Unlimited Softball
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O’Toole
Amanda Chidester
Anissa Urtez
Aleshia Ocasio
Kiki Stokes-O’Connor
Aliyah
Sashel Palacios
Harrell
Dejah Mulipola
Morgan Zerkle
Hannah Flippen
Caleigh Clifton
Gwen Svekis
Amanda Lorenz
Jazmyn Jackson
Sydney Sherrill
- Sahvanna Jaquish
Haylie McCleney
Tori Vidales
Harshman
Piancastelli
#35 - Nicole Rangel-Mendes
- DJ Sanders
- Alyssa Denham
- Jordan Roberts
- Janae Jefferson
- Rachel Lewis
- Carrie Eberle
- Mia Davidson
- Lilli Piper
- Bubba Nickles
- Danielle Watson
- Peyton St. George
- Sam Fischer
- Hayley Busby
- Alysen Febrey
- Mariah Mazon
- Shannon Saile
- Courtney Gano
- Andrea Filler
- Sara Groenewegen
- Rylee Bayless
- Aubrey Leach
- Sydney Littlejohn Watkins
- Greta Cecchetti
- Taylor McQuillin
- Nadia Taylor
- Sis Bates
Jon Patricof Co-Founder/CEO
Jonathan Soros Co-Founder
Andrew Schloss Creative Director
Matt Biggers
Senior Director, Marketing
Laura Zambrana Marketing Manager
Jake Williams
Cheri Kempf Senior Vice President
Stephanie Kane Sports Broadcast Video Editor
Eric Rhew Media Relations Manager
Holly Scott Production Manager
Hilary Meyer Senior Vice President of Impact
Jazmyn Jackson Manager, Civic Leadership
Jenny Jeffries Senior Director, Social & Content
Hope Ballard Junior Producer
Krystina Brown Social Media Producer
Savanna Collins Digital Media Reporter
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Colton Siebert Financial Business Analyst
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Senior Director, Special Projects
Director of Sport, Basketball
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Athletes Unlimited is a new model of professional sports where athletes are decision makers and individual players are champions of team sports. We lit erally change the game with faster play and fluid teams, delivering next-level competition and engagement in which every moment counts. Beginning in 2020 with Women’s Softball and following with Women’s Volleyball (2021), Women’s Lacrosse (2021), Women’s Basketball (2022) and AUX Softball (2022), Athletes Unlimited will build the next generation of both athletes and fans.
Our athletes are in charge of their team and league decisions, and of their individual success. We reboot timetables, rosters, and gameplay to create fast and exciting competition that speaks to contemporary sports fans, bring ing them close to the action and the athletes in games where every moment counts. We incorporate the player-centric model that fans love about fantasy sports. We use digital media platforms and cutting-edge technology to con nect fans deeply to athletes at the top of their game on and off the field, and to the game itself.
A draft will be held prior to each series of games with the top four players on the individual leaderboard serving as the team captains. The captains will then fill their rosters by selecting 14 other players. Each draft will be held on the Monday prior to each week’s games.
Uniform colors will be assigned based on the team captain’s rank on the leaderboard. The top-scoring captain’s team will wear gold, while the sec ond-highest point scorer’s team dons orange jerseys. The third-place team will wear blue jerseys during each series and the fourth-place team wears purple jerseys.
Each team will consist of 15 players, including four pitchers, two catchers, three middle infielders, three corner infielders and three outfielders.
Game Duration: Each Athletes Unlimited Softball game will consist of seven (7) innings regardless of the game’s score. If the visiting team scores in the top of the seventh inning but trails in the game, the home team will bat in the bottom of the inning in an attempt to win the inning points.
Extra Innings: Team inning points and individual stat points are not earned in extra innings. Only inning points that have carried over from the seventh inning and team game win points can be accumulated.
Captain’s Challenges: Each captain will be permitted two (2) video review challenges per game, which will be sent to the replay official for a final deci sion. A challenge must be indicated by one of the two designated team rep resentatives either verbally or visually before the next pitch is thrown, before all members of the infield have left their positions and fair territory, or before the umpires have left the field of play. A challenge is indicated visually by tapping the top of the head with one hand.
In addition, umpires are allowed to initiate a video review of any call in the reviewable plays list once the game reaches the sixth inning.
The following plays can be reviewed:
1. Whether a batted ball called fair, is fair or foul.
2. Whether a batted ball called a ground-rule double or home run is fair or foul.
3. Whether a batted ball called foul that could result in a ground-rule double or home run is fair or foul.
4. Decide scoring players at home plate, including collisions (illegal and/or malicious slides), obstruction by a defensive player or timing plays
5. Force tag/play calls
6. Hit-by-Pitch calls
7. Placement of Runners
8. With runners on base, a no-catch call can be changed to a catch only if it results in a third out. With no runners on base, a no-catch call can be changed to a catch at any time.
9. If the ball left the field of play on a home run
10. All aspects of a scoring play or timing play
11. Obstruction and interference at any base, only if the play in question re sults or would result in the third out of an inning and relates to a scoring/ timing play
12. Malicious/flagrant contact
13. Deciding on a foul tip/foul ball at the plate, including a dropped strike
While traditional softball statistics are kept during each Athletes Unlimited Softball game, players earn individual points by accumulating those statistics. Points accumulated by statistics, inning and/or game wins and MVP selec tions are used to create an individual leaderboard, which determines cap tains for each week and the individual champion at the end of the season.
Points are awarded at the following increments for hitters during the game: Single +10 Points Double +20 Points Triple +30 Points Home Run +40 Points Stolen Base +10 Points Caught Stealing -10 Points Base on Balls +8 Points Hit By Pitch +8 Points Sacrifice Fly/Bunt +10 Points
In addition, pitchers can earn individual points for the following statistics: Out Recorded +4 Points Earned Run Allowed -10 Points
Athletes will be awarded 10 individual points if their team wins a single inning. If the teams score the same number of runs in an inning, the points carry over to the next inning.
Athletes on the winning team in each game will be awarded 50 individu al points toward the individual leaderboard. The total score determines the overall game winner, which means a team may lose multiple innings, but still win the overall game.
A total of three MVPs will be selected following each game by the athletes with the top player earning 60 points. The second MVP receives 40 points, while the third MVP claims 20 points.
At the conclusion of the 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball season, medals will be presented to the top four finishers on the leaderboard in addition to the Defensive Player of the Year presented by GEICO and the Rookie of the Year. An All-Defensive Team will also be honored as part of the closing ceremony.
Athletes are compensated in three ways during an Athletes Unlimited season, including base pay, win bonuses (inning and game wins) and a leaderboard bonus. The leaderboard bonus also includes an additional donation equal to half of the athlete’s leaderboard bonus to their selected cause partner.
The top four players on the season’s final leaderboard in addition to the De fensive Player of the Year presented by GEICO will receive a medal designed and fabricated for Athletes Unlimited by Lisa Issenberg, founder of Kiitellä, inc. The front face of the media represents the identity of Athletes Unlimited, while the back face of the medal leans into the specific sport, the year, loca tion and words about Athletes Unlimited’s vision, mission and values on and off the field - Excellence in Community and Leadership.
The Book of Unlimited was designed, handmade and bound for Athletes Un limited. The book weighs nearly 25 pounds, measures approximately 12” by 18” and contains nearly 500 pages. The champion, along with all who com peted, are inscribed into the book. In addition, The Book of Unlimited also contains a history of achievements in Athletes Unlimited, including stories, highlights and events.
The book is opened during the Opening Ceremony for each season and is closed after the champion is named and her name is inscribed into the book. The tradition began during Athletes Unlimited Softball’s inaugural season in 2020.
Aspiration is committed to planting 10 trees for every run scored during the 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball season.
Catcher Dejah Mulipola became the third champion in the history of Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season play after moving past pitcher Alyssa Denham on the leaderboard on the final day of the 2022 campaign. The former Arizona standout won the title after compiling 1,782 points in 15 games.
Season Player
2020 Softball Cat Osterman
2021 Volleyball Jordan Larson
2021 Lacrosse Taylor Cummings
2021 Softball Aleshia Ocasio
2022 Basketball Tianna Hawkins
2022 Volleyball Bethania De La Cruz
2022 AUX Softball Danielle O’Toole
2022 Lacrosse Taylor Moreno
2022 Softball Dejah Mulipola
Middle infielder Hannah Flippen was named GEICO Defensive Player of the Year in a vote of the league’s players and members of the Unlimited Club. Flippen became the second middle infielder in three years to earn the award after Anissa Urtez claimed the honor during the 2021 campaign.
Season Player
2020 Haylie McCleney (OF)
2021 Anissa Urtez (MIF)
2022 Hannah Flippen (MIF)
Headlined by GEICO Defensive Player of the Year Hannah Flippen, a group of 10 play ers were selected to the 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team in a vote of the league’s players. In addition, there were five players named to the All-Defensive Team for the second straight season.
Pitcher Danielle O’Toole
Catcher Taylor Edwards
Middle Infielders Hannah Flippen *, Anissa Urtez *
Corner Infielders Amanda Chidester *, Lilli Piper
Outfielders Haylie McCleney *, Bubba Nickles, Aliyah Andrews *
Utility Kelsey Harshman * - Repeat Selection
Outfielder Shannon Rhodes was named the 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball Rookie of the Year in a vote of the league’s players. Rhodes finished the season in sixth place on the leaderboard with 1,564 points, while her 524 stat points were good for second in the league. She also tied for the league’s top spot with 15 runs scored while blasting eight home runs.
2021 Carrie Eberle (P)
2022 Shannon Rhodes (OF)
Outfielder Nicole Rangel-Mendes and corner infielder DJ Sanders finished the 2022 season as the league leaders in win points. Rangel-Mendes and Sanders each com piled an 11-4 game record during the campaign while securing the inning win points for 65-of-105 possible innings.
WIN POINTS LEADERS • 2022 CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
No. Player Game Wins Inning Wins*
1,200 Nicole Rangel-Mendes 11 65
1,200 DJ Sanders 11 65
1,160 Sam Fischer 10 66
1,160 Aubrey Leach 11 61
1,140 Alyssa Denham 9 69 * - Includes winning points for rollover innings
Pitcher Rachel Garcia, catcher Dejah Mulipola and outfielder Amanda Lorenz closed the 2022 campaign as the only players in the league with 200 or more MVP points. The trio was among a group of six players to earn a league-high five MVP awards during the season. Mulipola paced the league with three MVP 1 honors.
MVP POINTS LEADERS • 2022 CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON No. Player MVP Honors
240 Rachel Garcia 5 200 Dejah Mulipola 5 200 Amanda Lorenz 5 180 Alyssa Denham 5 180 Haylie McCleney 4 180 Amanda Chidester 5 180 Shannon Rhodes 5
SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST Pitcher Rachel Garcia put together the highest single-week leaderboard point total of the 2022 season when she closed the campaign with 596 points in Week Five. Garcia, who finished eighth on the final leaderboard standings, also secured the fourth-highest point total in any week in the three-year history of Athletes Unlimited Softball.
