Katey Satcher was one of the most successful female athletes at Newberry College in her time playing basketball and softball for the Lady Indians from 1997 to 2002.
She played basketball for her freshman year and part of her sophomore year before a knee injury limited her to one sport.
Katey played 205 consecutive games at shortstop for the Lady Indians’ softball team, only missing the first eight games of her freshman season because of basketball season.
She was First Team All-South Atlantic Conference in 2001 and 2002 and Second Team All-South Atlantic Conference in 2000.
In her senior season she led the conference with a .430 batting average, six triples and sixteen walks.
She finished her career with a .380 batting average, 84 RBIs, 45 walks and 21 stolen bases in 22 attempts.
Katey was also a standout in the classroom, becoming the first Newberry student-athlete to be named a CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American. She was also an eight-time honoree on the South Atlantic Conference Honor Roll and was a 2002 nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year.
She was a four-year Dean’s List member and received both the W.L. Laval and Algernon Sydney Sullivan awards in 2002.
After graduating summa cum laude in 2002 with a degree in psychology, Katey went on to receive her master’s in speech language pathology from the University of South Carolina, graduating with the most outstanding student award in 2004.
She now lives in Georgetown with her husband Jase Felts and daughters Satcher and Mary Miller.
