FULL NFCA RELEASE

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced senior outfielder Megan Delgadillo as the 2024 New Balance/ NFCA Golden Shoe Award recipient on Wednesday. Delgadillo is the first student-athlete from Fullerton and The Big West to win the award, which dates back to 2005. 

The NFCA All-West Region first-team honoree leads NCAA Division I with 44 stolen bases in 46 attempts and ranks fourth at .76 per game. She collected 23 of them before conference play started and had seven multi-stolen base games overall. 

Delgadillo led the Titans with a .417 batting average, 86 hits, 49 runs, a .515 slugging percentage and a .957 OPS. She sits atop the Titans record book in career hits (272), runs scored (172) and holds the program and Big West conference record for stolen bases (151). 

Her 86 hits this season broke her season-best record (80), posting a .442 on-base percentage and the ability to show her speed on the bases. 

Delgadillo became the all-time stolen base leader for The Big West against Toledo on March 7, stealing her 15th bag of the season and 122 overall. She passed UC Santa Barbara's Leslie Simien (121 SB), who had held the record since 2004. 

She was perfect in stolen base attempts (23-for-23) throughout the tournament season, tying her career-high with four stolen bases in a single game against Princeton on March 8. She matched that personal best for a third time 20 days later, stealing four more bases against UC Riverside on March 28. 

Delgadillo also worked her way to the top of the Titans record book in runs scored, scoring her 151st run at Cal State Bakersfield on March 23 to pass Titan alum and current assistant coach Gina Oaks Garcia (150 R). She recorded nine multi-runs scored games and entered the season with the ninth most runs scored in program history (123 R). 


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