MOST LEADERBOARD POINTS IN WEEK FIVE • CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON HISTORY Points Player Season
596 Rachel Garcia 2022 580 Jordan Roberts 2020 540 Anissa Urtez 2020 538 Aleshia Ocasio 2021 520 Tori Vidales 2020
MOST LEADERBOARD POINTS IN A SINGLE WEEK • CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON HISTORY Points Player Season Week
624 Cat Osterman 2020 2 604 Cat Osterman 2020 1 604 Carrie Eberle 2021 4 596 Rachel Garcia 2022 5 580 Jordan Roberts 2020 5
Catcher Dejah Mulipola and infielder Amanda Chidester served as a team captain four times during the 2022 campaign, marking the fourth and fifth times a player has been a captain four times in a single Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season. Pitcher Cat Osterman was a captain four times in the 2020 and 2021 campaigns, while catcher Sahvanna Jaquish earned a spot in the captain’s seat four times in 2021.
FOUR-TIME CAPTAINS IN A SINGLE SEASON • CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON HISTORY Player Season Record as Capt.
Cat Osterman 2020 10-2
Sahvanna Jaquish 2021 7-5 Cat Osterman 2021 6-6 Amanda Chidester 2022 4-8 Dejah Mulipola 2022 7-5
Catcher Sahvanna Jaquish finished the 2022 season with 11 career victories as a cap tain, which rank second in Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season history. Jaquish, who has been a captain seven times in her career, trails pitcher Cat Osterman for most career wins by a captain and most weeks as a captain.
MOST WEEKS AS A CAPTAIN • CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON HISTORY Weeks Player Season(s)
8 Cat Osterman 2020-21
Sahvanna Jaquish 2020-22
Aleshia Ocasio 2020-22
Amanda Chidester 2020-22
MOST VICTORIES AS A CAPTAIN • CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON HISTORY Wins Player Season(s)
16 Cat Osterman 2020-21
Sahvanna Jaquish 2020-22
Jessi Warren 2020-21
Aleshia Ocasio 2020-22
Amanda Chidester 2020-22
Week Three and Week Four marked the first times in Athletes Unlimited Softball history where a pitcher did not serve as a team captain, ending a streak of 12 straight weeks with at least one pitcher serving as a team captain. Pitcher Alyssa Denham was a team captain in Week Five.
Outfielder Haylie McCleney and infielder Amanda Chidester each tallied 500 or more leaderboard points during Week Two, marking the sixth time in league history that two or more players reached the 500-point plateau in a single week. Since the start of the 2020 campaign, a player has fashioned 500 or more points in a week 17 times.
Infielder Amanda Chidester joined pitchers Aleshia Ocasio and Cat Osterman as the only players in Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season history with multiple 500-point weeks after finishing Week Two with 508 points. Ocasio owns three career 500-point weeks, while Osterman and Chidester hit the 500-point plateau twice.
After posting just seven shutouts in the first two seasons of Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season play, teams had four shutout efforts during the 2022 campaign. Team Eberle blanked Team Ocasio by a 1-0 count on July 30 before a pair of shutouts took place on Aug. 21 with Team Chidester and Team Mulipola earning the wins. Team Denham claimed the final clean sheet with a 4-0 decision over Team Mulipola on the penultimate day of the season.
The Week Four finale doubleheader on Aug. 21 ended with a pair of shutout verdicts, signaling the first time in Athletes Unlimited Softball history that both games in a single day were decided in shutout fashion. Team Chidester blanked Team Jaquish by a 1-0 count while Team Mulipola secured a 3-0 victory over Team McCleney.
The July 30 contest between Team Eberle and Team Ocasio marked the first time in the three-year history of Athletes Unlimited Softball history where a game ended with a 1-0 score. Team Eberle scored the game’s lone run in the second inning on a RBI single by infielder Kelsey Harshman
MIGHT NEED SOME WHITE OUT FOR THAT Team McCleney and Team Chidester combined to score 25 runs in the highest-scoring game in Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season history in the first game of a doubleheader on Aug. 20. The game featured several single-game records, including:
• Team McCleney scored the most runs (20) in a single game in league history
• Outfielder Haylie McCleney set a single-game record with six at-bats
• Outfielder Amanda Lorenz accumulated six runs batted in, tying the single-game record set by Amanda Sanchez against Team Sanders on Sept. 14, 2020.
Here are some additional notes on Team McCleney’s record-setting 20-5 triumph over Team Chidester from Aug. 20:
• Team McCleney scored seven runs in the second and sixth innings.
• Every player who went to the plate reached base at least once ... In addition, every starter also registered a hit, including six starters with two or more hits.
• Team McCleney tallied 12 of its 20 runs with two outs ... Outfielder Amanda Lorenz also collected all six of her runs batted in with two outs.
• Team McCleney’s four home runs tied a league season high ... Team Zerkle belted four home runs against Team Eberle on July 31.
• Team McCleney’s nine walks were a league single-game season high.
• Team McCleney’s 17 hits equaled the most in a game this season ... Team Mulipola also had 17 hits during Week Two against Team Eberle.
• The first four hitters in Team McCleney’s lineup went 7-for-15 while scoring 10 runs with 13 runs batted in.
• Pitcher Mariah Mazon threw a season-high 5.0 innings while claiming her second victory of the season.
• Team McCleney was 20-for-30 in advancement opportunities.
Athletes Unlimited Softball players made eight appearances on ESPN SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays segment during the 2022 season. Outfielder Bubba Nickles had a pair of plays showcased to lead the league.
SPORTSCENTER TOP 10 PLAYS • 2022 CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Date Player Rank
July 30, 2022 Bubba Nickles 6
July 31, 2022 Kelsey Harshman 8 Aug. 5, 2022 Bubba Nickles 6 Aug. 6, 2022 Aliyah Andrews 2 Aug. 14, 2022 Haylie McCleney 9 Aug. 22, 2022 Lilli Piper 6 Aug. 27, 2022 Anissa Urtez 4 Aug. 27, 2022 Sis Bates 8
Infielder Amanda Chidester and pitcher Danielle O’Toole finished their professional careers during the 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season. Chidester and O’Toole, a pair of three-year Athletes Unlimited Softball veterans, end their careers among the Championship Season’s all-time leaders in several categories.
At-Bats 143 5th Runs Scored 33 T-4th Hits 52 T-3rd Triples 3 T-2nd Home Runs 17 1st Runs Batted In 41 T-1st Walks 20 T-4th Times Hit by Pitch 3 T-9th Total Bases 113 2nd Leaderboard Points 4,336 7th Stat Points 1,276 3rd MVP Points 400 4th
DANIELLE O’TOOLE IN ATHLETES UNLIMITED CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON HISTORY Career Category No. Rank Games Pitched 32 T-2nd Games Started 19 2nd Wins 7 6th Complete Games 5 2nd Innings Pitched 130.0 1st Strikeouts 84 4th MVP Points 340 8th
Catcher Dejah Mulipola became the first player in Athletes Unlimited Softball Champi onship Season history to finish a season as the league leader in batting average, home runs and runs batted in. The former Arizona star authored a .432 batting average with nine home runs and 19 runs batted in.
Season Batting Average * Home Runs Runs Batted In 2020 Jessi Warren (.510) Sahvanna Jaquish (9) Sahvanna Jaquish (19) Erika Piancastelli (9) 2021 Amanda Chidester (.413) Amanda Chidester (7) Amanda Lorenz (16) 2022 Dejah Mulipola (.432) Dejah Mulipola (9) Dejah Mulipola (19) * - Minimum 2 AB/game
Catcher Dejah Mulipola led Athletes Unlimited Softball with nine home runs in 2022, a mark that tied the single-season record established by catchers Erika Piancastelli and Sahvanna Jaquish in the inaugural 2020 season. Mulipola hit seven of her home runs in the final nine games of the season, including a home run in the season finale to seal the league championship.
MOST HOME RUNS IN A SEASON • CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON HISTORY No. Player Season
Erika Piancastelli 2020
Sahvanna Jaquish 2020
Dejah Mulipola 2022
Shannon Rhodes 2022
Amanda Chidester 2021
Catcher Dejah Mulipola became the second player in league history to hit a home run in four consecutive games when she accomplished the feat from Aug. 12-19, 2022. She matched the standard set by outfielder Haylie McCleney, who had a home run in four straight games from Sept. 14-21, 2021.
4 Haylie McCleney Sept. 14-21, 2021
4 Dejah Mulipola Aug. 12-19, 2022
3 Gwen Svekis Sept. 27, 2020-Aug. 28, 2021
3 Amanda Chidester Aug. 29-Sept. 5, 2021
3 Amanda Chidester Sept. 11-13, 2021
3 Bubba Nickles July 30-Aug. 5, 2022
3 Shannon Rhodes Aug. 14-20, 2022
Middle infielder Sydney Romero set the Athletes Unlimited Softball single-season mark with eight doubles during the 2022 campaign. The former Oklahoma standout tallied a double in 7-of-15 games this summer, including two doubles against Team McCleney in the Week Five opener on Aug. 26.
Pitchers Rachel Garcia and Alyssa Denham earned the only two solo shutouts in 2022, marking the fourth and fifth solo clean sheets in the three-year history of Athletes Un limited Softball Championship Season play. Denham allowed just three hits and struck out five batters in a 1-0 victory over Team Jaquish on Aug. 21. Garcia also gave up three hits and posted three strikeouts in her 4-0 win over Team Mulipola on Aug. 27.
Player Date Opponent Final Score
Cat Osterman Aug. 31, 2020 Team Wagner 5-0
Cat Osterman Sept. 21, 2020 Team Reed 2-0
Cat Osterman Sept. 13, 2021 Team McCleney 3-0
Alyssa Denham Aug. 21, 2022 Team Jaquish 1-0
Rachel Garcia Aug. 27, 2022 Team Mulipola 4-0
Pitcher Rachel Garcia became the third pitcher in Athletes Unlimited Softball history to earn all 264 possible points in a game with her three-hit shutout in Team Denham’s 4-0 victory over Team Mulipola on Saturday. Garcia also added a walk in four appearances at the plate, giving her 272 total points, which rank third by any player in a single game in league history.
No. Player Date Opponent
272 Rachel Garcia Aug. 27, 2022 Team Mulipola
264 Cat Osterman Aug. 31, 2020 Team Wagner
264 Cat Osterman Sept. 21, 2020 Team Reed
264 Alyssa Denham Aug. 21, 2022 Team Jaquish
256 Aleshia Ocasio Sept. 5, 2020 Team Show
No. Player Date Opponent
290 Amanda Sanchez Sept. 14, 2020 Team Sanders
278 Sahvanna Jaquish July 31, 2022 Team Eberle
272 Rachel Garcia Aug. 27, 2022 Team Mulipola
264 Cat Osterman Aug. 31, 2020 Team Wagner
264 Cat Osterman Sept. 21, 2020 Team Reed
264 Alyssa Denham Aug. 21, 2022 Team Jaquish
Pitcher Taylor McQuillin established an Athletes Unlimited Softball record by pitching in 14 games during the 2022 campaign. McQuillin, who finished the season with a 4-3 record and a save, also completed the campaign ranked second in the league with 46 strikeouts, including a trio of five-strikeout performances.
