HONORS AND AWARDS
2025 Second Team All-Sun Belt
GS Honor Roll Spring 2024
AS A JUNIOR (2025)
Went 7-4 in 15 appearances in the circle, making 13 starts … Named second team All-Sun Belt for first career honor … Finished second in the Sun Belt with a 2.18 ERA in 64.1 innings pitched … Struck out a career high seven batters in complete game shutout against Marshall on April 27 … Allowed just 57 hits, 25 runs, and 16 walks to lead the Sun Belt … Held batters to a .234 batting average.
AS A SOPHOMORE (2024)
Pitched in 18 games making 16 starts … Went 8-4 with a 2.76 ERA in 83.2 innings of work … Gave up 77 hits and 25 walks while striking out 53 batters … Threw a career-best against Coastal Carolina tossing seven complete innings and striking out a career-high seven batters on March 29.
AS A FRESHMAN (2023)
Pitched in 23 games, making 14 starts, for the Eagles as a freshman ... Went 1-10 with a 5.23 ERA in 95.0 innings of work ... Gave up 136 hits and 52 walks while striking out 54 batters ... Notched her first collegiate shutout by limiting North Carolina A&T to just two hits and four walks, striking out six, in the Eagles' 4-0 win on February 26.
HIGH SCHOOL
Played at Southeast Bulloch HS for four seasons ... Two-time Region Player of the Year and two-time All-State honoree for the Yellowjackets ... Hit .534 with 13 home runs and 43 RBI as a senior, while also notching 247 strikeouts in the circle and recording an 0.89 ERA ... Plays travel ball for Georgia Power.
PERSONAL
Born Alana Jayne Barnard on December 5, 2003, in Statesboro, Ga., her hometown ... Daughter of Heidi and Robbie Barnard ... Has one sister, Emily, and one brother, Bryce ... Sister, Emily, played softball at Reinhardt University ... Mother, Heidi, attended Georgia Southern.
MAJOR
Elementary Education
