 in the Class 7A state championship game as a junior.
Katelynn Oxley is called “Red” because of her vividly natural orange locks. Red Oxley may just be even better than Ava Brown. We’re going to see a pitching-deep Gator team. Layla Lamar is from our North Carolina Triangle, has a well developed game. Though her mother Marissa is Duke’s excellent head coach, Marissa’s husband a Layla’s dad has been the indispensable instructor. He’s fallen into very poor health that required a double heart and lung transplant in 2023. One of Layla’s sisters, by the way, has committed to UCLA. The third still has high school ahead.