Catcher Erika Piancastelli hit the third grand slam in Athletes Unlimited Softball Cham pionship Season history on Aug. 7 in the bottom of the fifth inning of Team Mulipola’s 13-8 victory over Team Harshman. It was the first grand slam in a game since Sept. 5, 2021, when Piancastelli also belted a grand slam against Team Jaquish.
GRAND SLAMS IN ATHLETES UNLIMITED SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON HISTORY Player Opponent Date Inning
Jazmyn Jackson Team Pendley Aug. 29, 2020 4th Erika Piancastelli Team Jaquish Sept. 5, 2021 7th Erika Piancastelli Team Harshman Aug. 7, 2022 5th
Outfielder Haylie McCleney fashioned the only four-hit game of the 2022 season on Aug. 13 after going 4-for-5 with three runs scored against Team Chidester. McCleney, who posted her second career four-hit game, became the first player with four hits in a game since outfielder Victoria Hayward did it against Team Ocasio on Sept. 26, 2021.
FOUR-HIT GAMES (ATHLETES UNLIMTED SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON HISTORY) Player Opponent Date
Samantha Show Team Pendley Aug. 29, 2020
Aubrey Leach Team Ocasio Sept. 27, 2020
Tori Vidales Team Warren Sept. 28, 2020
Haylie McCleney Team Jaquish Sept. 5, 2021
Victoria Hayward Team Ocasio Sept. 26, 2021
Haylie McCleney Team Chidester Aug. 13, 2022
Catcher Sahvanna Jaquish totaled an Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Sea son single-game record 11 total bases during Team Zerkle’s 9-3 victory over Team Eber le in the Week One finale on July 31. Jaquish hit a pair of home runs and also registered a triple as part of her 278-point day.
Middle infielder Abby Ramirez just missed earning the first cycle in Athletes Unlimited Softball history on Aug. 14 with her 3-for-4 performance against Team Jaquish. Ramirez hit a double in the second inning before an RBI single in the fifth inning. She completed the day with a triple to center field in the top of the seventh inning.
Catcher Erika Piancastelli participated in Major League Baseball’s FTX Home Run Der by events in London, England, and Seoul, South Korea during the summer. Piancastelli was named MVP in London after leading the Yankees to the win with 15 home runs over the two rounds. In addition, she blasted nine home runs in Seoul on Sept. 17.
Catcher Taylor Edwards and her twin sister, Tatum, teamed up again during the 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball season, but participated in different capacities. While Taylor stepped to the plate, Tatum served as a facilitator during the 2022 campaign. The duo played together at Nebraska from 2011-14 and guided the Huskers to 163 victories and four NCAA Tournament appearances, including a berth in the 2013 Women’s College World Series.
Pitchers
Alyssa Denham and Rachel Garcia both fashioned a complete game effort in the Aug. 21 contest between Team Chidester and Team Jaquish, marking the only time during the 2022 season a game had just two pitchers. It is also the sixth time in league history where two pitchers have authored a complete game in the same contest.
• Hitters finished with a .282 batting average during the 2022 season, an improvement of .016 from the 2021 campaign.
• Pitchers combined to record 10 saves in 2022 after posting just five totals during the first two seasons ... Rachel Garcia earned a league-record three saves while Odicci Alexander added two saves.
Date Game
Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Sept. 14, 2020 Team Osterman 2, Team Piancastelli 1 Cat Osterman Haylie Wagner Sept. 19, 2020 Team Warren 2, Team Reed 1 Aleshia Ocasio Danielle O’Toole Sept. 19, 2020 Team Hayward 4, Team Osterman 1 Haylie Wagner Cat Osterman Sept. 21, 2020 Team Osterman 2, Team Reed 0 Cat Osterman Danielle O’Toole Sept. 6, 2021 Team Vidales 4, Team Piper 1 Haylie Wagner Aleshia Ocasio Aug. 21, 2022 Team McCleney 1, Team Jaquish 0 Alyssa Denham Rachel Garcia
• Pitchers also fashioned nine complete games during the 2022 campaign ... Danielle O’Toole led the league with four complete game efforts, while Rachel Garcia tallied three complete games ... Alyssa Denham notched the first two complete games of her Athletes Unlimited career.
• Outfielder Amanda Lorenz (Aug. 13) and catcher Dejah Mulipola (Aug. 28) were issued an intentional walk in 2022 ... Infielder Amanda Chidester owns the league record with four career intentional walks, while Lorenz has two intentional walks to her credit.
Athletes Causes program, powered by Give Lively, will provide
NAME CAUSE
Rachel Garcia Women’s Sports Foundation
Victoria Hayward Natasha Watley Foundation
to charities of the players’ choosing equal to
of their season bonus and players will have the opportunity to create their own fundraising pages to support the
of their choice.
Sydney Romero Head and Neck Cancer Living Foundation
Danielle O’Toole Frosted Faces Foundation
Amanda Chidester Natasha Watley Foundation
Danielle Gibson Geaux Teal Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation
Shannon Rhodes Morgan’s Message
Anissa Urtez Natasha Watley Foundation
Aleshia Ocasio Pitch In for Baseball & Softball
Kiki Stokes-O’Connor Win for KC
Abby Ramirez Ronald McDonald House Charities - Chicagoland/NW Indiana
Aliyah Andrews Ronald McDonald House Charities - Tampa Bay
Taylor Edwards The Trevor Project
Sashel Palacios Morgan’s Message
Aly Harrell Play Like a Girl!
Dejah Mulipola The Trevor Project
Haylie Wagner The 22q Family Foundation
Morgan Zerkle Natasha Watley Foundation
Hannah Flippen Natasha Watley Foundation
Caleigh Clifton Alzheimer’s Association
Gwen Svekis It Gets Better Project
Odicci Alexander Natasha Watley Foundation
Amanda Lorenz American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Jazmyn Jackson Chapter 510
Megan Wiggins Path United
Sydney Sherrill Women’s Sports Foundation
Sahvanna Jaquish Geaux Teal Ovarian Cancer Awareness Foundation
Haylie McCleney The Trevor Project
Tori Vidales Books Between Kids - Houston
Maggie Balint Boys and Girls Club of the Golden Triangle
Sierra Romero The Trevor Project
Kelsey Harshman The Pink Fund
Erika Piancastelli Morgan’s Message
Nicole Rangel-Mendes Laureus USA
DJ Sanders Boys and Girls Club of the Golden Triangle
Alyssa Denham National PKU Alliance
Jordan Roberts LUV Michael
Janae Jefferson Natasha Watley Foundation
Rachel Lewis Play Like a Girl!
Carrie Eberle The Innocence Project
Mia Davidson Geaux Teal Ovarian Cancer Awareness Center
Lilli Piper American Lung Association
Bubba Nickles Athletes in Action
Danielle Watson Alzheimer’s Association
Peyton St. George Morgan’s Message
Sam Fischer 100 Club of Arizona
Hayley Busby The Trevor Project
Alysen Febrey Play Like a Girl!
Mariah Mazon Morgan’s Message
Shannon Saile Natasha Watley Foundation
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Rylee Bayless Lone Survivor Foundation
Aubrey Leach The Pink Fund
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» A total of 11 Athletes Unlimited Softball athletes prepared for the 2022 Champion ship Season by competing at The World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, from July 9-13 ... The group featured seven players on Team USA, which won the Gold medal, along with three athletes on Team Canada and one member of Team Puerto Rico.
» Led by tournament Most Valuable Player Haylie McCleney and All-World Team pick Dejah Mulipola, Team USA authored a perfect 5-0 record in the event and held off Japan for a 3-2 victory in the Gold Medal Game ... McCleney ranked second in the tournament field with a .533 batting average while registering eight hits, including two doubles, with four runs scored and five runs batted in.
» Mulipola, meanwhile, hit a tournament-high .615 and matched McCleney’s eight hits to lead all players ... She posted four multi-hit games and drove in three runs against Canada with a 2-for-2 performance, including a double.
» Hannah Flippen was one of four players in the tournament field to hit a pair of home runs ... She blasted a home run in back-to-back outings against Chinese Taipei and Canada during round robin play.
» Rookie Janae Jefferson hit .333 (3-for-9) over five games in the tournament, includ ing a double and a triple, while scoring three runs ... Jefferson opened the event with a triple against Italy before adding a double and two runs batted in against Japan in the Gold Medal Game.
» The Team USA roster also included outfielders Amanda Lorenz and Bubba Nickles, while catcher Gwen Svekis served as an alternate on the squad.
» Lorenz finished the tournament with five hits, including a double, while Nickles saw action in four contests and scored three runs.
» Pitcher Aleshia Ocasio, the lone Athletes Unlimited player on the Puerto Rico team, excelled in the circle by posting a 3-0 record with a 0.40 earned run average ... She allowed just nine hits over 17.2 innings with 15 strikeouts and just four walks.
» Ocasio, who also hit .357 in the tournament with five hits, struck out nine hitters in a complete game victory over Mexico to begin the tournament ... She also claimed a complete game win over Canada in the Fifth Place Game.
» Outfielder Victoria Hayward paced Team Canada with six hits in addition to scoring three runs ... Hayward also led the tournament with seven stolen bases, including a trio of stolen bases against Mexico during the medal round.
» Rookie infielder Alysen Febrey appeared in all five games for Team Canada, tallying a base hit against Italy in round robin play ... She also finished the tournament with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 39 chances.
» The Team Canada roster also included infielder Kelsey Harshman, who hit .385 with two doubles and four runs scored over five games.
