A mainstay on the diamond for the Green River High School softball team the past three seasons will be taking her talents to the D1 level in 2025.

Kodi Jean Allred, a senior at Mountain View High School and a shortstop/catcher for the Green River Lady Wolves, signed her letter of intent last week to play for the University of Montana.

“Montana has always held a special place in my heart,” Allred said. “We went to Montana for a baseball tournament for my brothers when I was younger, and I just fell in love with the natural beauty. This past summer, me and my mom went to a tournament up in Kalispell, and on the way back, I told my mom, ‘I’m going to school here.’ I guess it’s been a dream of mine since I was a kid to live in Montana, now I get to play the game I love there as well.”

The Lady Griz, based in Missoula, Montana, play in the Big Sky Conference. Montana posted a 17-33 record in 2024, and new head coach Steph Ewing said she expects Allred to be a good fit for the program.

“It’s definitely a mutual excitement on all parties,” Ewing said. “What a fantastic young lady, and a great family — we’re really excited to have a dynamic athlete like her in a Griz uniform.”

A 3-time All-State and All-Conference selection for the Lady Wolves, Allred finished her 2024 campaign with a .573 batting average, including 13 doubles, four triples, three home runs and 28 RBIs. A patient hitter, Allred struck out just five times all season.

In the field, Allred finished with a .978 fielding percentage, committing just three errors on 134 chances, numbers not lost on her new coach, who witnessed Allred’s fielding prowess first-hand at a U of M prospect camp.

“The kid plays like Pete Rose — she’s just all-out, all the time,” Ewing said. “She has that really high softball IQ, and she made some phenomenal plays — when we were in our camp, she made some incredible plays at shortstop, just on the run. She can throw from multiple arm slots, she did a great job of leading from behind the plate — the catcher has to be the quarterback, and she handled that well. To me, she’s someone who’s coming here with a really high ceiling. Once we get her in our player-development program, I think she’s going to continue to grow offensively as a player and, for me as a coach, that’s what you’re looking for.”

Allred grew up with an intense love of baseball — her older brothers Gus and Hank were always playing, so naturally, she wanted to play, as well. The two brothers eventually went on to become standouts for the Evanston Outlaws, and the youngest Allred was determined to follow suit. She played Little League baseball in the Bridger Valley, cutting her teeth on the fields of Sweetwater County, Uinta County and Kemmerer, before following her brothers to Evanston and the Outlaws baseball program.

“Baseball was the very beginning of my whole journey,” she said. “I started playing in Bridger Valley Little League when I was 9 with my two older brothers. Just like them I moved onto the Little League program in Evanston. From there, I joined the Outlaws. When I played for them, I told myself I’d be the first woman to play D1 baseball! However, I took a turn in my life when I decided to play for a small softball program. My first ever softball team changed my mind entirely and I fell in love with the game. From there I began telling myself I’m going to play D1 softball.”

In addition to playing for the Lady Wolves, Allred has honed her skills playing for club teams, such as CVSC, out of Logan, Utah, and Wicked 307, out of Gillette. If one were to add up all the miles Allred and her family have traveled to pursue her passion, a conservative estimate would put you over 125,000 miles.

Did we mention she also plays basketball?

“For her to be able to come and do softball stuff every day [at Montana] is going to be the biggest change for her right off the bat,” Ewing said, laughing. “She travels hours and hours and hours to be able to play the game that she loves, so I’m gonna have to kick her out of our indoor cages, I know it. It will be like, ‘You’re going to need to go to bed, or go do your schoolwork.’ Because she’s not going to know what to do with having four indoor cages readily available for her all the time. It’s going to be like Christmas every day for her.”

Asked her impression of her new team following her official campus visit last fall,