Softball
- Title:
- Coordinator of Player Development
- Email:
- aloza@athletics.msstate.edu
Former Bulldog pitcher Alyssa Loza was promoted to a full-time role as coordinator of player development following the 2024 season. She spent the previous three years on the Bulldogs’ staff as a graduate assistant and a player development fellow after playing three seasons at State from 2019-21.
In her role Loza manages biometric and performance data for the Bulldog softball team. Mississippi State makes use of multiple data collection systems throughout practice and team workouts including Rapsodo, Blast and Yakkertech. Loza also serves as the coaching staff’s liaison with the Bulldogs’ sports science department and the athlete engineering department on campus. Additionally, she helps with State’s recruiting operation, tracking prospects’ metrics and maintaining scouting records.
In the summer of 2024, Loza gained experience at the professional level, serving as a batting practice pitcher for Athletes Unlimited’s Championship season in Rosemont, Illinois.
As a fellow, she also assisted with travel planning while managing player performance data. While in graduate school, Loza assisted with travel preparation and equipment orders along with serving as an extra arm for live batting practice and assisting with the pitching staff’s fielding development. In 2022, Loza helped the Bulldog pitching staff turn in an impressive season with just three errors in 64 games. She assisted with pitch charting and opponent scouting as the Bulldogs reached their first Super Regional in program history.
In her final collegiate season, Loza was a weapon out of the bullpen, collecting six saves, which ranked third in the nation. She was just the fourth Bulldog in program history to record six or more saves in a year. The month of May was especially strong for the fifth-year senior as she picked up five saves and a win in nine appearances with a 2.37 ERA.
Loza led all Bulldog pitchers with 21 relief appearances and struck out 44 batters in 54.0 innings.
In a shortened 2020 season, she came on in relief in three games and made four starts while allowing just three earned runs, which was tied for fifth in the SEC.
Loza transferred to MSU from Arizona State for the 2019 campaign. She made 23 appearances in the circle over her debut season with the Bulldogs, including nine starts, and posted an 8-2 record with one save. She tossed five complete games, including two shutouts and the third perfect game in MSU history. Loza won seven consecutive games over her junior campaign, which was tied for 10th in Mississippi State single-season history and allowed a team-low 22 walks, the eighth-fewest walks allowed in MSU single-season history.
She pitched in 16 contests over two years at Arizona State with a 0.58 ERA as a sophomore and a team-leading 1.36 ERA as a freshman.
Loza has international experience as a member of the Mexican National Team and Junior National Team and competed at the 2017 Softball World Cup and Junior World Championships.
She was a three-time member of the SEC Honor Roll in her Bulldog career and graduated with dual bachelor’s degrees in marketing and management in May 2021. She completed her master’s in sports administration at Mississippi State in 2023.
