Lou Allan

Class:
Senior
Position:
1B
Height:
5-5
B/T:
R/R
Hometown:
Hesperia, Calif.
High School:
Oak Hills

Senior (2021)
• NFCA All-Great Lakes Region first team
• All-Big Ten first team
• Appeared in 45 games, starting 36 at first base and nine at designated player
• Posted 15 multi-hit and 15 multi-RBI games
• Tallied career highs in all offensive categories, including a .383 batting average and a team-best 13 homers and 45 RBI
• Broke a scoreless tie with a sixth-inning solo homer in U-M's 2-1 win at #6 Washington in NCAA Regional play (May 22); also posted two RBI singles vs. Washington in the regional finale (May 23)
• Used a sixth-inning solo homer to plate the go-ahead run in the series finale vs. Rutgers (May 16)
• Posted eight hits and nine RBI in the Penn State series (April 30-May 2), • Belted a three-run walk-off homer in the seventh as part of a 3-for-4, four-RBI game vs. Northwestern-2 (April 24)
• Homered twice, in the first and third innings, vs. Maryland (April 18)
• Broke a scoreless tie with a sixth-inning solo homer at Ohio State-1 (April 10); also went 2-for-3 with a three-run homer in the OSU series opener

Junior (2020)
The 2020 season was canceled after 23 games due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
• Started 22 games at first base and designated player
• Posted two hits, including a second-inning RBI single, in U-M's 8-2 win vs. No. 25 Texas Tech (Feb. 29)
• Used an RBI single in the third to drive in the lone run in a 1-0 win vs. Liberty (Feb. 21)
• Knocked out a sixth-inning homer as part of a 2-for-3, two-RBI effort vs. No. 7 Florida (Feb. 8)
• Went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer in the sixth inning in the season opener vs. Georgia State (Feb. 7)

Sophomore (2019)
• Appeared in 22 games, starting one at designated player; missed the first half of the season with injury
• Used a fifth-inning pinch-hit double in the fifth to push across a run in U-M's 3-2 win over #12 Minnesota in the Big Ten Tournament final (May 11)
• Knocked out a pinch-hit solo home run in the fourth inning vs. Penn State (April 28)
• Drove in two runs on a two-out bloop to rightfield to contribute to U-M's four-run seventh and comeback win at Illinois (April 20)

Freshman (2018)
• Appeared in 36 games, starting 25 at designated player
• Used an infield single to drive in the game-winning run in a 3-2 comeback win vs. Ohio State (May 4)
• Knocked out a two-run homer in the series finale vs. Maryland (April 22)
• Posted three hits and four RBI in the Penn State series (April 6-8), including the game-winning two-run homer in the seventh inning in the second game
• Recorded back-to-back multi-hit games in the Iowa doubleheader (March 23)
• Broke open FAU game with a bases-clearing double in the sixth inning (March 9)
• Tallied a pinch-hit two-run single in first collegiate plate appearance vs Charlotte (March 1)

Prep
• Graduated from Oak Hills High School (2017)
• Twice named the Mojave River League Player of the Year (2016, '17); also selected as the 2015 Mojave River League Offensive Player of the Year
• Named the 2016 High Desert Player of the Year and 2017 Citrus Belt Athlete of the Year
• Selected First Team All CIF Southern Section (2016)
• Posted a .644 batting average with a .693 on-base percentage and 1.260 slugging percentage as a senior (2017); also registered .600/.660/1.270 slash line as a junior (2016)
• Tallied 44 career home runs and 103 career RBI
• Selected to the 2017 USA Softball Junior National Team, helping Team USA to a gold medal at the Jr. Women's Softball World Championship
• Played travel ball with the Firecrackers-Rico club; contributed to four straight top-five finishes at PGF Nationals, including an 18U national championship in 2016
• Rated the No. 8 overall prospect in FloSoftball's 2017 Hot 100 Rankings
• Honor Roll

Personal
• Alexis Allan was born on July 4, 1999
• Her nickname, "Lou," stems from her grandfather's original "Lexilou" nickname and differentiated two players named Alexis on her team as a 12-year-old
• Enrolled in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, majoring in political science
• Daughter of Jason and Tracy Allan
• Has a younger brother, Austin
• Grandmother, Sheila Cornell-Douty, is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (1996, 2000) and inductee into the National Softball Hall of Fame and International Softball Federation Hall of Fame