IRVING, Texas — BYU softball's Chloe Temples was named the 2024 Spring Big 12 Scholar Athlete of the Year for softball, the league announced on Wednesday.
Student-athletes were selected as award winners for their respective sports based on a vote of each sport’s head coaching group.
Also named to the Spring Academic All-Big 12 First Team earlier in the week, Temples graduated with a 3.99 GPA as a microbiology student. The left-handed pitcher out of Marianna, Florida was a two-time College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honoree (2023-24) and 2023 West Coast Conference (WCC) All-Academic honoree as well.
Temples concluded her collegiate career this past season, finishing with a 3.15 ERA on 577 innings pitched, with a 49-35 record, three saves and 558 total strikeouts, including 126 looking.
She played the final three seasons of her career in Provo, being named to the All-WCC Second Team twice and the Big 12 Championship All-Tournament team this past year. The southpaw led the Cougars in 2024 with 11 wins, 115.1 innings pitched and 119 stirkeouts.
Continuing her softball career, Temples signed with the Women's Professional Fastpitch (WPF) league's Hub City Adelitas earlier this summer, joining teammate and fellow BYU alum, Maddie Bejarano.
Temples was joined by Bella Folino of women’s soccer and Eliza Millar-Crossman of women’s gymnastics as Cougar student-athletes to earn prestigious individual academic accolades in 2023-24. Folino was recognized with the NCAA’s Elite 90 Award at the College Cup while Millar-Crossman also claimed a Big 12 Scholar Athlete of the Year award.
View the full Big 12 press release at the conference's website.