Kaley Winegarner

Photo by: Stephen J. Carrera

Height:
5-9
Class:
Graduate Student
High School:
Pacifica
Hometown:
Garden Grove, Calif.

2020: Allowed no earned runs in 4.0 innings and collected four strikeouts in her first start of the season against Portland State (2/9) ... Threw 3.2 shutout innings of relief, allowing two hits and six strikeouts, to help defeat Kansas (2/15) ... Allowed only one run in 3.2 innings of work against No. 15 Oregon (2/22) … Allowed only one run over 5.1 innings of work to help defeat Abilene Christian (2/29) … Tossed 2.1 scoreless innings against Oklahoma, striking out four and allowing one hit (3/1).

2019: Appeared in 13 games as a pitcher, making seven starts and six relief appearances … Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors … Threw 33.2 innings and collected the second lowest earned run average (3.12) of her four year career … Allowed only one earned run in 3.1 innings while stranding four runners on base in a win over Cal Poly (3/1) ... Gave up just one run in two innings of relief work against No. 3 Oklahoma (3/10) ... Tied a career-high with eight strikeouts over five innings while allowing just three hits to earn the win versus Toledo (3/16) ... Shut out Rutgers over 1.2 innings in relief to earn another win (3/23) ... Was awarded the win after tossing 4.1 innings and giving up only one run to Iowa (3/30) ... Earned the win after giving up one earned run in 3.1 innings with two strikeouts against Wisconsin (4/13) ... Threw two strikeouts and allowed just one earned run in 2.1 innings against Purdue (4/20) ... Pitched five innings while giving up only one run to earn the win at Michigan State (4/27) ... Held Minnesota scoreless through three innings and added three strikeouts (5/5).

2018: Appeared in four games in the circle, starting three times and making one relief appearance before suffering a season-ending injury during the second weekend of the season ... Took the ball in the Opening-Day start against No. 7 Arizona, holding the Wildcats to a single run until a late rally in the sixth inning (2/9) ... Picked up a win in relief against San Diego State (2/9), entering in the seventh to strand the winning run at third base before getting the win in the eighth.

2017: Appeared in 24 games with 16 starts and eight relief appearances ... Earned a complete-game win in each of her final four starts of the year ... Fanned five in 3.2 innings of relief against No. 21 Baylor ... Threw a scoreless inning of relief against No. 8 Washington (2/25) ... Had the best outing of her career on March 5 against No. 8 Washington, shutting out the high-powered Huskies through regulation before taking a hard-luck loss in international tiebreak play in extra frames ... Went the full 8.0 innings in that game, scattering eight hits and four walks with a career-best five Ks ... Prior to the Washington game, gave up only one earned run in 3.2 innings of relief against No. 3 Florida, allowing NU to cut a 6-1 deficit down to 6-4 in the late innings (3/4) ... Fired two scoreless innings of relief against Lehigh (3/17) ... Allowed only an unearned run in a complete-game three-hitter with five strikeouts to defeat Santa Clara (3/18) ... Threw another 8.0-inning complete game against a ranked opponent in a 5-4 win against No. 22 Wisconsin (3/25) ... Allowed just three hits in those eight frames against the Badgers ... Tossed 4.0 shutout innings in a win over UIC (3/29) ... Fanned a career-best seven batters in a 5.1-inning win over Maryland (4/8) ... Tossed her first-career shutout with a three-hit effort against DePaul (4/19), striking out six in 6.0 innings ... Threw a scoreless inning against Purdue for a save (4/21) ... Followed up her DePaul shutout with another three-hit shutout in her next start, this time over seven innings and with a career-best eight strikeouts in a win over Purdue (4/22) ... Earned a complete-game victory over Illinois (5/3) ... Threw a pair of complete-game wins at Iowa ... In the opener with the Hawkeyes, allowed four hits and two runs in the first inning before giving up just three hits and no runs the entire rest of the game (5/5) ... Scattered five hits and two runs in a win in the finale (5/7) ... Chucked a career-best complete-game two-hitter with a career-best eight strikeouts in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament against Purdue (5/11).

2016: Appeared in 15 games in the circle with three starts ... Tossed a scoreless inning of relief in her collegiate debut during a 15-3 (5) run-rule victory over UC Riverside (2/12) ... The next day, came in to toss 1.2 innings of scoreless relief with two strikeouts against No. 8 Tennessee (2/13) ... Tossed a complete-game three-hitter for her first collegiate win, shaking off three unearned first-inning runs to retire the final 13 batters in a row in an eventual 4-3 victory over Boston College (2/20) ... Earned a win against New Mexico State with four innings of work in an eventual 12-4 (6) run-rule victory ... Tossed a scoreless inning of relief against Quinnipiac (3/18) to earn a combined shutout with classmate Kenzie Ellis ... Tossed 4.1 innings of scoreless relief across two different games during Northwestern’s series against No. 21 Minnesota (4/1-4/3), fanning five ... Threw two-thirds of a scoreless inning in relief at Wisconsin (4/30).

High School: Six-year veteran of the OC Batbusters club program, winning the 16u and 18u PGF national championships, the 2012 and 2013 Boulder Independence Tournaments and the 12u ASA national championship ... 2012 Max Preps Freshman All-American ... Empire League Pitcher of the Year ... ESPN Rise All-State second team ... 2012 OC Varsity all-county, All-Empire League and Pacifica Rookie of the Year ... Pacifica won the 2014 CIF Division I championship ... High school also won the Empire League in 2011, was a 2012 CIF Southern Section quarterfinalist and 2013 CIF Southern Section semifinalist ... Compiled a 23-6 record with a 1.12 ERA, 236 strikeouts and 16 shutouts in her high school career ... Also was a varsity swimmer with Pacifica ... Principal honor roll member from 2012-15 ... Won the student scholar athlete award in 2012.

Personal: Born Kaley Nicole Winegarner ... Daughter of Trisha Winegarner and Craig Winegarner ... High school teammate of current Wildcat Brooke Marquez ... Chose Northwestern over Auburn, Texas A&M, Stanford, Florida, Michigan, Oklahoma, Baylor, LSU and Washington ... Major is Communication Studies and minor is Business Institutions.