Alicia Hollowell

Alicia Kay Hollowell-Dunn (born February 29, 1984) is an American, former collegiate four-time All-American, retired professional softball pitcher and assistant coach.

Her performance bettered DeeDee Weiman's previous record of 53 strikeouts in a 29-inning game between Cerritos Gahr High School and Lakewood St. Joseph High School in 1986; in that same game, Lisa Fernandez struck out 48 batters (the fourth best high school outing) for Lakewood.

Hollowell also holds the Fairfield High School records for strikeouts in a career and strikeouts in a season.

She earned the MVP Award all four years of her high school career, as well as being named First-Team All-State and All-Conference.

In doing so, she also set the NCAA second-most strikeouts overall for a regulation game, behind only Michele Granger's total of 21 from 1991.

This game also began an 18 consecutive strikeout streak: Hollowell finished the game fanning 13 straight batters.

In a win over the UTEP Miners on March 7, she got a save by throwing a perfect inning and striking out all three batters faced.

In her second no-hitter against the Missouri Tigers on March 12, she began the game striking out the first two batters before the streak ended with a ground ball to the mound.

The perfect game was just the third in University of Arizona history, and the first since April 18, 1993; Hollowell was also only the second pitcher in UA history to throw a perfect game, as the preceding two had both been pitched by Susie Parra, in 1992 and 1993.

In addition, she also would throw 19 consecutive hitless innings over the same period as this perfect game.

On February 29 to begin the streak, she got a win over Stanford Cardinal and closed out the game with 1.1 hitless innings.

Finally, for Hollowell's career, she currently ranks top-5 with national high school records in strikeouts (2,238, first place); season strikeouts (641 & 636 in 2000 and 2001); perfect games (14); no-hitters (43); shutouts (111) and ERA (0.08).

Hollowell earned Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year along with all-conference honors and a First-Team All-American selection.

In that game, she struck out a career and school best 20 of 21 batters faced to break Becky Lemke's single-game school record of 19 from March 11, 2000.

She was also named the Gatorade State Player of The Year for 2001–2002, the Gatorade Softball Player of the Year for 2002, and the State Player of The Year also in 2002.

She played college softball at Arizona Wildcats softball from 2003 to 2006, collecting 144 career wins and 1,768 strikeouts, both top-10 NCAA career records.

She currently holds the Arizona Wildcats records for career strikeouts, shutouts and innings pitched, in addition to the Pac-12 Conference wins and strikeout ratio records.

Her season total of 394 strikeouts topped the school record of 366, set by Jennie Finch the previous season; her total of 40 wins also broke Becky Lemke's previous school rookie record of 25 and was the best total nationally in 2003, while both totals led the Pac-10.

She also tied the school season record for shutouts, a career best.

Hollowell made her official debut with a two-hit shutout, fanning 11 vs. the FAU Owls on January 31.

She also pitched three no-hitters in her opening season, the first coming on February 8 vs. Wisconsin Badgers.

Beginning on February 22 with a run-rule win of the Virginia Cavaliers, Hollowell had the longest scoreless inning streak of her career: 59.1 innings pitched, over 11 games (6 complete) and 10 wins.

The streak was snapped in 5–2 win vs. the Cal State Fullerton Titans on March 22 when they scored in the third inning.

Hollowell won back-to-back games against the No. 1 UCLA Bruins on April 5–6, going 14-innings and surrendering just one run, 6 hits and four walks.

Hollowell led the Wildcats to a No. 1 seed at the World Series with her 38–3 win–loss record.

In her debut at the Women's College World Series, Hollowell pitched all of Arizona's games and left with a 2–2 record, falling in the semifinals.

Hollowell won the 2006 Women's College World Series.

In her third game against California Golden Bears she struck out 17 in a 3–2 loss, her best showing at the WCWS until 2006.

Hollowell was also a WCWS All-Tournament Team honoree.

Hollowell broke her own school records for strikeouts and wins with career bests 508 and 41 respectively.

She earned Pac-10 "Pitcher of the Week" honors 5 times, for the weeks of February 17 – February 23, February 24 – March 1, March 2 – March 8, March 16 – March 22 and May 11 – May 16.

Hollowell also repeated all-season honors including Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year for achieving the pitching Triple Crown, leading the conference in wins, ERA and strikeouts (was the fourth pitcher to earn the distinction).

Her career best strikeout ratio of 12.1 led the NCAA Division I.

Hollowell was also named one of three finalists for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and the Honda Sports Award for softball.

Holowell threw two no-hitters, including one perfect game, a 6–0 win over the Indiana Hoosiers on March 6.

She was drafted fifth overall by the Arizona Heat in the National Pro Fastpitch but went on to play for the Akron Racers in 2007, leading them to the championship series before serving as an alternate for the United States women's national softball team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

For her collegiate career, Hollowell is one of five NCAA Division I pitchers to win 100 games, strikeout 1,000 batters, with a sub-1.00 ERA and average double digit strikeouts.

Hollowell has been named by Tucson, Arizona sportswriters as #6 Best Arizona Wildcat Softball Player; voted by Arizona fans as the #1 Best Pitcher; selected #10 Best Division I Pitcher by the NCAA.

Finally she was named a pitcher on the Pac-12 All-Century Team.

Hollowell holds the national high school record for strikeouts in a single game with 61, collected in a 30-inning game against Woodland High School that started on May 25, was suspended, then concluded four days later on May 29; she took 364 pitches to accomplish the feat, five more than opposing pitcher Kelly Anderson, and gave up just 10 hits.