BATON ROUGE — Future LSU softball pitcher Brittany Mack appeared in the May 26 issue of Sports Illustrated, in the magazine’s Faces in the Crowd section.
Mack was featured after striking out 39 batters in a 1-0 loss to Stony Point in 21 innings, allowing only an unearned run in the 21st inning. Video of her performance can be found at takkle.com/videofaces. This season, the senior at Westwood High School in the Austin, Texas, suburb of Round Rock has posted an 18-9 record with a 0.76 earned run average and 338 strikeouts.
One of the top high school players in the state of Texas, Mack was named the District 14-5A Newcomer of the Year as a freshman at Westwood after hitting .420 with 13 stolen bases. Starting every game at either first base or in the circle as a sophomore, she struck out 120 in 71 innings and tossed a pair of perfect games, six shutouts and posted a 0.48 earned run average. She went on to earn first-team all-county, second-team All-Centex and first-team all-district honors.
The daughter of Scott and Janet, Mack earned second-team all-state honors and was an EA Sports second-team All-American. A member of the Stix travel team, she was the District 14-5A Most Valuable Player as a junior as Westwood High school won the area championship.