Ag playing dividends for Frazier on softball diamond

Windthorst senior Marisa Frazier is one of the two remaining players from Alyson Deatherage’s state tournament team in 2019. She’s been through the ups and downs of the seasons and has seen it all on the softball field.

Deatherage believes that the success early in her high school career has translated well into Frazier’s development.

“She came in her freshman year when we went to state and was able to grow and learn from a lot of great outfielders. She used to slap for me but we decided to turn her around because she showed a lot of power from the right side. She’s one that’s done everything I’ve asked of her and that’s been really good to have throughout the years.”

When she’s not playing softball, the Trojanettes left fielder is heavily involved in the Windthorst ag program and just this past weekend was showing in the Houston Stock Show.

“It’s been tough trying to manage both but I’ve always managed both things,” Frazier said of her softball and ag careers. “When it’s sunlight I go work with the animals and when it gets dark I’ll go to the batting cage. I manage both of them pretty good. My dad has always been my pitcher so that’s always helped a lot. Even when we’re at shows, we’re always looking for a D-Bat. I bring all of what I’ve learned from ag like the leadership and dedication and time onto the softball field and enforce that in the dugout, especially the leadership part. I’m trying to lead the team to the best of my ability, especially as a senior.”

The love for the game came at an early age for Frazier. Playing from T-Ball on up, she said the game started to click for her in 12u.

“It all started when I was four or five years old,” Frazier said. “My dad signed me up for T-Ball. T-Ball progressed into machine pitch and that went into 10u, 12u. It just escalated from there. I started really growing an interest in it and told my dad that I really liked softball. We started finding travel teams and I’ve been playing ever since. I’ve grown to love it. It is my sport and it made me who I am today.”

That player today is a monster on the diamond for the Trojanettes. This season, she’s hitting at a .481 clip with a pair of doubles, seven RBI and six runs scored to go along with six stolen bases.

Frazier’s goal for the team is simple: make it back to the state tournament.

“The goal for every team is state. I would really love to shoot for state again. That would be amazing. I would love to go undefeated in district. I have full faith in my team that we can. Going to state as a freshman really set the bar high, especially for Camryn and me. With us being the seniors on the team and going to state our freshman year, that bar has always been set really high for us. We’ve always shot each year to go to state. We really work well together. We tried to take all the bonds are freshman year and enforce those this year. We were close our freshman year. We want to be like a family.”

When it’s time to call it quits, the Windthorst senior simply wants to be remembered as someone who left everything they had on the field.

With an attitude like that, Marisa Frazier is someone it’s easy to pull for.