SMU Athletics

HONORS & AWARDS
ACC All-Academic Team (2024)
AAC All-Academic Team (2022 & 2023)

PRONUNCIATION: BAY-ten-horst

2024 (Junior)
• Played in 79 sets and tallied 16 assists and 19 aces in the Mustangs' first season in the ACC
• Also collected 32 digs in her junior campaign
• Notched a season-high four assists twice against Weber State and Louisville
 
2023 (Sophomore)
• Played 107 sets and tallied a team-high 34 service aces
• Batenhorst averaged .32 aces per set
• Passed out 56 assists and finished with 32 digs

2022 (Freshman)
• Played 55 sets in 19 matches
• Totaled 133 total assists and recorded 45 total digs

High School/Club
• Played for Amy Cataline at Seven Lakes High School
• Class 6A State Champion in 2020
•  Set the school-record for assists in a season (3011 in 2021)
• Third All-Time in assists in a Texas 6A State Championship game
• Played for the Houston Juniors Club
• 2021-22 TGCA Academic All-State, TGCA All-State, THSCA Academic All-State Honorable Mention, and a AVCA Second-Team All-American
• 2020 Houston Chronicle’s All-Greater Houston First-Team
• 2020 TGCA Academic All-State, TGCA All-State Team, and 2020 AVCA Phenom List
• A 2019 TAVC All-Texas Team 6A

Personal
• Born to Susan and Kurt Batenhorst
• Has two sisters, Allysa and Danielle
• Sister Ally played at USC and Nebraska, and Danielle played at Gonzaga
• Ally was the No. 15 pick in the 2024 PVF Draft, taken by the Omaha Supernovas