Athlete: Addy Higginbotham
School: North Duplin
Sport: Softball
Position: Second base
Year: Senior
Hometown: Mount Olive
Parents: Jaime Kylis and Joey Higginbotham
A multi-sport student-athlete, Addy Higginbotham signed a national letter-of-intent to play softball at Wingate University. The NC Fastpitch Coaches Association recognized her as the District 2 Player-of-the-Year and All-State 1A East POY. Higginbotham helped lead North Duplin to a fourth consecutive Carolina 1A Conference regular-season championship last spring. The second baseman emerged as the team leader in batting average (.629), plate appearances (78), official at-bats (70), runs scored (37), hits (44) and RBI (25). She cranked out 18 extra-base hits.
Rebels’ head coach Jaime Kylis said, “I’m just proud of her for buckling down, getting her work done on her studies. She’s taking college courses and high school class to be able to continue to be successful in her sports is really great for her to be highlighted for her achievement. You can see there are some great things happening in little Duplin County.”