COUNTRY
Hannah Flippen United States
Janae Jefferson United States
Amanda Lorenz United States
Haylie McCleney United States Dejah Mulipola United States Bubba Nickles United States
Gwen Svekis United States
Alysen Febrey Canada Kelsey Harshman Canada Victoria Hayward Canada Aleshia Ocasio Puerto Rico
NO. NAME POS. HT. B/T HOMETOWN SCHOOL
00 Rachel Garcia P 5-6 R/R Palmdale, Calif. UCLA rachel_00_garcia raaaccchhheeell
1 Victoria Hayward OF 5-7 L/L Mountain View, Calif. Washington victoriahay victoriahayward
2 Sydney Romero MIF 5-7 R/R San Diego, Calif. Oklahoma sydsyd2 syd_syd2
3 Danielle O’Toole P 5-8 R/L Upland, Calif. Arizona OH_TOOLY OH_TOOLY3
4 Amanda Chidester CIF 5-9 R/R Allen Park, Mich. Michigan chid-is-turr chiddy3 chiddy3
5 Danielle Gibson CIF 6-0 L/R Murrieta, Calif. Arkansas daniellewhorton41 danielleeee41
6 Shannon Rhodes OF 5-6 R/R Fort Worth, Texas Texas shannonrhodes2 shannonrhodes2
7 Anissa Urtez MIF 5-8 R/R Long Beach, Calif. Utah uh-knee-suh err-tez nniiiss nniiiss_
8 Aleshia Ocasio P 5-9 L/R Altamonte, Fla. Florida uh-lee-shuh oh-cah-see-oh aleshiaocasio aleshiaocasio
9 Kiki Stokes-O’Connor OF 5-5 L/R Olathe, Kan. Nebraska key-key kstokes10 kstokes10
10 Abby Ramirez MIF 5-4 S/R Chicago, Ill. Michigan a_ram410 abber410
11 Aliyah Andrews OF 5-8 L/R Oldsmar, Fla. LSU uh-lee-yah aliyahandrews andrews_aliyah
12 Taylor Edwards C 5-7 R/R Murrieta, Calif. Nebraska tayylayy2 tayedwards212
13 Sashel Palacios C 5-3 L/R Chula Vista, Calif. Arizona State sah-shell puh-la-cee-os seashell_13 seashel_13
14 Aly Harrell CIF 5-7 L/L Gahanna, Ohio Marshall hair-uhl alyjae_ alyharrell
15 Dejah Mulipola C 5-8 R/R Garden Grove, Calif. Arizona day-zhuh muhl-ee-pahl-a dejahmulipola_ dejahmulipola
17 Haylie Wagner P 5-7 R/L Orange, Calif. Michigan haywags17 haywags17
18 Morgan Zerkle OF 5-8 L/R Milton, W.Va. Marshall zir-kle (rhymes with circle) mzerkleee mzerkleee
19 Hannah Flippen MIF 5-4 R/R Bonita, Calif. Utah hannahflippen hannahflippen
20 Caleigh Clifton MIF 5-8 R/R Wayne, Okla. Oklahoma kay-lee caleigh_danielle caleigh_20
21 Gwen Svekis C 5-9 R/R Davie, Fla. Oregon suh-veck-iss gsvekis21 gsvekis21
22 Odicci Alexander P 5-7 R/R Boydton, Va. James Madison odd-uh-see double_seas 2seas__
23 Amanda Lorenz OF 5-5 L/L Moorpark, Calif. Florida lohr-enz amandalorenz amandalorenz18
24 Jazmyn Jackson OF 5-7 L/R San Jose, Calif. California jazmynrenee jazmynjacksonn
25 Megan Wiggins OF 5-5 L/R Winder, Ga. Georgia meganwiggins25 themeganwiggins
26 Sydney Sherrill CIF 5-7 L/R Moore, Okla. Florida State sydneysherrill sydneysherrilll
27 Sahvanna Jaquish C 5-7 R/R Highland, Calif. LSU jay-kwish sjay_27 sahvannajaquish
28 Haylie McCleney OF 5-4 L/L Morris, Ala. Alabama hayliemac8 hayliemac8
29 Tori Vidales CIF 5-5 R/R La Porte, Texas Texas A&M vuh-dal-is vidalestori vidalestori
31 Maggie Balint P 5-8 R/R West Grove, Pa. San Diego State bal-int (bal rhymes with cal) maggiebalint balintmaggie
32 Sierra Romero MIF 5-5 R/R Murrieta, Calif. Michigan sierrajoy32 sierrajoy32
33 Kelsey Harshman MIF 5-5 L/R Tucson, Ariz. Wisconsin kelseyharshman kelsey_harshman
34 Erika Piancastelli C 5-9 R/R Modena, Italy McNeese State p-aun-cuh-stelli urka_20 uurka_20
35 Nicole Rangel-Mendes OF 5-7 L/L Houston, Texas Oklahoma nicole_mendes_ nicole_mendes_
37 DJ Sanders CIF 5-9 R/R Columbus, Miss. Oregon saygeauxdj_ dj_37ss
40 Alyssa Denham P 6-1 R/R Alvin, Texas Arizona the_alyssadenham22 denhamalyssa
Jordan Roberts C 5-7 R/R Live Oak, Fla. Florida daily_cup_of_jo_ jordanalyssar14
Janae Jefferson MIF 5-4 L/R Humble, Texas Texas juh-nae ja_naaeee janaejefferson4
Rachel Lewis OF 5-6 R/R Liberty Township, Ohio Northwestern rlewis_11 rlewis_11
Carrie Eberle P 6-0 R/R Charlotte, N.C. Oklahoma State ebb-ur-lee carrieeberle carrieeberle
Mia Davidson C 5-5 R/R Hillsborough, N.C. Mississippi State miasky3332 miasky3332
Lilli Piper CIF 5-10 R/R Norton, Ohio Ohio State piperswiper23 piperswiper
Bubba Nickles OF 5-8 R/R Merced, Calif. UCLA bubbanickles madilyn_nickles
Danielle Watson P 5-8 R/R Osceola, Ind. Florida State daniellewatson131 daniellew_131
Peyton St. George P 5-10 R/R Mechanicsville, Va. Duke peytonstgeorge peytonstg
Sam Fischer CIF 5-11 R/R Simi Valley, Calif. Loyola Marymount samfischer22 samfischer22
Hayley Busby CIF 5-7 R/R Phoenix, Ariz. Oklahoma State hayleybusby17 hayleybusby
Alysen Febrey CIF 5-8 L/L Peachtree City, Ga. Oklahoma State fee-bree alysenf alysenfebrey
Mariah Mazon P 5-10 R/R Tulare, Calif. Oregon State mah-sohn mariahmazon mariahmazon
Shannon Saile P 5-7 R/R Tampa, Fla. Oklahoma sail shannonsaile
Courtney Gano CIF 5-9 R/R West Covina, Calif. Washington gain-oh courtneygano cgano8
Andrea Filler CIF 5-10 R/R Fort Wayne, Ind. Northwestern on-dree-auh andreafiller andreafiller
Sara Groenewegen P 5-8 R/R White Rock, B.C., Canada Minnesota grown-uh-wagon saragroe saragroe
Rylee Bayless
Aubrey Leach
Littlejohn
Greta Cecchetti
Taylor McQuillin
5-3 L/R Kansas City, Mo. Oklahoma State rye-lee rylee_bayless ms_bayless7
5-4 L/R The Woodlands, Texas Tennessee aubrey_lynne10 aubrey_lynne10
6-1 R/R Rusk, Texas
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6-0 R/R Bollate, Lombardia, Italy Texas A&M-Corpus Christi gretacecchetti18 greta_cecchetti
5-8
Mission Viejo, Calif.
5-8 R/R Humble, Texas
5-4 L/R Ceres, Calif.
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2022 Championship Season: Finished in eighth place with 1,558 leaderboard points, including league-high 240 MVP points … also ranked third with 508 stat points … au thored 3-2 record with 2.29 earned run average in 13 appearances … tied for Athletes Unlimited lead with seven starts … set league record with three saves … tallied three complete games with one solo shutout … registered three hits at the plate while scoring a run … also drew three walks … allowed one run on five hits with season-high nine strikeouts in complete game effort against Team Chidester in Week Four finale … threw complete game shutout with eight strikeouts against Team Mulipola during Week Five … struck out six hitters in Week Three against Team Chidester in complete game outing.
2022 AUX Season: Finished second on the leaderboard with 1,422 points … led league with six game MVP honors … authored .333 batting average with nine hits, including league-high three home runs … also drove in nine runs while scoring four runs … au thored 2-1 record in the circle with eight appearances, including league-high five starts … ranked second in the league with 25 strikeouts over 27.0 innings … posted three multi-hit games over final seven outings at the plate … hit two home runs and drove in three runs against Team Fischer on June 23 … also hit a home run in season finale against Team Fischer on June 25 … threw season-high 5.0 innings against Team Eberle on June 15, posting three strikeouts … registered season-high six strikeouts against Team Zerkle on June 23 in Series Three opener.
2021 Championship Season: One of 12 players selected in Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Member of Team USA who won Silver medal at 2020 Tokyo Olympics … posted 1.05 earned run average with 13 strikeouts in 6.2 innings at the 2018 WBSC Women’s World Championship … helped Team USA win Gold medal and had walk-off hit against Japan in the semifinals … also led Team USA to Gold medals at 2019 Japan Cup and 2019 Pan American Games … competed in 2018 USA Softball International Cup, fashioning a 1.31 earned run average with 11 strikeouts in 5.1 innings.
Five-year letter winner for the Bruins who authored 99-17 career record with 11 saves … appeared in 149 career games with 95 starts … compiled 66 career complete games and 28 shutouts … finished career with 996 strikeouts in 749.0 innings … also posted .337 career batting average at the plate with 214 hits, including 43 home runs … drove in 175 career runs, including 54 during her freshman season … tallied 50 hits in a sea son three times … three-time recipient of Honda Award for Softball (2018, 2019, 2021) … also received Honda Cup in 2019 and 2021 … honored as 2018 and 2021 NFCA Di vision I Player of the Year … also earned NFCA Division I Pitcher of the Year accolades in 2019 … two-time Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team selection who was named Most Outstanding Player of 2019 tournament … fourth in UCLA history with 99 victories … also stands fifth in program history with 149 appearances and 813 ca reer strikeouts … tied for second on Bruins’ career saves list … three-time First-Team NFCA All-America selection … also garnered Second-Team All-America notice in 2017 … named All-Pac-12 First Team four times, including three Player of the Year commen dations … honored as 2019 Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year … received NFCA and Pac-12 Freshman of the Year distinction in 2017 … two-time selection as USA Softball Player of the Year in 2018 and 2019 … winner of 2021 Senior CLASS Award … selected as 2019 Los Angeles Sportswoman of the Year.
Named assistant softball coach at UC San Diego on Oct. 7, 2022, after serving as a volunteer assistant coach at San Diego State … majored in history at UCLA … hobbies include jet skiing and running … also enjoys spending time with youth and her family … has a passion for American Sign Language.
2022 Championship Season: Third-year performer who finished in 20th place with 1,302 leaderboard points … set league record with 56 at-bats … tied for fifth in the circuit with 18 hits while scoring 12 runs … also stole league-best five bases in six attempts … hit two home runs with six runs batted in … opened season with nine-game hitting streak before going 0-for-3 against Team Chidester on Aug. 19 … collected three hits with a run scored against Team Harshman in Week Two opener to finish with season-high 180 leaderboard points … also went 3-for-5 with a home run, three runs scored and a pair of runs batted in against Team Chidester on Aug. 13 … closed season with two hits and two runs scored against Team Chidester along with driving in two runs.
2022 AUX Season: Closed season in 13th place on the leaderboard with 1,084 points … starter in 11 games who led the league with .512 batting average and 22 hits … hit safely in 10-of-11 appearances … also scored nine runs, which were tied for third in the circuit … led league with seven multi-hit games, including four games with three or more hits … went 4-for-5 with a run scored against Team Chidester on June 14, joining Dejah Mu lipola as the only players with a four-hit effort during the season … opened Series Two with three consecutive multi-hit games, going 8-for-12 with three runs scored during that span … finished season with eight-game hitting streak.
2021 Championship Season: Tallied 1,020 leaderboard points during her second Ath letes Unlimited season … started all 15 games … hit .354 with 17 hits in 48 at-bats … led AU for second straight year with seven stolen bases, equaling her own single-season record … also paced circuit with seven stolen base attempts … tied for third in the league with 17 hits, including four doubles … tied for fourth with two sacrifice hits.
