Katy RichardsonGPS’s Katy Richardson has committed to signing a softball scholarship with Lipscomb University.
Richardson’s first visit was an unofficial one to the Nashville campus in the fall of her sophomore year. She has since been to softball camps there, and her most recent visit was last Sunday. That’s when she accepted the offer.
“I love the team,” Richardson said. “I love everything about it. The campus is nice. I love Nashville. Everything is great about the school.”
Richardson has been playing softball since before she started school. When she was 12 she made the transition from right-handed batter to left-handed slapper. The experiment lasted about one summer season, but in the transformation she discovered she liked swinging the bat better from the left side.
Richardson said she works with her father, McCallie baseball coach Chris Richardson, two or three times per week in the offseason on hitting. Last spring she batted .383 for the Division II-AA state-runner-up Bruisers with seven doubles and 19 RBIs.