ECU Softball has released the names and details of eight new transfers who are joining the program.
More details can be found below from ECU Sports Information.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina softball team will add eight incoming transfers to its roster for the upcoming 2026 season according to an announcement by fifth-year head coach Shane Winkler on Thursday.
Pitcher Abby Huhn (Iowa State), outfielder Alexis Morgan (UCF), infielder Sarah Stone (Indiana), infielder Lillian Martineau (Georgia Tech), pitcher/utility Julia Apostolakos (South Florida), infielder/utility Erin Parker (North Carolina), catcher/infielder Addison Lund (Charlotte) and outfielder Hailey Deter (Utah) will join the 10 returners from last year’s team that hit a single-season program record 76 home runs, won a program-best 14 American Conference games and made only its second American semifinal appearance since joining the league in 2015.
“I’m proud of the work our staff put in this summer to add such a large transfer class,” Winkler said. “We improved the program in every area with this class. The ability to get better in the pitching circle through the portal is huge and we did just that. We’re also bringing in a ton of offensive firepower from both sides of the plate with the hitters that are joining us. We have had a ton of success with the portal in the past and we believe this group will help us take the next step towards competing for a championship and reaching NCAA postseason play.”
Abby Huhn | RHP | Sophomore | Carlsbad, Calif. (Iowa State)
2025 (at Iowa State): Pitched the third most innings of any member of the team, tossing 55.1 frames … Finished with a 5.06 ERA to go along with a 3-3 record … Appeared in 24 games, making 11 starts with one complete game (Portland State, Feb. 22) …Struck out 13 batters and allowed 40 earned runs … Recorded two strikeouts, a season-best, four times … Named to the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll in the fall of 2024.
High School: A two-sport athlete at Mission Hills, Huhn decided to stick with softball over basketball, a sport both her sisters play … Went on to be a four-year starter and four-year letterwinner at Mission Hills … She made the all-conference team in both her sophomore and junior seasons and helped lead the team to a league victory in her freshman campaign … Held a 1.66 ERA and struck out 200 batters … Had a personal best of 16 strikeouts in a single game … As a two-way player, also batted .370 at the plate.
Alexis Morgan | OF | Junior | Centreville, Va. (UCF)
2025 (at UCF): Appeared in a single-season career high 29 games, including one start … Scored eight runs and stole one base as a pinch-runner … Earned her first career hit in UCF’s 8-0 run-rule win over George Mason (Feb. 28).
2024 (at UCF): Appeared in 12 games as a pinch-runner … Went 1-for-1 in stolen base attempts, recording her first collegiate stolen base in UCF’s 5-4 eight-inning win over BYU April 6 … Scored seven runs.
High School: Attended Westfield High School, playing under head coach Donnie Dutton … Earned All-District First Team, All-Regional First Team, VHSL Class 6A All-State Team Outfielder, and Spring All-Metro First Team Outfielder honors during her junior season in 2022 … Was named All-District First Team Outfielder as well as All-Regional First Team Outfielder during her sophomore season in 2021 … Contributed to a trio of club championship teams, including Mojo Lunsford 18-U and LLG Wools (14-U and 12-U) … Was a part of the Alliance Fastpitch National Championship team, as well as the second place-finishing Colorado Sparkler squad, both in 2022 … Was also a part of the National Honor Society, Pre Med Club, Black Student Union, College Partnership Program, AVID, HOSA and GRACE throughout her high school tenure.
Sarah Stone | INF | Graduate Student | Bedford, Ind. (Indiana)
2025 (at Indiana): Appeared and started in nine contests for the Hoosiers, batting .333 with five RBI and a home run … Tallied 46 putouts and a fielding percentage of .979.