2020 Championship Season: Finished third on the leaderboard with 1,860 points … also ranked fourth with 1,310 win points … accumulated 470 stat points, good for ninth in Athletes Unlimited … fashioned .396 batting average with .459 on-base percentage … tied for the league lead with 53 at-bats … tied for second with 21 hits … ranked fifth in the league with 15 runs scored … one of 12 players to record a triple during inaugural season … tied for ninth in the league with 31 total bases … paced league with seven stolen bases in seven attempts.
Youngest person ever named to Canadian Senior National Team after joining team at 16 years old in 2009 … led Canada to first-ever Olympic medal with Bronze medal performance in 2020 Tokyo Olympics … hit .300 in Tokyo with team-high seven runs scored … fashioned tournament-high 10 hits and seven stolen bases in 2019 WBSC Americas Olympic Qualifier … helped Team Canada claim Silver medal at 2011 Pan American Games … also named to 2015 Pan American Games team, but was unable to compete due to an injury … hit .353 with two stolen bases in 2019 Pan American Games as Canada won the Silver medal … has competed in five WBSC World Championships … member of Team Canada squad at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. … went 6-for-16 with a triple and two runs batted in during five games … led all players in the tournament with seven stolen bases.
Selected by Pennsylvania Rebellion with No. 19 overall pick in 2019 NPF Draft … played 2015 and 2016 seasons with the Rebellion … All-NPF performer with the Canadian Wild in 2019 while earning Jennie Finch Award … paced Wild with 46 hits and a .357 batting average.
Four-year letter winner for the Huskies who played from 2011-14 … ranks 10th in program history with 176 career runs … stands eighth on Huskies’ career list with 73 stolen bases in 78 attempts … hit .414 as a senior, which ranks eighth on Washington’s single-season list … led Pac-12 Conference with 28 stolen bases during senior season … recorded six triples during junior season to tie for second on UW’s single-season ledger … paced Huskies in batting average, at-bats, hits, stolen bases and runs scored during junior and senior campaigns … First-Team NFCA All-America selection as a senior … two-time First-Team All-Region honoree … earned All-Pac-12 Conference distinction three times, including First-Team notice as a junior and senior … three-time Academic All-Pac-12 selection … member of 2011 Pac-12 All-Freshman Team.
Member of Athletes Unlimited Softball Player Executive Committee … currently serving as associate head softball coach at San Diego State … grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada … started playing softball at the age of 7 … lists her parents as her biggest inspi ration growing up … proudest athletic moment is qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olym pics with Team Canada … would pursue a career in business management if she was not playing softball … hobbies include cooking, working out and traveling … graduated from Washington with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Political Science … also earned her Master’s degree from Massachusetts in 2017 … named Softball Cana da’s Home Run Sports Female Fast Pitch Athlete of the Year in 2019.
POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-7 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: San Diego, Calif. COLLEGE: Oklahoma
ATHLETE CAUSE: Head and Neck Cancer Living Foundation
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,252 leaderboard points while starting all 15 games … fashioned .412 batting average with league-high 21 hits and nine runs bat ted in … set Athletes Unlimited single-season record with eight doubles … posted 100 or more leaderboard points in a game seven times, including season-high 170 points against Team Jaquish on Aug. 20 … hit safely in 14-of-15 games with five multi-hit per formances … closed season with seven hits in her final three games, including a 3-for-4 performance against Team McCleney in Week Five opener … also collected two hits, including a double, and three runs batted in against Team Chidester in season finale … registered season-high 170 leaderboard points after driving in two runs and scoring a run against Team Jaquish on Aug. 20 … ended season by hitting safely in final eight contests.
2022 AUX Season: Accumulated 1,260 points to finish sixth on the leaderboard … started all 12 games and compiled .326 batting average with 14 hits … tallied two home runs with nine runs batted in … scored seven runs … hit by a pitch three times, good for a share of second place in the circuit … authored four multi-hit games while closing the season with seven-game hitting streak … hit a home run against Team Eberle on June 15 and against Team Fischer in season finale on June 25.
2021 Championship Season: Registered 932 leaderboard points during her rookie season … fashioned .220 batting average with nine hits in 15 games … started 12 times … tied with Kelsey Stewart for league lead by being hit by a pitch three times … one of eight players to register a triple … one of 13 players to record a sacrifice fly.
Member of Team Mexico who played in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics … hit .222 with four hits, including a double and a home run … also drew three walks.
No. 3 overall selection in 2019 NPF Draft by the USSSA Pride … earned All-NPF honors after leading USSSA Pride to league championship.
Finished her career as the Sooners’ all-time leader in at-bats (853), doubles (58) and sacrifice flies (13) … also stands second in Oklahoma history with 320 career hits, 121 ca reer extra-base hits and 558 total bases … ranks among OU’s career leaders in games played (258), runs batted in (215), batting average (.375), runs scored (229) and home runs (54) … struck out just four times in 211 at-bats during 2016 season … two-time First-Team NFCA All-America selection … earned NFCA All-Region and All-Big 12 Con ference honors four times, including First-Team notice as a junior and senior … honored as 2019 Big 12 Conference Player of the Year … two-time member of Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team.
Has dual citizenship in Mexico and the United States … won two NCAA championships as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma while earning her Master’s degree in adult and higher education with an emphasis in intercollegiate athletics administration … member of 2022 NFCA Division I National Coaching Staff of the Year with the Sooners … named as an assistant softball coach at Duke on July 1, 2022 … sister, Sierra, is also a profes sional softball player who graduated from Michigan … younger brother, Michael, will be a freshman on the LSU baseball team during the 2023 season.
POSITION: Pitcher HEIGHT: 5-8 BATS/THROWS: R/L HOMETOWN: Upland, Calif. COLLEGE: Arizona
2022 Championship Season: Placed 11th on the leaderboard with 1,490 points, includ ing 1,060 win points and 140 MVP points … posted 200 or more leaderboard points three times, including season-high 244 points in Week Three opener against Team McCleney … member of 2022 Athletes Unlimited All-Defensive Team … led league with seven starts and four complete games … ranked second with 45.0 innings pitched in nine appearances … fourth in the league in earned run average (3.89) and strikeouts (25) … gave up one earned run on six hits in complete game effort to begin Week Three against Team McCleney … struck out season-high seven batters in complete game against Team Eberle during Week Two … recorded five strikeouts while giving up two runs on five hits against Team Jaquish on Aug. 19.
2022 AUX Season: Inaugural AUX Softball champion after compiling 1,436 points … tied for second with four game MVP awards … ranked second in the league with 1.69 earned run average over nine appearances, including three starts … tied for the league lead with four victories … also posted league-best two complete games … allowed just seven earned runs over 28.2 innings with 22 hits and 18 strikeouts … held opposing hit ters to league-low .206 batting average … pitched first complete game in AUX Softball history against Team Fischer on June 23, allowing three runs on 10 hits while posting three strikeouts … posted season-high seven strikeouts in June 18 victory over Team Gibson to begin Series Two … did not allow an earned run in 4.1 innings during season finale victory over Team Fischer.
2021 Championship Season: Amassed 680 leaderboard points in her second Athletes Unlimited season … one of six pitchers to appear in 10 games … made two starts … posted 9.90 earned run average with 17 strikeouts in 23.0 innings … ranked sixth in the league with 36 hits allowed … tied for sixth place with 17 strikeouts … threw three wild pitches.
2020 Championship Season: Earned 16th place on the inaugural leaderboard with 1,434 points … ranked fifth in the circuit with 494 stat points … one of five players to register at least 200 MVP points … appeared in 13 games with league-leading 10 starts … authored 2.82 earned run average with 3-3 record … allowed 25 earned runs and 66 hits … tied with Haylie Wagner for second in the league with 62.0 innings pitched … one of four pitchers to throw a complete game … ranked second in Athletes Unlimited with 42 strikeouts.
Competed with Team Mexico at 2020 Tokyo Olympics … fashioned 0-2 record with 1.24 earned run average and seven strikeouts in three appearances … allowed just three hits in 3.2 innings against Team USA with two strikeouts … also conceded one earned run over 6.0 innings against Canada with three strikeouts … spent two years with Team USA from 2017-18 … pitched 4.2 innings with six strikeouts while helping Team USA win Gold medal at 2018 WBSC Women’s World Championship … threw 6.1 innings and accumulated four strikeouts in 2018 USA Softball International Cup … member of Gold medal-winning team at 2017 Pan American Championship, posting 2-0 record with 2.80 ERA in 15 innings … also allowed six runs on eight hits while claiming 12 strikeouts … aided Team USA to Silver medal in 2017 World Cup of Softball … led Team USA with 15 innings pitched during the tournament while securing 11 strikeouts.
Played three seasons with the NPF’s Chicago Bandits after being picked with No. 8 overall selection in 2017 NPF Draft … authored 1-1 record in 2017 with seven strikeouts over 10.0 innings … did not record a decision in 12.0 innings during the 2018 campaign while posting 14 strikeouts.
Transferred to Arizona after two seasons at San Diego State … sat out 2015 season before playing final two seasons with the Wildcats … ranks eighth in program history with 1.69 career earned run average … fashioned 402 career strikeouts, the 10th-high est mark on the Wildcats’ all-time list … threw no-hitter on Mar. 24, 2017, against No. 6 Washington, which stands as the no-hitter thrown by an Arizona pitcher against a ranked team … finalist for 2017 USA Softball National Player of the Year … earned FirstTeam NFCA All-America honors as a senior … two-time NFCA First-Team All-Region and All-Pac 12 Conference pick with the Wildcats … honored as Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year in 2017 … made 83 appearances in two seasons at San Diego State while earning All-Mountain West Conference honors twice … tied for seventh in Aztec history with 45 victories … owns program-record .726 career winning percentage … tallied 39 career complete games with 10 shutouts with the Aztecs … one of four pitchers in SDSU his tory to win 30 or more games in a season after notching 31 victories as a sophomore … named 2014 Mountain West Pitcher of the Year … made 48 appearances during her sophomore campaign and posted a 31-10 record with a 1.91 earned run average and 196 strikeouts … named Mountain West Freshman of the Year in 2013 after compiling 14-7 record in 155 innings … limited opposing hitters to a .250 average with 121 strike outs and a 1.81 earned run average.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-9 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Allen Park, Mich. COLLEGE: Michigan
2022 Championship Season: Earned fifth place on the leaderboard with 1,592 points … member of Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team … ranked fourth in league standings with 502 stat points … starter in all 15 games who hit .383 with seven home runs and 16 runs batted in … tied for league lead with 15 runs scored … registered at least one hit in 11-of-15 games … hit a home run in four of her first five games … authored six multi-hit games, including season-high three hits against Team Eberle on Aug. 6 … went 3-for-5 with a home run and two runs batted in while securing 190 leaderboard points … closed season with a five-game hitting streak, including a pair of two-hit efforts … went 2-for-3 with a home run, three runs scored and two runs batted in against Team Mulipola in final game of the season … drove in three runs against Team Jaquish in Week Two opener while hitting a double and a home run.
2022 AUX Season: Accrued 1,164 leaderboard points to place 10th in the league stand ings … started all 12 games and registered .205 batting average with nine hits and six runs batted in … posted league-high 12 putouts against Team Gibson on June 20 … opened season by registering at least one hit in seven of first nine outings … posted back-to-back two-hit games on June 20 against Team Gibson and on June 23 against Team Zerkle … scored twice in season finale against Team Fischer on June 25 … served as one of three captains during opening series of the season.
