Aly Cappaert

Photo by: Athletics Communications

Position:
Utility
Height:
5-9
Class:
Senior
High School:
Ankeny HS
Hometown:
Ankeny, Iowa

Awards and Honors
All-Big 12 First Team (2015) ... NFCA DI All-Midwest Region First Team (2014) ... Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2014, 2015, 2016) … CoSIDA Academic All-District … 2016 Senior CLASS Award Candidate

2016 (Senior)
Played in and started all 55 games as a senior in the designated hitter position … was one of three Cyclones to start all 55 games in 2016 … amassed a .348 batting average while collecting 55 hits and 43 RBIs … hit 11 home runs, matching her out-put in 2014 and 2015 … led the team in home runs, RBIs and slugging percentage (.589) … drew 28 walks to became the all-time program record holder in career walks with 93 … had an on-base percentage of .450 … had the first triple of her career on Feb. 13 vs. North Dakota … tied a career-high with two home runs on Feb. 19 in a victory over Ball State … her five RBIs vs. Ball State were a season-best effort … had 15 multi-hit and a team-high 12 multi-RBI games … tied a career-best with three base hits on Feb. 26 vs. South Dakota … leaves Iowa State ranked No. 2 on the school’s all-time list in career RBIs (138), home runs (38) and slugging percentage (.609) … ranked No. 5 on the Big 12’s home runs list in 2016 with 11 … was named CoSIDA Academic All-District … Academic All-Big 12 First Team … 2016 Senior CLASS Award Candidate.

2015 (Junior)
2015 All-Big 12 First Team … 11th Cyclone in the Big 12 era to earn First Team honors … ranked second on the Cyclones with a .351 batting average, tying a team high with 11 home runs and ranking second on the Cyclones with 32 RBIs … posted 18 multi-hit games and led ISU with 10 multi-RBI games … in first game of series against Kansas, hit two solo home runs … recorded back-to-back three hit games against Texas Tech … six of 11 home runs on the season came against Big 12 opposition … hit solo home run in victory over Iowa … recorded 13 doubles, tied for the fourth-most in a season in school history … had three two-double games: Eastern Kentucky, first game of South Dakota doubleheader and first game of doubleheader at Oklahoma … led Iowa State with .459 on-0base percentage … drew 28 walks, tied for the third-most in a season in school history … recorded two walks in five different games, including a streak of three consecutive games drawing two walks against Miami (OH) and UNI … led Iowa State with .656 slugging percentage.

2014 (Sophomore)
Started and played in all 55 games for Iowa State, starting mostly as the designated player, but also playing some outfield … hit .366 for the season, 10th-best in the Big 12, with a team-high 11 home runs, tied for ninth in the Big 12, and 45 RBIs, eighth in the conference … 11 homers in a season are tied for the third-most in school history while 45 RBIs were second … finished season with team-high 102 total bases, which along with Lexi Slater’s 100 marked the first time in ISU history that two Cyclone teammates had 100 TBs in the same season … led ISU with 23 walks … also recorded 10 doubles … ranked second on Cyclones with 36 runs scored … started 2014 with seven game hit streak from and recorded a base hit in each of ISU’s first 11 games, setting a new hit streak record at Iowa State at 18 games … at Troy Cox Classic, hit 3-run home runs against New Mexico State, Northern Colorado and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, all in consecutive games … 2-run HR against TAMU-CC came in seventh inning to break 5-5 deadlock and give ISU a 7-5 win … finished the season with 18 multi-hit games … recorded three hits in a game four times … had a stretch of 13 RBIs in five games for the Cyclones, posting three consecutive three-RBI games to start the streak … in second game of Northern Illinois doubleheader, hit two home runs, including a walk-off homer in eighth inning to give Cyclones the win … drove in a career-high six RBIs at Texas Tech via a 2-for-5 effort in ISU’s win over the Red Raiders … finished the season with back-to-back two-hit games against Kansas.

2013 (Freshman)
Broke an Iowa State freshman record with a .518 slugging percentage…posted an on-base percentage of .402, the second-highest ever for a Cyclone freshman…was one of four Cyclones to hit above .300 for the season (.301)…drove in 18 runs and walked 14 times…hit two doubles, a home run and drove in two runs in the first game of a doubleheader with UMKC…had three RBI in the first game of a doubleheader against Minnesota…stole a base at Baylor.

High School
Awarded with First Team All-Conference and Class 4A First Team All-State accolades during her junior year … broke Ankeny High School’s single season home run record with 13 in 2011 … captured the school’s single season RBI record with 51 ... set the single season walk record with 70; the second-most all time in the state of Iowa ... also competed in track and field qualified for the Iowa High School State Track and Field Championships twice, competing in the discus ... also threw the disc at the Drake Relays.

Personal
Public relations major … daughter of Jim and Lisa … has one brother, Austin.