Brittany Gomez

Classroom

Since stepping on campus, Brittany Gomez has maintained a 3.0 GPA throughout her college career while devoting 25-plus hours every week to softball. She was honored as a member of the Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team in 2012-13 and honored as a member of the 2014-15 All-Big 12 Academic Second Team. In addition she was given both the 2014 and 2015 Iowa State Spring Scholar-Athlete Award.

Character

Gomez is the type of student-athlete every coach wants to teach, every teammate wants to play with, and every fan wants to see succeed. When you ask people around Iowa State athletics about Gomez, the most common phrase you’ll hear is that she is the model of what you want in a student-athlete. If you search the Iowa State Softball history and records, the name Brittany Gomez appears 44 times. Despite already being arguably the best player in Iowa State history, she has constantly remained two things: humble and hard-working. Head Coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler had this to say about Brittany: “She is the hardest-working player that we have. She leads by example at all times both on the field and off the field and has always remained humble. I just can’t imagine someone with more character than Brittany. Doing the right thing and working hard is the absolute most important thing to her, and that is the way that she lives every day.”

Community

Gomez has consistently displayed a willingness and a desire to participate in and contribute to the Iowa State and Ames community. In 2013, she helped put on the Octagon for the Arts in which she cleaned, organized and served food. Every summer from 2009-2012, Brittany participated in Relay for Life, a cancer fundraising event that helps people fighting cancer around the world. All four years she has been at Iowa State, Gomez has helped organize the “Cy-Cans” event collecting canned good for the Food Bank of Iowa. She also has participated in the Adopt-a-Family program all four years of college. In doing so, Gomez helped raise money and shop for Christmas gifts for families in need. She also served as Iowa State’s Big 12 SAAC Female Representative in 2014 and 2015.

Gomez has had a particular interest in helping people with mental and physical disabilities pursue athletics. She has participated in Special Olympics Bowling in 2013, 2014 and 2015, as well as volunteering for the Special Olympics state volleyball competition. She also has volunteered as a goal judge for “goalball” for the United States Association of Blind Athletes.

Competition

Gomez is already Iowa State’s all-time steals leader with her 86 stolen bases, 38 ahead of her closest competitor on ISU’s all-time record list. In 2015, Gomez took down the Iowa State single-season record for hits. Gomez finished with 79, two ahead of the long-time record of 77 posted in 1988. Gomez had just narrowly missed breaking the record during her sophomore campaign, piling up 75 hits that season. Entering her senior campaign, Gomez had scored 128 career runs. The previous school record was 120. At the plate, Gomez is currently atop ISU’s all-time batting average record book with a .394 career batting average, 37 points ahead of her closest competitor. Gomez’s 2015 batting average of .425 ranks second on Iowa State’s single-season list, and Gomez is one of only two Cyclones in school history to hit over .400 for an entire season. Gomez currently ranks seventh on the Big 12’s all-time career batting average list at .394. Following her record-breaking junior season in which she hit .425, Gomez will look to move her way up the list. Gomez also is just 34 hits, 12 stolen bases and two triples away from joining the top 10 Big 12 career records in each of those categories.

Gomez won a gold medal in the 2015 Pan American Games playing with Team USA Baseball in Toronto, Canada. It was the first women’s national baseball team to play in the Pan American Games.