2021 Championship Season: Finished second on the leaderboard with 1,714 points … tied for fourth in the league with 1,140 win points while her 434 stat points were good for third … also tallied 140 MVP points, which were tied for fifth in the circuit … member of inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team … batted .413 while starting all 15 games … led Athletes Unlimited with 19 hits, seven home runs and 41 total bases … tied for fourth in the league with 12 runs scored and 12 runs batted in … drew nine walks, good for third in the league.
2020 Championship Season: Tallied 1,030 leaderboard points during inaugural sea son … batted .300 with 15 hits, including six extra-base hits … tied for ninth in the league with 50 at-bats … shared league lead for triples with Anissa Urtez and Aleshia Ocasio … tied for sixth with 13 runs batted in.
Helped Team USA win Silver medal at 2020 Tokyo Olympics … posted .200 batting average with four hits in six games … also drove in three runs … went 2-for-4 against Canada with a run batted in … also registered game-winning hit against Australia to pro pel Team USA into the medal round … three-time participant in WBSC Women’s World Championship who led Team USA to a Gold medal and two Silver medals … member of Gold medal-winning team at 2017 Pan American Championship, hitting .515 with 17 runs batted in, 11 runs scored and two home runs … also helped Team USA earn Silver medal at 2015 Pan American Games with .400 batting average and six RBI … five-time medalist at World Cup of Softball, including Gold medals in 2012 and 2015.
Named 2019 NPF Player of the Year by Softball America … also named as the league’s Player of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year and Home Run Award recipient during rookie campaign … hit .374 with 15 home runs and 35 runs batted in along with an .814 slugging percentage … led the Chicago Bandits to the NPF regular season title … origi nally drafted by the Akron Racers in 2012, but chose to play with Team USA … also saw action in 2016 with the Scrap Yard Dawgs.
Four-year letter winner for the Wolverines who appeared in 231 career games from 2009-12 … authored .355 career batting average with 40 home runs and 200 runs bat ted in … two-time NFCA All-America selection … honored as Big Ten Player of the Year during junior and senior seasons … recipient of Michigan’s Big Ten Medal of Honor as a senior … four-time All-Big Ten performer who earned First-Team notice as a freshman, junior and senior … finished her career ranked second in program history in runs batted in and grand slams … also ranked fourth on Michigan’s career list with .596 slugging percentage … tallied 248 career hits, good for ninth in UM history … also held 10th place on Wolverines’ career ledger with 157 runs scored.
Majored in physical education at Michigan … named as an assistant softball coach at her alma mater on Sept. 6, 2022 … daughter of Brian and Sandy Chidester … has four siblings - RJ, Matt, Trever and Brandon … proud aunt to three nephews and one niece … hobbies include outdoor activities … favorite sport other than softball is tennis … en gaged to Athletes Unlimited Softball athlete Anissa Urtez and the couple has a Red-Tri Australian Shepherd named Hank.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 6-0 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Murrieta, Calif. COLLEGE: Arkansas
2022 Championship Season: Talented rookie who placed 18th on the leaderboard with 1,336 points … ranked among league leaders with 1,060 win points … started 12-of14 games and batted .278 with three home runs and nine runs batted in … finished sea son with a hit in six of her final eight games, including a season-high three hits against Team Chidester to close Week Two … drove in three runs against Team Mulipola to close Week Three after going 2-for-4 with a home run … also had three runs batted in against Team Chidester in Week Five opener.
2022 AUX Season: Compiled 714 leaderboard points while making professional de but … starter in eight games who hit .259 with seven hits, including two home runs … inactive for the final series … hit first professional home run against Team Eberle on June 15 with a solo shot in the second inning … added a solo shot in the third inning to become first player in AUX Softball history to post two home runs in the same game … opened season with six-game hitting streak … one of 13 players selected in the Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Four-year letter winner for the Razorbacks after spending her freshman season at Ar izona State … appeared in 248 total games, including 189 at Arkansas … fashioned a .366 career batting average with 60 home runs and 220 runs batted in … finished Arkansas career as the Razorbacks’ career leader with 180 runs batted in … belted 10 or more home runs in four of her five seasons, including career-best 20 home runs as a redshirt senior … led Razorbacks to back-to-back Southeastern Conference titles in 2021 and 2022 … earned First-Team NFCA All-America honors in 2022 after claiming Second-Team distinction in 2021 … member of 2022 All-SEC First Team … Top-10 fi nalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award … Second-Team CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree in 2022 … two-time SEC All-Defensive Team pick … led Razorbacks in batting average (.445), hits (81), doubles (14), home runs (20) and runs batted in (70) during 2022 campaign … led SEC in runs batted in and total bases while ranking second in hits … also one of five players in the circuit to hit 20 or more home runs … posted .355 batting average as a redshirt junior and claimed spot on AllSEC Second Team … started all 25 games during COVID-19 shortened season and hit .295 with 23 hits and 14 RBI … garnered NFCA All-Region Third Team distinction as a sophomore … became the second NCAA Division I softball player to hit for the home run cycle, including the first player to do it in a four-inning span, when she blasted four home runs against SIU-Edwardsville on Feb. 23, 2019 … also became the sixth player in NCAA Division I softball history to hit four home runs in a single game … finished sophomore season as the Razorbacks’ leader with .640 slugging percentage, 12 home runs and 110 total bases … started 58-of-59 games as a freshman at Arizona State … one of three freshmen to earn First-Team All-Pac-12 Conference honors in 2018 … also named to Pac-12 All-Freshman Team … paced the Sun Devils in home runs (12), doubles (12), extra-base hits (24) and slugging percentage (.633).
Majored in psychology at Arkansas … oldest of three children in family … wore No. 41 at Arkansas because her father, Todd, wore it while playing basketball … younger sisters also wore No. 41 … joined softball coaching staff at University of Georgia on Sept. 2, 2022, as a volunteer assistant coach.
2022 Championship Season: Named 2022 Athletes Unlimited Rookie of the Year after placing sixth on the leaderboard with 1,564 points … also tallied 524 stat points to rank second in the circuit while adding 180 MVP points … tied for league lead with 15 runs scored while blasting eight home runs … ranked second in the league with 46 total bases … hit two home runs in a game twice … hit safely in first 13 games of the season before going 0-for-5 in final two outings … posted five multi-hit games … went 2-for-4 with three runs scored and four runs batted in against Team Chidester on Aug. 20 … hit a home run in three consecutive games from Aug. 14-20, including two home runs against Team McCleney on Aug. 14.
2022 AUX Season: Placed 16th on the leaderboard after registering 1,042 points in professional debut … starter in 11 games who registered six hits, including league-high three home runs … also scored seven runs with five runs batted in … hit a home run in back-to-back games against Team Mulipola and Team Gibson on June 18 … belted her first Athletes Unlimited home run on June 14 with a two-run shot against Sydney Littlejohn Watkins in the fifth inning … tallied one hit in six of first seven games … scored season-high two runs against Team Chidester on June 14.
2021 Championship Season: One of 12 players selected in Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Played final three seasons with the Longhorns after beginning career at Oregon … compiled .332 batting average with 43 home runs and 192 runs batted in while play ing 262 career games … tallied 242 hits, including 37 doubles and three triples, while scoring 177 runs … led Longhorns with 53 runs scored, 55 RBI and 117 total bases as a fifth-year senior en route to earning Second-Team NFCA All-Region and All-Big 12 Conference accolades … belted a pair of grand slams at Texas … ranks ninth in pro gram history with .569 slugging percentage … tied Texas single-game record with three home runs and 12 total bases against UTSA on Mar. 27, 2021 … earned Second-Team All-Region honors as a sophomore at Oregon after hitting 11 home runs with 45 RBI over 62 games … member of 2017 Pac-12 All-Freshman Team after starting 54-of-59 games … fashioned .336 batting average in rookie season with seven home runs and 46 runs batted in … named MVP of Eugene Regional after going 7-for-9 in three wins with two doubles and four runs batted in.
Majored in physical culture and sports at Texas.
POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-8 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Long Beach, Calif. COLLEGE: Utah
2022 Championship Season: Third-year performer who secured 1,246 leaderboard points, including 316 stat points … member of Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team for second straight year … started every game and posted .280 batting average with four home runs and nine runs batted in … posted at least one hit in 11-of-15 outings, including three games with two hits … hit safely in seven consecutive games from Aug. 12-26, fashioning a .346 (9-for-26) average with a home run and four runs batted in … opened season by hitting three home runs in first four games, including back-to-back contests to begin Week One … registered back-to-back two-hit performances on Aug. 14 and Aug. 19.
2021 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,354 leaderboard points to finish 14th in the league … tied for third in the league with 160 MVP points … hit .327 while starting all 15 games … tallied one home run with 15 runs batted in … posted league-leading 52 atbats … compiled 17 hits, good for third in the circuit … tied for first in the league with five doubles … ranked second in Athletes Unlimited with 15 runs batted in … one of eight players to record a triple … eighth in the league with 27 total bases.
2020 Championship Season: Ranked 15th on the inaugural season leaderboard with 1,510 points … finished 10th in the league with 1,190 win points … batted .344 while start ing 13-of-14 games … hit one home run with 10 runs batted in … tallied five extra-base hits … tied for the league lead with two triples … tied for second with two sacrifice hits.
Helped Team Mexico qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics … hit .300 (6-for-20) in six games in Tokyo, including a pair of two-hit games … also blasted two home runs, includ ing the first in the team’s Olympic history, with four runs batted in … fashioned .368 bat ting average in seven games at WBSC Softball Americas Qualifier … won Silver medal at 2017 Pan American Games and 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games … rep resented Mexico at 2018 International Cup, hitting .313 while leading the team in hits.
Played for the NPF’s Scrap Yard Dawgs in 2017 … batted .231 while helping team win Cowles Cup … spent 2019 season with Cleveland Comets and hit .301 in 73 at-bats … played for the Toda Medics in the Japan Diamond League in 2022.
Four-year letter winner for the Utes who played in 219 games from 2014-17 … compiled .357 career batting average with 15 home runs and 163 runs batted in … also tallied 236 hits, including 43 doubles and seven triples, while scoring 147 runs … ranked third on Utes’ career doubles and runs batted in lists … three-time All-Pac 12 Conference performer … First-Team All-Pac 12 selection as a junior after leading the league with 12 doubles and ranking sixth in the circuit with 70 hits … paced Pac-12 with 12 sacrifice bunts during sophomore campaign while starting all 55 games … Honorable Mention Pac-12 All-Defensive Team in 2015 after ranking among league leaders with 106 fielding assists … member of 2014 Pac-12 All-Freshman Team … Third-Team NFCA All-Region selection in 2014.
