They live over 2,300 miles apart, but Brooke Mannon and Ryan Maddox have something in common besides being incoming freshmen pitchers at Arizona. The pair of hurlers were named 2022-23 Gatorade Player of the Year for their home states on Saturday. Maddox took the award for the state of California while Mannon was Ohio’s honoree.
Maddox is a 5-foot-3 lefthander from Fresno who spent her high school career at Clovis North. In her senior season, she had an ERA of 0.64 in 152 innings. She went 21-1, striking out 281 and allowing 65 hits and 22 walks.