bio
Sammi is from Buford, where she helped Buford High School win four straight state
championships. She holds school records with 32 career home runs and 18 single-season
home runs. She was a three-time all-state player for Burford and was the Gwinnett County
Player of the Year.
She signed to play at the University of Virginia and spent a year with the Cavaliers before
transferring to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, where she compiled a solid three-year career for the
Islanders.
In 2021, she posted a team-high .457 slugging percentage and tied for the team lead with 26
RBI. She had seven doubles, four triples and four home runs on the season, earning all-
conference honors. In a Covid-shortened 2020 season, she hit .400 and had a .700 slugging
percentage.
Sammi graduated from Texas A&M-Coprus Christi is currently a Pre-K teacher while studying to
gain her personal training certification. She has a passion for fitness and overall health and
wellness and loves coaching because it gives her the opportunity to pass along to the next
generation all the knowledge and wisdom she was given as an athlete.
She is driven to be the coach she wishes she had growing up, which means she’ll fit in perfectly
with the SBL Pirates mindset. She says softball is a game of failure and that failure allows you
to learn and grow.
Sammi has two dogs – Conor Cooper Thomas and Lucas James Thomas – and she wants you
to know that, yes, she did give them middle names.