Majored in human development and family studies at Utah … childhood dream was to become a professional athlete … dedicated her life to softball and is motivated to work hard every day
2022 Championship Season: Third-year pitcher who tallied 1,346 leaderboard points … made seven appearances in the circle with four starts … sixth in the league with 3.40 earned run average … posted 2-2 record in 23.1 innings pitched … tallied 21 strikeouts, good for seventh in Athletes Unlimited … threw season-high 5.0 innings against Team Mulipola on Aug. 5 with seven strikeouts … tallied seven strikeouts over 4.0 innings in relief against Team Eberle on July 30 … also batted .353 with one home run and four runs scored … posted five-game hitting streak to begin season, including a home run in season opener against Team Zerkle … recorded lone double of the season against Team McCleney on Aug. 20.
2022 AUX Season: Accrued 740 leaderboard points to finish in a tie for 31st place in the league standings … played at right field, second base and pitcher positions … tallied two hits and drew three walks at the plate while appearing in 11 games with seven starts … made eight appearances in the circle, including four starts … posted 0-2 record with one save and 4.87 earned run average … tallied 10 strikeouts in 23.0 innings … threw season-high 5.0 innings against Team Eberle on June 13 … registered season-high three strikeouts against Team Eberle on June 15 in Series One finale.
2021 Championship Season: Earned individual champion after amassing 2,096 lea derboard points … also paced the league with 736 stat points and 320 MVP points … member of inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team … tied for league lead with 13 appearances, 10 games started and two complete games … second in Athletes Unlimited with 2.32 earned run average … authored league-high six victories while posting 6-5 record in 66.0 innings … paced AU with 55 strikeouts … conceded 25 runs, including 22 earned runs … hit .233 in 13 games with seven hits and six runs scored … one of eight players to hit a triple … also went 1-for-2 in stolen base attempts.
2020 Championship Season: Placed 11th on the leaderboard after compiling 1,584 points during inaugural season … ranked second in Athletes Unlimited with 240 MVP points while her 464 stat points were good for 10th place … made 10 appearances in the circle with seven starts … fashioned 3.57 earned run average, good for fourth in the league … tied for second in the circuit with five victories after posting 5-1 record … one of four players to pitch a complete game … gave up 18 earned runs over 35.0 innings … struck out 14 hitters while allowing just nine walks … tied for league lead with two triples.
Member of Puerto Rico National Team since 2013 … posted 3-1 record in five games during 2015 Pan American Games … also hit 6-for-16 (.375) with five runs batted in and four runs scored to lead Puerto Rico to Bronze medal … member of 2019 Puerto Rico team that won Bronze medal at 2019 Pan American Games … hit the game-winning home run to lead Team Mexico to Gold medal at 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games … competed for Puerto Rico at The 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala.
No. 10 overall selection in 2018 NPF Draft by the Chicago Bandits … posted 17 strike outs in 22 innings with a 1.27 earned run average during rookie season while helping the Bandits reach the NPF Championship … earned All-NPF distinction in 2019 after authoring 0.89 earned run average with 29 strikeouts in 39.1 innings.
Four-year letter winner for the Gators who played in 202 games with 158 starts from 2015-18 … led Florida to 2015 NCAA title … compiled 1.41 career earned run average while authoring 71-14 career record with 10 saves … accrued 19 career shutouts, which are tied for ninth on Gators’ all-time list … also held opposing batters to .192 career batting average … made 119 appearances with 68 starts in the circle … posted 20 or more wins as a pitcher twice, including 23 victories during senior season … struck out 549 hitters in 516.0 innings … posted 0.77 earned run average as a sophomore, the fifth-best mark in Florida history … tied program record with six saves in 2016 … threw three career no-hitters, including two during senior campaign … also involved in four combined no-hitters, including a perfect game against Hampton on Mar. 30, 2018 … fashioned .278 career batting average with 10 home runs and 73 runs batted in … tied for sixth in program history with eight career triples … two-time NFCA All-America se lection … received NFCA All-Region distinction all four years … earned All-Southeastern Conference honors as a sophomore, junior and senior … SEC All-Freshman Team hon oree in 2015 … member of 2017 Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team.
Favorite team is the New York Yankees … enjoys taking her dog to play in parks and staying active … hobbies also include exploring trails and state parks along with cook ing, traveling and sewing … brother played football at New Mexico … grandfather was an All-Army selection in softball.
POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-5 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Olathe, Kan. COLLEGE: Nebraska
ATHLETE CAUSE: Win for KC
2022 Championship Season: First-year performer in Athletes Unlimited who started 10-of-11 games … accrued 1,046 leaderboard points, including 970 win points … tallied four hits, including two doubles, with two walks and a run batted in … hit safely in three of her final four outings, including a double against Team McCleney on Aug. 27 … also had a double against Team Jaquish in Week Two opener.
No. 6 overall selection in 2016 NPF Draft by the Scrap Yard Dawgs … highest draft pick in Nebraska softball history … authored .304 batting average as a rookie with 35 hits in 40 games … helped Scrap Yard Dawgs win 2017 NPF title after registering 12 hits in 42 games … helped form This Is Us Softball team in 2020.
Four-year letter winner for the Huskers who started 233-of-235 games from 2013-16 … finished career with .350 batting average, 24 home runs and 111 runs batted in … tallied 233 career hits, including 28 doubles and 13 triples, while scoring school-re cord 200 runs … drew 120 career walks and was hit by a pitch 33 times … Third-Team NFCA All-America selection as a junior and senior … also garnered First-Team NFCA All-Region and All-Big Ten Conference distinction in both seasons … finished career as Nebraska’s single-season leader in runs scored, on-base percentage and times being hit by a pitch … also set single-game record with five runs scored against Maryland on Apr. 3, 2016 … stands sixth on Nebraska’s career batting average and hits lists … ranks fifth in school history for career triples and stolen bases … accumulated 359 total bases, good for 10th place on Huskers’ career ledger.
Named head softball coach at Kansas City on July 18, 2022, after spending 2022 cam paign at Upper Iowa University … married to Sean O’Connor on June 25, 2022 … spent three seasons as an assistant coach at South Dakota State … majored in child, youth and family studies at Nebraska … has one brother and one sister … hobbies include making TikTok videos, doing makeup and shopping.
POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-4 BATS/THROWS: S/R HOMETOWN: Chicago, Ill. COLLEGE: Michigan
ATHLETE CAUSE: Ronald McDonald House Charities - Chicagoland/NW Indiana
2022 Championship Season: Finished in 22nd place on the leaderboard with 1,268 leaderboard points … seventh in the league with 1,080 win points … started 11-of-14 games and authored .222 batting average with eight hits and four runs batted in … posted season-high three hits against Team Jaquish on Aug. 14 with a double and a triple while driving in three runs.
2022 AUX Season: Compiled 380 leaderboard points … fashioned two hits in five games … also scored three runs … posted a hit and scored a run in back-to-back games against Team Ocasio and Team Chidester on June 15.
2021 Championship Season: Compiled 940 leaderboard points in her second Ath letes Unlimited campaign … hit .158 with three hits in 19 at-bats over nine games … one of eight players to hit a triple … tied for second in the league with nine sacrifice hits.
2020 Championship Season: Finished in 20th place on the inaugural season leader board with 1,380 points … finished eighth in the league with 1,260 win points … posted four hits in 32 at-bats while starting 14-of-15 games … hit by a pitch three times, which tied for the fourth-highest total among all players … went 2-for-4 in stolen base attempts … also tallied two sacrifice hits.
Played three seasons for the NPF’s Chicago Bandits … appeared in 82 games from 2017-18 and hit .274 with 43 hits and 19 runs batted in … fashioned .243 batting average with 14 RBI as a rookie in 2017 before posting .340 mark in 2018.
Four-year letter winner for the Wolverines who appeared in 242 games from 2014-17 … authored .349 career batting average with two home runs and 63 runs batted in … also registered 35 stolen bases while collecting 220 hits and 180 runs … two-time Second-Team All-Big Ten selection at shortstop … earned NFCA All-Region honors at shortstop three times, including First-Team notice as a senior … member of 2015 Wom en’s College World Series All-Tournament Team … All-Big Ten Defensive Team honoree as a freshman … three-time Academic All-Big Ten recipient.
Currently serves as an assistant coach at DePaul … helped guide Blue Demons to the 2021 BIG EAST regular season title and BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year recog nition … majored in communication studies at Michigan … father, Ruben, played foot ball at Lakeland College … sister, Amanda, played softball at the University of Wiscon sin-Whitewater.
POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-8 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Oldsmar, Fla. COLLEGE: LSU
ATHLETE CAUSE: Ronald McDonald House Charities - Tampa Bay
2022 Championship Season: Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team selection who compiled 820 leaderboard points … started 12 games and authored .222 batting average with eight hits, including a double, and two runs batted in … also scored five runs … tied for third in the league with three stolen bases in four attempts … posted season-high three hits against Team Chidester in Week Three opener … drove in two runs against Team Jaquish on Aug. 13.
2022 AUX Season: Tallied 816 leaderboard points to place 26th in the league stand ings … started all 12 games … hit .333 with 13 hits in 39 at-bats, including one double … led league with three stolen bases in three attempts … also contributed a double with two walks … posted a pair of multi-hit games, including three-hit performance against Team Chidester on June 14 … had two hits with two runs scored against Team Zerkle on June 24 … earned No. 7 spot on SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays on June 15 with diving catch against Team Eberle.
2021 Championship Season: Finished eighth in the league with 1,510 leaderboard points, including league-high 1,200 win points … member of inaugural Athletes Unlim ited Softball All-Defensive Team … starter in all 15 games who garnered .319 batting average … tied for eighth in the league with 15 hits … one of eight players to hit a triple during the season … scored 10 runs, which were tied for seventh in the circuit … went 4-for-4 in stolen base attempts … struck out a league-high 13 times … one of 12 players selected in Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Five-year letter winner for the Tigers who played in 268 games from 2017-21, the fifth-highest total in program history … authored .353 career batting average with two home runs and 51 runs batted in … closed college career with 286 hits, including 12 doubles and eight triples, while scoring 196 runs … two-time NFCA All-Region First Team honoree … Second-Team NFCA All-America selection as a fifth-year senior af ter batting .365 with two home runs and 19 RBI in 57 games … also secured spot on All-Southeastern Conference First Team … earned Second-Team All-SEC commenda tions in 2018 and 2019 … three-time member of SEC All-Defensive Team … received four All-Louisiana nods, including First-Team status in 2019 and 2021 … finished career ranked second all-time at LSU with 145 stolen bases … ranks third at LSU with 196 career runs scored, while her 286 career hits are fourth in the Tigers’ annals … set LSU single-game record with eight at-bats against Ole Miss on Apr. 6, 2018 … equaled school single-game mark with four stolen bases against Oregon State on Feb. 17, 2018 … one of six players in program history to score 60 or more runs in a single season … owns LSU single-season record with 47 stolen bases in 2019 … also swiped 42 bas es as a sophomore … owned 79 career multi-hit games, the third-highest total in LSU history.
Graduated with a degree in mass communications from LSU … sister, A.J., played soft ball at LSU from 2011-15 and competed in Athletes Unlimited’s inaugural championship season … earned nickname “Air Aliyah” for her spectacular diving catches, which have been featured as part of ESPN’s SportsCenter Top 10.
