{"id":239372,"date":"2026-07-09T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:19:18","slug":"upper-dublin-standout-named-high-school-on-sis-pennsylvania-softball-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239372\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Dublin standout named High School On SI&#8217;s Pennsylvania Softball Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fort Washington native Kyla Garrison, a recent graduate of Upper Dublin High School, has been voted High School On SI\u2019s Pennsylvania Softball Player of the Year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/high-school\/pennsylvania\/pennsylvania-fans-pick-upper-dublin-s-kyla-garrison-as-high-school-on-si-softball-player-of-the-year-01kww8456bsj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated announced t<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/high-school\/pennsylvania\/pennsylvania-fans-pick-upper-dublin-s-kyla-garrison-as-high-school-on-si-softball-player-of-the-year-01kww8456bsj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">o<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/high-school\/pennsylvania\/pennsylvania-fans-pick-upper-dublin-s-kyla-garrison-as-high-school-on-si-softball-player-of-the-year-01kww8456bsj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">day<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garrison earned 37.34 percent of the fan vote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the announcement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garrison capped a record-breaking senior season by earning multiple postseason honors. She finished with honors such as First-Team Pitcher and Suburban One Liberty Division Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>In the circle, Garrison went 19-8 with a 1.96 ERA, 315 strikeouts, and 59 walks in 185 2\/3 innings pitched. At the plate, she batted .494 with 24 RBIs and 10 doubles.<\/p>\n<p>She leaves Upper Dublin as the program\u2019s career leader in strikeouts (911) and single-season strikeouts (315), while also surpassing 100 career hits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aroundambler.com\/upper-dublin-high-schools-kyla-garrison-pitched-a-no-hitter-on-april-16th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">In 2024<\/a>, she pitched a no-hitter during a 5-0 victory over Abington Senior High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t even know why I wanted to be a pitcher in the first place. It just sounded fun,\u201d Garrison <a href=\"https:\/\/prepsoftball.com\/2026\/04\/26\/kyla-garrisons-early-morning-work-set-path-for-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told Prep Softball<\/a> in April. \u201cYou are always touching the ball and have more control of the game than in other positions, and I guess I really like that aspect of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garrison has committed to play for Howard University under head coach Tori Tyson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photos: Instagram, MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Washington native Kyla Garrison, a recent graduate of Upper Dublin High School, has been voted High School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-239372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}