We’re counting down the top 10 sports stories at Washington High School in the 2023-2024 academic year at KCII. At number 10 is softball player Leighton Salazar capturing another school record.

Salazar set a new single-season program best with 36 stolen bases this summer, breaking Lucy Libe’s previous record set back in 2008. It’s the fourth single-season school record that Salazar now owns, breaking Washington records for hits, batting average and runs scored as a freshman in 2023.

Salazar, who now owns 88 stolen bases total in her career, just picked up her second straight all-state selection in Class 3A from the Iowa Girls Coaches Association, receiving second team honors and a first-team All-Southeast Conference nod.

The sophomore was also an all-district selection after she led the Demons with a .524 batting average and scored a team-high 54 runs, propelling Washington to a second straight season with 24 wins.

Be listening over the next two weeks as the countdown of KCII’s Top 10 Washington Sports Stories from the last year continues, and find the stories as their spot on the countdown is revealed at KCIIradio.com.