Melissa Mayeux
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| Melissa Mayeux | |||||||||||||||
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| Born: November 2, 1998 Louviers, Eure, France | |||||||||||||||
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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.
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]