2024 (at Indiana): Named All-Big Ten First Team and Academic All-Big Ten … Started all 60 games at first base for the Hoosiers … Hit for a .313 average at the plate … Logged 56 hits, 10 doubles, one triple and 10 home runs, 47 RBI and scored 28 runs … Drew 27 walks … Went 3-for-3 on stolen bases … Went 2-for-3 with two RBI in 11-3 win against Army (Feb. 10) in NFCA Leadoff Classic … had a two-run home run at No. 17 Arizona (Feb. 23) … Hit .545 with four doubles and seven RBI in the Indiana Invite (March 9-11) … Had two home runs and six RBI in 9-2 win over Mercer (March 16) … Went 3-for-3 against Michigan (March 29) with a home run and four RBI … Earned Big Ten Player of the Week for play in Michigan State series sweep (April 5-7) where she hit 6-for-10 (.600) from the plate with two home runs and five RBI … In the first game of the series Stone hit two home runs, including the go-ahead home run in the top of the eighth inning to lead the team to a 6-2 win … Went 5-for-8 (.625) batting with three RBI in series sweep at Iowa (April 19-21) … Hit a home run in Big Ten Tournament semifinal win over Nebraska (May 10) … Had a strong NCAA Tournament performance in the Columbia Regional, hit .429 with home runs and three RBI … Ranked No. 6 in RBI (47) in the Big Ten.
2023 (at Indiana): Named NFCA All-Region Third Team … Tabbed to the 2023 Big Ten All-Tournament Team and All-Big Ten Second Team … Big Ten Player of the Week (Mar. 27) … Started in 61 games for the Hoosiers this season as first baseman … Held a seven game hit streak with 13 multi-hit games … totaled 15 multi-RBI games including two games with five or more … Reached base in 11 consecutive games and ended the season with a current streak of five in the postseason tournaments … Tallied four hits with three doubles for four RBIs on opening weekend … Recorded three RBI against Pitt (Feb. 10) on opening day with two hits in the inning … Totaled three hits with one double and one home run and five RBI … Hit an RBI single in game one for the walk-off victory over No. 22 Maryland … Earned Player of the Week after tallying five hits, one double and three home runs for a 1.364 slugging percentage and 1.781 OPS against with 10 RBI against the Terps … Recorded a team high eight RBI along with a bases clearing triple in the Hoosiers sweep over Rutgers (Apr. 21-23) … Had three hits with one triple and one walk in the weekend series over the Scarlet Knights … led the Hoosiers over No. 7 seed Penn State (May 11) in the Big Ten Tournament Quarterfinals with a walk-off home run, her second walk-off win of the season along with a 1.000 slugging percentage with 1.300 OPS … Tallied two RBI with a solo home run in the Hoosiers 4-3 win over Louisville (May 19) in game one at the NCAA Knoxville Regional … Ranked second in the NCAA in sacrifice flies and first in the Big Ten … Second in conference in RBI (64).
2022 (at Indiana): Played in 45 games and made 30 starts in her freshman season in 2022 … Six runs scored, 23 hits, five doubles, one triple, two home runs and 13 RBI for the season … Two stolen bases … Hit a home run against Oklahoma (Mar. 18) that at the time was only the fourth home run Oklahoma had given up all season … First career home run against Eastern Kentucky (Mar. 13).
High School: Named an NFCA high school First Team All-American … Ranked the No. 17 overall player in the 2021 class … Ranked the No. 9 catcher in the country winning the Johnny Bench Award honoring the top high school catchers from the region … Honored as a three-time All-State Selection, All Hoosiers Hills Conference honoree, All-Region Performer and Indiana All-Star … Played travel ball for the Beverly Bandits Demarini Travel Organization … Earned PGF All-American with top rankings by FloSoftball and Extra Inning Softball … Registered 131 career home runs between high school and travel ball … Set Bedford North Lawrence records for highest career batting average (.540), single season batting average (.603), most career RBIs (125) and most home runs in a single season (17) … Totaled 10 doubles, 17 triples, 49 RBI and 47 runs scored in her career with the stars … Slugged 1.264, drew 33 walks and reached base at a .633 clip and posted a .992 fielding percentage in 263 chances.
Lillian Martineau | INF | Sophomore | Harwinton, Conn. (Georgia Tech)
2025 (at Georgia Tech): Appeared in 17 games, making five starts … Made her first career appearance against Eastern Kentucky during day one of the Buzz Classic (Feb. 7) … Had her first career start in right field and recorded a career high two runs to help Tech go on to beat Southern Illinois 12-8 (Feb. 14) … Recorded a career high two hits and three RBI during Tech’s 15-1 win over Bradley (Feb. 14).
High School: Played softball, baseball and basketball at Lewis Mills … Played three seasons of baseball in high school, making the switch to softball this past season … Earned a varsity letter, playing at shortstop and outfield … Earned a spot on the CCC All-Academic team in all four of her high school seasons … Fluent in French and plans on studying Literature Media & Communications.
