“Oh man, yes!” Coach Jen told Line Drive Softball’s Brentt Eads. “Maylee is a star and someday you’ll be seeing her at the Women’s College World Series!”

Her club and school coaches are equally strong in their praise for the player behind the plate.

On the travel ball side, Jamie Beck, who is Maylee’s head coach with the Athletics Gold – Tamborra organization, believes it’s the young athlete’s will to win that makes her one to watch in the future.

“Maylee Young is the epitome of hard work and dedication,” Coach Beck begins. “Her passion to become the best version of oneself is unwavering and, with her work ethic and elite IQ of the game, Maylee makes a huge impact to our roster.”

“She’s a sweet kid who’s never met a stranger and is an amazing teammate we all love. Maylee will undoubtedly earn an opportunity to compete in the WCWS one day so coaches, be on the lookout for this kid!”

For her A’s club team, Maylee catches about 75 percent of the time, but when she isn’t catching, she’s also playing the corners or outfield as needed. Offensively, she ended up batting .368 with an on-base percentage of. 600 last Fall while leading her squad in doubles, triples and stolen bases.

For school ball, the young student-athlete is currently at White Plains Elementary but in a few years will compete at White Plains High where she’ll be coached by Lex Hull-Muncher, who played at South Carolina and Jacksonville State in her college days and has been followed to the DI lever by her younger sister, Riley Hull, who now competes at Mississippi State.

That’s in the future, but to kick off 2024, Maylee impressed all those who watched her at the Jen Schro Retreat where, per the event’s head:

“Maylee kept telling everybody: ‘Let’s go, y’all, we can do, this push through and y’all got it!’ and often would let out a big yell of: ‘LET’S GOOO!!!’” 

Her father, Kyle Laymon, a coach on the club scene, commented on the ego boost the catcher enjoyed while at the January softball event.

“It made Maylee feel excited, happy, emotional and more confident in herself,” Coach Laymon explained, “knowing that if someone like Jen Schro and her team spoke so highly of Maylee and about her future, she realized that her dreams of playing college softball were very realistic!”

Though a few years away from high school ball and eventually the college scene, Maylee already has some catching favorites she admires.

“At the college level, I love the game of Kinzie Hansen of Oklahoma and Jessie Blaine at Mississippi State,” she concludes. “Team-wise, I like UCLA, Oklahoma and Auburn.”

— Brentt Eads, Line Drive Softball