Every high school has one.

The Big Man On Campus. Except at Academy at the Lakes, Lexi Kilfoyl’s making people rethink the popular phrase.

“The top male on a campus should be called Big Woman On Campus, I’m just saying,” AATL softball coach Diane Stephenson said.

 “There is a standard for everyone to set, like Big Man On Campus,” Kilfoyl said, “but it doesn’t always have to be a big man. It can always be a big woman.”

And why not this young woman? She helped lead the Wildcats to their first state softball championship. She is Florida’s reigning Gatorade Player of the Year. And she recently got an invite to the USA Softball Junior National Team Selection Trials.

“Great athletes, and I would definitely put Lexi in that category, they don’t think they’re great,” Stephenson said. “They’re humble. They keep working. They know somebody out there’s better. They know that this is a gift.”

But don’t tell Lexi how great she is.

 “I see myself, more, as just as everyone else because I’m not one to like seek attention,” Kilfoyl said.

At Academy at the Lakes, Lexi sees herself as just another student, only this Wildcat stands six feet tall and has a mean rise ball.

“She earns it every single day. Lexi’s one of eight young ladies on our team  that have a 4.0 GPA,” Stephenson said. “She understands that every part of her life is 100 percent and everything she does is 100 percent.”

That effort is evident, especially on the mound, because that’s her comfort zone.

“It’s somewhere I can get my mind off of everything,” Kilfoyl said. “If I have a bad day, I can leave it all out on the field and my mind just clears away from everything.”

She was simply the best last season, but for Lexi, best isn’t good enough.

“She knows that there’s room to grow and every day she approaches practice or whatever her workout and her goal is to get better,” Stephenson said. “Big Woman On Campus. Lexi Kilfoyl.”