Destin Howard

Position:
RHP
Height:
5-9
Class:
Sophomore
B/T:
R/R
Hometown:
Macon, Ga.
High School:
Jones County HS
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Career Honors and Awards
• 2024-25 SAAC President
• 2025 SEC Softball Community Service Team
• 2025 Clifford Lewis Leadership Award
• 2025 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll
• 2024 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
• 2022-23 SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll

2025 // Junior
Named to the 2025 SEC Softball Community Service Team… Honored with the Clifford Lewis Leadership Award at the 2025 Dawgs Choice Awards… Appeared in 14 games, making one start… Finished the season 0-1 with a 5.92 ERA… Struck out six batters in 13 innings pitched… Member of the 2025 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll.

2024 // Sophomore
Made 11 appearances in the circle including one start against Purdue (2/11)… Concluded the season with a 1.17 ERA and a 2-0 record… Pitched 18.0 innings including a career-long three innings twice (Radford, Dartmouth)… Her two wins on the season came against Radford (2/24) and Georgia Southern (3/20)… Struck out a season-best two batters against Mercer (4/3)… Entered to pitch in the sixth inning against Missouri (4/19), appearing in her first-ever conference game and pitched one and a third scoreless, hitless innings with a strikeout… Member of SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll.

2023 // Freshman
Made 10 appearances in the circle as a true freshman including one start against UMass (2/11)… Worked 14 total innings, allowing six earned runs on nine hits… Struck out five batters… Named one of '55 Freshmen Names to Know Heading into 2023' by D1Softball… Member of SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll.

High School
Was a four-year letter winner in the circle at Jones County High School… Was named region pitcher of the year, MVP, GDAC Player of the Year, first team all-state, and the Greyhound award winner following the 2020 campaign… She guided Jones County to a state championship that season with 172 strikeouts… She tallied north of 200 strikeouts as a senior… She helped Jones County to just shy of 100 wins in four seasons…She plays club for Mojo-Fischer.

Personal
Daughter of Tonya and Robert Howard… She has four sisters: Mijah, Ciara, Nakia, and Brenay… Brenay plays softball at Calfin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina… Her cousin Terrance Gore is a member of the Atlanta Braves organization… Born March 8, 2004… Majoring in Marketing.