The Real Deal: Tori Edwards, SEC Freshman of the Year & LSU Softball Star, Joins The Show
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4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Tori Edwards, who appeared and started in all 58 games at first base and put together one of the greatest freshman season in LSU Softball program history in 2025, joins the latest episode of The Real Deal podcast. Watch on LSU Plus.
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| 0:00.0 | On July 1st, student athletes can profit off name, image, and lightning. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to another episode of the Real Deal podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm your host, Jamar Lincoln, Assistant Director of NIL. |
| 0:20.0 | We got us another special guest with us today. |
| 0:22.3 | She is a sophomore for the LSU softball team. |
| 0:24.9 | Prior to LSU at Edward S. Marcus High School, she was the three-time District 6-8 |
| 0:29.3 | offensive player the year. |
| 0:30.8 | In 2023, she was Dallas, Fort Worth, FP All Metroplex first team, softball lives, Texas High School School, Allstate team, and she was ranked 21st nationally in her class by extra inning softball. |
| 0:43.7 | She was also selected to the 2022 Extra Ending Softball 18 and Under All Summer Team. |
| 0:49.8 | As a redshirt freshman at LSU, she was named NFCA All-American Second team, D-1 softball, All-American first team, NFCA freshman |
| 0:58.8 | the year top ten finalists, all SEC first team, SEC freshman year, LSUA, hitter of the |
| 1:05.5 | year, and LSWA, All-Louisiana first team. |
| 1:09.1 | She had a single season program record of a 0.802 slugging percentage and tied for a program best 18 home runs in a single season. |
| 1:17.9 | She finished the softball season with a 0.375 batting average 62 hits, 52 RBIs. |
| 1:23.8 | She was also SEC first year academic honor roll and SEC spring academic honor roll as well from flower |
| 1:30.2 | Mount Texas miss Tori Edwards hi thank you for having me who got to be here that was a lot but you did good |
| 1:37.2 | I think I did the best that could that was a mouthful when you I mean reading through all of these |
| 1:43.1 | accolades in such a early career, |
| 2:01.2 | what do you, what do you think about when you hear all of these different things? I'm not going to go back through it, but S.C. Freshman year, new coming a year, you know, hitter of the year, all of these things. I think for me, I just have to remember, like, I just want to be proud of myself because, like, it took a lot of hard work, |
| 2:20.3 | a lot of, like, sweat, tears, time. So I'm just happy, like, with myself of, like, I, like, iron those things. So, like, I want to honor them and, like, just knowing, like, going forward, like, I don't need to replicate or duplicate or, like, try to strive for those things again like if I just keep working hard and |
| 2:18.6 | kind of doing the preparation I was doing before I even had those accolades like I think I can |
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