2012 NCAA College Station All-Regional Team
2012 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2011 All-SEC Freshman Team
2011 SEC Freshman of the Week (May 9)
2011 All-Louisiana Second Team
2011 Tiger Classic All-Tournament Team & MVP
2011 SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll

SOPHOMORE SEASON (2012)
Totaled 40 appearances, including 24 starts in centerfield ... LSU won 17 of 24 games when Heyward started in centerfield ... Checked in with a .219 batting average (14-for-64) and totaled six RBIs ... LSU was 9-2 when Heyward scored a run ... Tallied a 2-for-2 effort with two runs scored and a RBI against Louisiana Tech (Feb. 12) ... Coaxed three walks and added a RBI versus Utah State (Feb. 19) ... Pieced together a season's long three-game hitting streak (Feb. 21-25) ... Missed a 15-game stretch due to injury (March 2-21) ... Worked her way to a pinch hit walk and crossed the plate with the game's only run during a 1-0 walkoff win over Arkansas (March 30) ... Recorded pinch hit singles versus Ole Miss (April 22) and at Kentucky (May 5) ... Started all nine of LSU's postseason contests from the No. 2 spot in the lineup and collected hits in five of those games ... Picked up NCAA College Station All-Regional honors ... Knocked a leadoff single and scored the game's only run in LSU's 1-0 walkoff win over Texas State (May 18) ... Was 1-for-3 with a run scored during the winner's bracket game at No. 8 national seed Texas A&M (May 19) ... With LSU trailing 1-0 to No. 9 national seed Missouri in the rubber game of NCAA Columbia Super Regional (May 27), Heyward blasted a three-run double for her first extra-base hit of the season off MU All-American Chelsea Thomas ... Turned in a 2-for-3 performance against No. 3 national seed Arizona State (June 2) at the Woman's College World Series.

FRESHMAN SEASON (2011)
Started in centerfield for 53 of LSU's 58 games ... Secured All-SEC Freshmen and All-Louisiana Second-Team honors ... Compiled a team-leading .294 batting average (45-for-153), scored a team-high 39 runs, drew a team-best 28 walks and added a team-leading 23 stolen bases ... LSU won 25 of 27 games when Heyward scored a run ... Scored multiple runs on 10 occasions ... Her 23 stolen bases were sixth-best in the SEC ... Provided 11 multi-hit games to rank second on the team ... Batted in the leadoff spot in 46 of 53 appearances ... Spent the first 34 games of 2011 with over a .300 batting clip (Feb. 11-April 2) ... Went 7-for-17, scored 11 runs and swiped six steals to garner Tiger Classic All-Tournament Team and MVP accolades (Feb. 11-13) ... Missed a five-game stretch (Feb. 18-23) due to injury ... Added a quartet of four-game hitting streaks (Feb. 18-26, March 9-12, April 20-23 and May 20-22) ... Was 2-for-4 with a triple and run scored versus No. 3 Arizona (Feb. 25) ... Tacked on hits in both games of doubleheader against No. 2 Florida (March 9) ... Went 1-for-3 with a RBI at Nicholls State (March 23) ... Scored runs in all three games of the Arkansas series (April 1-3) ... Was 2-for-4 with two runs scored at McNeese State (April 13) ... Recorded hits in nine of her last 12 outings since returning to the top spot of the lineup (April 27-May 22) ... Earned the SEC Freshman of the Week award (May 9) after she scored five runs and collected a  .700 on-base percentage during South Carolina series (May 6-8) ... Hit safely in all four games of NCAA College Station Regional (May 20-22), including a pair of multi-hit efforts during elimination wins over Sacred Heart (May 21) and Syracuse (May 21) ... Also added a RBI and scored a run in those wins. 
 
HIGH SCHOOL
Four-year letterwinner for Bill Kapp at Rosemont High School ... Team earned first playoff berth during her freshman season and won its first playoff game as a junior ... Earned All-League First Team and All-Metro honors in 2008-09 ... Set program records for batting average and stolen bases ... Member of Student Government and the Principal's List ... Recruited by Cal and Stanford ... Also lettered in track.

PERSONAL
Daughter of Earl and Mavis Heyward ... Born on August 27, 1992 ... Has one brother, Spencer (18) and one sister, Stephanie (15) ... Majoring in sociology with a criminology concentration.