Meet the Managers: Rebekkah Adicoff

STARKVILLE – On her very first trip to the state of Mississippi, Rebekkah Adicoff decided it was where she would make her home.
 
The California native had never been to the South. In fact, she’d never heard of Mississippi State until learning that the coaching staff would be at a tournament her travel ball team was playing in. But once she heard about MSU, it seemed like it might be the perfect fit.
 
“I ended up in Starkville because I was looking for schools that had an agriculture program,” she said. “Six months before I went to college I visited, and I absolutely fell in love with the atmosphere and told everyone that I was going to school in Mississippi.”
 
Adicoff had grown up playing softball since she was in the fourth grade. She made the varsity team as a freshman in high school and eventually won a division title in 2019. Her travel ball career began during her sophomore year, but she wasn’t ready to be done with the game when the COVID-19 pandemic ended her senior season.
 
“I came to school and knew that I wanted to get involved in softball because it was a big part of my life, and I wanted to continue that in college,” Adicoff said. “At first, I thought I would just play intramurals and then I decided to reach out and see what I could potentially do with the actual team.”
 
After exchanging a few emails with the staff, Adicoff came out to a late fall practice. For her first day, she was asked to help chart the team’s live at-bats as a way for her to learn the players’ names.
 
She liked it, but things were winding down for the fall. Adicoff went home, but her interest never faded. When the team came back from winter break, she was there and has been there ever since.
 
Most of Adicoff’s duties are centered around charting pitches and logging the results from a radar gun behind home plate. At practices, she might feed a machine in the batting cages, but when the team hits live off their own pitchers, she’s back to charting the pitch sequences.
 
Her role has allowed her to travel with the team and visit places she’d never been. Adicoff has a goal to visit all 50 states, and softball has helped fill in her map.
 
“After this summer I have been to 26 states, and I’ll be 20 years old in a couple of weeks,” Adicoff said. “Thanks to softball I have been able to go to Tennessee and Kentucky….