Melissa Mayeux
French softball and baseball player and softball coach (born 1998)
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Mélissa Mayeux (born 2 November 1998) is a French softball and baseball player and coach. She is a coach for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers and has been drafted into the Women's Pro Baseball League.
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| Born: November 2, 1998 Louviers, Eure, France | |||||||||||||||
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Baseball career
Mayeux began playing baseball at the age of four, joining her older brother. As a youth, she played for Montigny Cougars and Barracudas de Montpellier.[1]
Mayeux received international attention in 2015 for being the first female player to be eligible to sign with a Major League Baseball team when she was added to the league's international registration list.[2][3][4] She played on France's national under-18 baseball team in 2015 and 2016 and the women's national baseball team in the 2019 European Championship, where she led the tournament with 13 runs scored and, as a pitcher, one save.[1][5]
In 2025, she was selected by New York in the 25th round of the inaugural Women's Pro Baseball League draft.[6][7][8]
Softball career
Mayeux played college softball for Miami Dade College in 2018 and 2019 before transferring to the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns in 2020.[9][10] In 2022, she was the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year. That summer, she played for the Smash It Sports Vipers of Women's Professional Fastpitch.[11]
Mayeux played for the French national softball team in European championships in 2015, 2019, 2024, and 2025.[1][12] In 2025, she played for Comanches de Saint-Raphaël, winning the club European cup.[13] She also played for the team in the French national softball league.[14]
In early 2023, Mayeux became the varsity softball coach of Lafayette Christian Academy.[15][16] That August, she became an assistant coach for the Northwestern State Lady Demons.[17] In 2025, she was an assistant coach for the Texas–Corpus Christi Islanders.[18] That October, she was named a coach for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.[19]