Julia Apostolakos | RHP/UTL | Redshirt Sophomore | Beachwood, N.J. (South Florida)
2025 (at South Florida): Did not compete in any games for the Bulls.
2024 (at South Florida): Made 16 appearances and earned five starts in the circle…Pitched a combined no-hitter against Bethune-Cookman (Feb. 8) and earned her first victory… In 33 innings, she struck out 11 batters… Set a career-high of two strikeouts against UAB (Mar. 29)… Earned her first collegiate hit against Memphis (Apr. 5) … Finished the season with two RBI…Registered her first RBI against Bethune-Cookman (Feb. 8) …In the circle, pitched a career-high 4.2 innings against Charlotte (Mar. 9).
High School: Was a utility player at Donavan Catholic under head coach Debbie Schwartz… During her sophomore and junior seasons, she had a record of 59-2… Two-time NFCA All-American First Team and the NFCA All-Region First Team… Named to the All-State First Team… Two-time State Champion… During her junior year, was named the Gatorade Player of the Year… NJ.com Player of the Year…NJ Athletics Player of the Year…Ashbury Park Player of the Year…Max Preps Player of the Year… NJ Best Softball Player of the Year…Shore Conference Player of the Year… B-South Player of the Year…Max Preps NJ All-American First Team… Shore Savages First Team All American…Extra innings First Team All American…First Team All-Region…First team All-State, First team All-Shore, First Team All-Conference, First Team All-Division.
Erin Parker | INF/UTL | Junior | Roswell, Ga. (North Carolina)
2025 (at North Carolina): Appeared in four games … Had a hit, RBI, and run against Drexel (Feb. 13) … Drove in a run against Princeton (Feb. 15).
2024 (at North Carolina): Appeared in two games.
High School: Four-year letter winner at Mount Pisgah Christian School, played as a multi-position utility … Earned all-region honors all four years …First team all-state selection (2023) … 2023 Region Offensive Player of the Year … As a senior, held a .633 batting average, .705 on-base percentage with six home runs, and only three strikeouts the entire season (23 games) … Played travel ball for the East Cobb Bullets for six years … 2021 Alliance Fastpitch Homerun Derby Champion … 2023 Triple Crown Colorado 18U Futures participant … Helped Bullets to a fifth-place finish in 2022 Colorado Sparkler tournament.
Addison Lund | C/INF | Sophomore | Appleton, Wisc. (Charlotte)
2025 (at Charlotte): Appeared 39 times and started 34 games at catcher … Earned her first collegiate hit against No. 5 Texas A&M (Feb. 16) … Recorded three multi-hit games, including one against No. 5 Texas A&M … Recorded 10 RBI and walked 12 times … Posted a .954 fielding percentage on 131 chances.
High School: Batted .441 in 34 at-bats as a senior, recording 15 hits and 13 RBI … Named Bay All-Conference and All-District (2022–23) … Selected to the FVA All-Conference Team (2020–21) … Two-time USA HPP (High Performance Program) selectee.
Hailey Deter | OF | Redshirt Senior | Roanoke, Va. (Utah)
2025 (at Utah): Batted .275 with 16 RBI, five doubles and two home runs at the plate … Started in 26 of her 37 games played for the Utes … Recorded a perfect fielding percentage and 14 putouts on defense.
2024 (at Liberty): Helped lead the Flames to a Conference USA regular season title and tournament championship … Batted .269 with three home runs and 13 RBI in 41 games played … Hit her first collegiate home run against FIU on Mar. 8.
2023 (at Liberty): Appeared in six games, five as a pinch hitter and one as a pinch runner … Named ASUN Presidential Honor Roll … Helped Liberty reach the final game of the NCAA Los Angeles Regional.
2022 (at Liberty): Redshirted the season … Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete … ASUN Presidential Honor Roll.
High School/Prep: Helped lead Lord Botetourt to two district titles … Named first team all-district and first team all-region outfielder in 2021 after batting .452 with a .603 on-base percentage and a .929 slugging percentage … Added three homers, 11 doubles and 19 RBI as a senior … Slashed .360/.500/.640 with three homers and 18 RBI in 2019, leading to first all-district honors and being named second team all-region for the DP/flex position.