Cal Poly Softball junior centerfielder Jessica Clements is adding to an impressive 2024 season as she enters the week leading all NCAA Division I softball players in batting average.
The two-time All-Big West first-team award winner is batting an impressive .505 average on the season as Clements is the only player out of 6,400 qualifying Division I softball players with an average over .500, according to Cal Poly Athletics.
Clements currently leads the national batting race by ten points over the second-ranked leader junior outfielder Alex Coleman out of the University Of North Carolina,
Additionally, Clements has the opportunity to break the batting average record for Cal Poly and the Big West Conference, set in 2007 by Lisa Modglin, an all-American outfielder who batted a .476 average that season.
Clements could shatter the 21-year record as she continues her dominance, recording a hit in 24 of her last 28 games, and has struck out only four times out of 113 plate appearances the entire season.
Clements has led the Mustangs to a 17-11 overall record and a 7-2 Big West record as the team has most recently taken two out of three games from Blue-Green rival UC Santa Barbara.
The junior out of Salinas will look to keep her national lead as the Mustangs will hit the road to take on the University of Hawaii in a Big West conference matchup on Friday, April 5.