The 2023 college softball season will be an exciting time for the Edgmon family because sisters Addy and Ella will be playing for Western Kentucky and Georgia Tech, respectively.
The path to Division I scholarships for the recent Sequatchie County High School standouts was built on years of hard work, including playing for select teams that travel to face elite competition at tournaments. Over the years, the Edgmon sisters played in 15 states and went as far as Los Angeles to build their skills and get noticed by college scouts.
“We honestly haven’t added up the cost and don’t want to,” mom Kelly Moore Edgmon said of the price of putting her daughters through select softball. “I am sure the money we have spent over the years we could have saved and stayed home with college paid for, but they loved the game and we enjoy spending time with them. Softball started as a sport they loved to play and expanded to playing better competition in different regions.”
The work went beyond games and even team practices. When not playing for Sequatchie’s Lady Indians in the spring or traveling with their select teams in the summer, Addy and Ella worked out at home, took lessons from private instructors and molded themselves into the best possible athletes they could be.
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Sequatchie County softball’s Addy and Ella Edgmon
In the 2021 TSSAA season, the fleet-footed sisters combined for 78 stolen bases and helped Class 2A’s Lady Indians slug a program-record 61 home runs. They also helped Sequatchie County reach the Spring Fling state tournament that year and in 2019.