Six hours after her last game on the Wichita State softball team, Mackenzie Wright was still in uniform when the team arrived back home in Wichita.
The Shockers had just concluded arguably the most successful season in program history — ending with a 6-4 loss at Arkansas in a NCAA regional final — but Wright didn't want to accept that it was over.
Wright, a senior from Midwest City, Okla., came to the program with raw potential and left as the 2018 American Athletic Conference Player of the Year and a three-time first-team all-conference selection, just the fourth player in program history to accomplish either feat.