Shannon Cunningham Season 2025

bio entering 2025 season

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (2023-24)
Started 34 of her 70 games for the Sun Devils... Accumulated a .254 batting average across two seasons at Arizona State with a .757 OPS... Tallied 11 extra base hits including five home runs... Knocked in 23 runs and scored 18 times... Had an eight-game hitting streak from Feb. 23-March 2, 2024, finishing the stretch 9-for-20 with eight RBIs and three homers including a walk-off grand slam against Idaho State on Feb. 24… Singled twice and homered while driving in a trio of runs in her first career three-hit game against Maine on Feb. 10, 2024… Belted her first collegiate home run at Utah on April 8, 2023… Batted .389 (7-for-18) as a pinch hitter during her freshman season… Her first career hits and RBIs came at SDSU Softball Stadium on a single and a two-run double in an 8-2 victory against the Aztecs as part of the SDSU Season Kickoff on Feb. 9, 2023.

CLUB BALL
Played two seasons each for Huntington Beach, California’s Explosion 18U Gold and Anaheim, California’s BSC Bengals Briggs… Helped lead the Bengals to the Elite 8 of the Colorado IDT in 2022… Competed for the Bradenton Slice of the FGCL Summer League in 2023, leading the league in home runs with 11 in 23 games while batting .353 with a 1.215 OPS.

HIGH SCHOOL
Lettered all four years at Foothill High in Santa Ana, California… Helped the Knights to a second place finish in the Crestview League as a freshman and fourth place finishes as a junior and senior… In 15 games as a senior, hit .469 with a 1.595 OPS on her way to First Team All-Crestview League, Second Team All-Orange County and Third Team All-California accolades… Was named a starter for the 2022 Orange County All-Star Game… Excelled in the classroom as well, taking multiple AP classes, earning AP Scholar with Distinction accolades and making the Principal’s Honor Roll in all four seasons.

PERSONAL
Shannon Angela Cunningham was born on June 3, 2004, in Newport Beach, California… Daughter of Susan and Gary Cunningham… Mom, Susan, ran track at Cal State Fullerton… Is majoring in journalism with an emphasis in sports and plans of becoming a sportswriter or an analyst on a sports broadcast after graduation… Picked number 17 because it was the number of former Anaheim Angels slugger Darin Erstad… Lists her favorite athlete as former San Diego Wave FC player Alex Morgan… Originally wanted to play soccer collegiately and played baseball as a youth, appearing in the Little League State Tournament as an 11-year-old… Chose SDSU over Louisiana Tech, Boise State and Cal State Fullerton.