Arizona softball adds North Texas catcher Elizabeth Moffitt
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Top catchers were flying off the board. Samantha Swan went to Texas. Kennedy Proctor went to Oklahoma State. Karlee Ford gave her pledge to Alabama. Arizona has finally joined them by adding former North Texas catcher Elizabeth Moffitt.
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Moffitt joins fellow former Mean Green Madison Conley as future Wildcats. The pair and fellow transfer Ryley Harrison have all officially signed.
Moffitt started her career at Texas Tech but redshirted her only season there. She found a great deal of success after transferring to UNT, where she has spent the last three seasons. She will be a redshirt senior during the 2027 season.
Like her former and future teammate, Moffitt was named All-American Conference First Team in 2026. She was the first UNT catcher to ever earn first team all-conference honors. That came a year after being named NFCA All-Region Second Team for the Central region.
Moffitt set career highs in in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, hits, home runs, and total bases. She led the team with a .390 average, a 1.196 OPS, and a .510 on-base percentage. She was second behind Conley with 12 home runs and a .723 slugging percentage. Her nine doubles were fifth on the Mean Green. She also had one triple. She walked 22 times against 14 strikeouts.
Moffitt also had a stellar year behind the plate. She caught 12 of 24 attempted base stealers. She had 9.54 defensive runs saved, 4.24 framing runs saved, 2.60 stolen base runs saved, and 2.73 blocking runs saved. All except the framing runs saved exceed the high numbers of Sydney Stewart. Moffitt was in the top 150 of Division I in DRS.
Over her career, Moffitt has a .336 average, .590 slugging percentage, and 1.013 OPS. Those numbers have taken a steady rise over her three-year college career.
She has hit 19 doubles, two triples, and 22 home runs. She has 55 strikeouts against 54 walks. She dramatically dropped her strikeouts this year, going from 21 as a sophomore to 14 as a junior. She has appeared in 133 games with 127 starts.
Moffitt has faced several NCAA postseason-caliber Power 4 and top mid-major teams in her three years at UNT. Those include Texas Tech, Louisiana Lafayette, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, South Florida, Georgia Tech, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Arizona, Missouri, Northwestern, Auburn, and Texas A&M. She played in a total of 32 games and made 32 starts against this level of competition.
Her best year against top competition came as a redshirt sophomore in 2025. She hit .314 with nine RBI and two home runs in 12 games. She had a slugging percentage of .514 and an OPS of .899 in 35 at-bats and 40 plate appearances.
While her numbers came down a bit against NCAA postseason-caliber teams in 2026, she had a strong stretch in the middle of the season when she faced Texas Tech twice and Oklahoma once. She went 5-for-9 with two RBI in those three games. Over the entire season, she hit .250 with a .357 slugging percentage and .607 OPS against this level of competition. She drove in four runs and hit one home run. She struck out five times without drawing a walk.
Moffitt comes in as the No. 23 overall transfer prospect and No. 3 available catcher according to 64 Analytics. That gives Arizona three players ranked in its top 25. Former South Alabama pitcher Ryley Harrison is ranked 18th and Conley comes in just behind her at 19th.
Softball America is also fairly high on the Arizona transfers, putting all three in its top 50. That outlet has Harrison ranked 19th, Conley at 38th, and Moffitt coming in at No. 40.
At the catching position, 64 Analytics ranks former ASU catcher Swan first and former Iowa State catcher Ford second. Softball America has Swan as the best transfer catcher at No. 10 overall, Proctor second at No. 21 overall, former BYU catcher/outfielder Ilove’a Brittingham third at No. 30 overall, former Arizona catcher Emma Kavanagh fourth at No. 31, and Ford fifth at No. 36. Moffit comes in as the sixth-best transfer catcher according to SA.
Moffitt spent her prep career in California and Texas. She started at Clovis North, the same school that produced former Wildcat pitcher Ryan Maddox, but finished her high school playing time at Prosper High in Texas.