2022 Championship Season: Member of 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defen sive Team who tallied 924 leaderboard points, including 254 stat points … started all 15 games and finished with .277 batting average … also tallied two home runs with 13 runs batted in … posted a home run in back-to-back games to end Week Two … posted three multi-hit performances … hit safely in six consecutive games from Aug. 6-19 … went 2-for-4 with a home run and four runs batted in against Team Jaquish on Aug. 6 … closed Week Two with two hits and three RBI against Team Mulipola … posted a double and three runs batted in against Team Chidester on Aug. 13 … ended Week Three with a pair of hits against Team Mulipola
2022 AUX Season: Finished 14th in the league standings with 1,042 leaderboard points … starter in all 12 games who hit .244 with 10 hits, including four extra-base hits … tied for the league lead with three home runs while driving in six runs … closed season with five-game hitting streak, including two-hit performance against Team O’Toole on June 23 … hit three-run home run with two outs in the seventh inning against Team Ocasio on June 13.
2021 Championship Season: Earned 764 leaderboard points in her second Athletes Unlimited season … hit .194 with seven hits in 36 at-bats over 13 games, including 12 starts … tied for ninth in the league with three doubles.
2020 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,150 points during inaugural season to finish in 26th place on the leaderboard … batted .295 with 13 hits in 44 at-bats while starting all 15 games … tied for fifth in the league with three doubles … drew six walks to finish tied for sixth among all players … one of 11 players to register a sacrifice fly.
Helped Team USA win gold medals at the WBSC World Championship and USA Soft ball International Cup events in 2018 … hit .286 with a home run and five runs batted in during USA Softball International Cup … also served as a replacement player for Team USA during 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
No. 8 overall selection in 2014 NPF Draft by the Pennsylvania Rebellion … played four NPF seasons, tallying 27 home runs and 110 runs batted in during 170 games … hit .241 with three home runs and 13 runs batted in over 32 games during rookie season … spent next two years with the Chicago Bandits and appeared in 90 games … enjoyed best NPF season in 2016 after accumulating 10 home runs and 34 RBI in 43 games while hitting .353 … closed NPF career in 2017 with the Scrap Yard Dawgs and authored a .243 batting average with five home runs and 34 runs batted in over career-best 48 games … played two seasons for Scrap Yard Fastpitch, an independent team in Conroe, Texas … member of “This Is Us Softball” team in summer of 2020 … spent two seasons overseas in the Japanese Professional League with Team Denso-Bright Pegasus.
Four-year starter for the Huskers from 2011-14 who finished her career with 17 Nebraska records … also held a pair of NCAA marks at the end of her career … boasted .327 ca reer batting average with 54 home runs and 202 runs batted in … hit over .300 in three of her four seasons, including .356 mark as a freshman in 2011 … also fashioned .987 career fielding percentage … first catcher in program history to earn NFCA All-America honors … received Third-Team All-America distinction as a freshman in 2011 before elevating to First-Team All-America during her senior season … honored as Diamond Sports/NFCA Division I Catcher of the Year in 2014, becoming the first Nebraska player to win the award … two-time First-Team All-Big Ten honoree … closed her career as the school’s all-time leader in home runs (54), grand slams (4), walks (150) and times being hit by a pitch (39) … also held three single-season school records and four single-game marks … finished second in program history in runs batted in (202) while her 177 runs scored and 423 total bases stand third on the Huskers’ career annals … set NCAA record by hitting a home run in six consecutive games from Feb. 13-20, 2011 … also blasted two grand slams in the same game during the 2013 season to establish national single-game mark … joined Ali Viola as the only players in Nebraska history to register more than 150 career hits, runs scored and runs batted in … only Husker to record multiple seasons with 15 or more home runs … joined twin sister, Tatum, as the third and fourth players in program history to post three seasons with 10 or more home runs … one of two players in program history with 40 career doubles and 40 career home runs … member of 2013 Women’s College World Series
All-Tournament Team … finalist for 2011 USA Softball Player of the Year award.
Grew up playing softball with her twin sister, Tatum, who will be a facilitator for the 2022 AUX and Softball Championship seasons … played together at Nebraska in addition to three seasons in NPF with the Pennsylvania Rebellion and Chicago Bandits … younger sister, Tristen, also played softball at Nebraska … majored in sociology at Nebraska … hobbies include fishing, being outdoors and spending time with her family … also considers herself a huge animal lover … dream job is to be a professional angler or live off the land.
POSITION: Catcher HEIGHT: 5-3 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Chula Vista, Calif. COLLEGE: Arizona State
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,102 leaderboard points while starting 12of-14 games … fashioned .282 batting average with nine hits, including a double, and three runs batted in … drove in three runs and contributed a double against Team Chidester to close Week Three … ended season with a hit in four of her final five games … collected two hits against Team Mulipola on Aug. 6.
2022 AUX Season: Compiled 720 leaderboard points during inaugural AUX Softball season … starter in 10 games who tallied two hits, including a home run, with six runs batted in … belted first grand slam in AUX Softball history in fourth inning against Team Mulipola on June 19 … joined Courtney Gano as the only players in the league to drive in five or more runs in a game with five RBI against Team Mulipola on June 19 … also joined Gano as the only players to record a grand slam during the season.
2021 Championship Season: Finished with 934 leaderboard points in her second Athletes Unlimited campaign … fashioned .206 batting average while starting 13-of-14 games … tallied seven hits, including two home runs, in 34 at-bats.
2020 Championship Season: Tallied 670 points on inaugural season leaderboard … fashioned .250 batting average with six hits in 24 at-bats while starting 10-of-13 games … ranked second in the league with nine walks.
Member of Team Mexico who played in World Cup of Softball in 2014 and 2015 … recorded seven hits with a home run and four runs batted in during 2017 Canada Cup … also competed in 2017 and 2019 Pan American Games with Team Mexico … won a Silver medal during 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games … led Team Mexico to fourth place finish at 2020 Tokyo Olympics, hitting .222 in five games.
Began her professional career with the NPF’s Chicago Bandits in 2018, batting .275 with one home run and six runs batted in … played for the Cleveland Comets during the 2019 campaign.
Four-year letter winner for the Sun Devils who started 146-of-163 games from 2014-17 … posted .322 career batting average with 18 home runs and 88 runs batted in … tallied 133 hits, including 19 doubles … earned First-Team All-Pac 12 honors as a senior after hitting .322 with 10 home runs and 40 RBI.
Has been playing softball since the age of four … lists qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with Team Mexico as her proudest athletic accomplishment … hobbies in clude spending time with family, reading and going to the beach … inspired to work hard by her family, especially her parents … younger sister, Sharlize, is a catcher on the Arizona softball team … father, Francisco, was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft and was picked by the Detroit Tigers in the 1993 MLB Draft.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-7 BATS/THROWS: L/L HOMETOWN: Gahanna, Ohio COLLEGE: Marshall
2022 Championship Season: Finished rookie season with 1,024 leaderboard points … appeared in 10 games with four starts … drew two walks and was hit by a pitch once … secured season-high 120 leaderboard points on Aug. 21 against Team McCleney.
2022 AUX Season: Placed 23rd in the league standings with 848 leaderboard points while making professional debut … starter in 7-of-12 contests who finished with .217 batting average … tallied five hits, including a pair of doubles, and scored six runs … posted first multi-hit effort of professional career in June 25 season finale against Team Zerkle, going 2-for-3 with a double and a run scored.
Five-year letter winner for the Thundering Herd who started 215-of-220 games from 2018-22 … authored .390 career batting average with 53 home runs and 220 runs batted in … also tallied 222 hits, including 47 doubles … one of 12 players in program history to accrue 200 or more career hits … ranks third on Marshall’s career home runs list … first-ever Marshall student-athlete to win Senior CLASS Award … named First-Team Senior CLASS Award All-American in 2022 … four-time NFCA All-Region se lection, including back-to-back First Team nods in 2021 and 2022 … four-time All-Con ference USA First Team performer who garnered C-USA Rookie of the Year status in 2018 … closed her career ranked among Marshall’s all-time leaders in batting average (fifth), hits (eighth), runs scored (sixth), doubles (third), home runs (third) and runs batted in (tied for second) … also owns Thundering Herd’s career record with 175 walks and .562 on-base percentage … just the third player in Marshall history to reach base in 200 or more career games … holds Marshall single-season record with .602 on-base percentage during COVID-shortened 2020 campaign … one of two players in Marshall history to drive in at least one run in 100 games … also one of two players in school history to finish their career with a .700 slugging percentage and a .500 on-base per centage … posted 59 career multi-hit games, including 19 outings as a fifth-year senior … tied program single-season record by striking out just three times in 94 at-bats during the 2021 campaign … set a single-season school record with NCAA-leading 68 walks during sophomore campaign … belted 11 home runs during freshman year to set Mar shall rookie record … drew a walk in eight consecutive games from Mar. 24-Apr. 7, 2018 to establish a new program mark.
Has three older siblings … earned her undergraduate degree in biology … pursuing a post baccalaureate certificate in the College of Science at Marshall … spent her spare time at Marshall volunteering with local little league teams … also served as a volunteer at VA hospitals along with the Hoops Children’s Hospital … spent time at a local animal shelter and was involved with the Marshall Sweetheart Clinic.
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2022 Championship Season: First position player in Athletes Unlimited Softball history to win individual title after compiling 1,782 leaderboard points … first player in AU history to lead league in batting average (.432), home runs (9) and runs batted in (19) during the same season … also tallied two triples … posted seven multi-hit games, including three hits against Team Eberle in Week Two … hit safely in six straight games from Aug. 6-19 … posted .435 average (10-for-23) during the streak with three multi-hit games … hit seven home runs in final nine games, including a home run in four straight games from Aug. 12-19 … secured individual title on final day of the season after going 2-for-2 with a tri ple, a home run, two walks and three runs scored against Team Chidester … registered season-high 246 leaderboard points to pass Alyssa Denham in the league standings.
2022 AUX Season: Secured third place in the league standings with 1,368 leaderboard points … held overall lead after 3-of-9 game days … recognized as a game MVP four times, good for a share of second in the league … started 11-of-12 games … tied for league lead with 11 runs batted in while hitting .325 with 13 hits … fashioned at least one hit in 7-of-12 games, including two multi-hit outings … also shared league lead with three home runs … scored league-high 14 runs … led league by driving in two or more runs in a game five times … went 4-for-4, including a home run and a triple, with leaguehigh four runs scored against Team Eberle on June 14 … joined Victoria Hayward as the only players to record a four-hit game during the season .. also registered a three-hit performance on June 15 against Team Eberle with two runs batted in.
2021 Championship Season: Earned 1,320 leaderboard points in her rookie season … registered .325 batting average while starting 13-of-14 games … posted 13 hits, in cluding six extra-base hits … led Athletes Unlimited with two triples … tied for 10th with eight runs batted in … also tallied 25 total bases to rank 10th in the league … drew six walks, which were tied for eighth in the circuit … one of 12 players selected in Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Member of Team USA since 2018 … also played for United States Junior Women’s Na tional Team in 2017 … guided team to Silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics … went 1-for-2 with a run scored against Mexico … competed for Team USA at The 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. … All-World Team selection after leading Team USA to Gold medal … led tournament field in batting average (.615), hits (8) and on-base percentage (.667) … recorded four multi-hit games in five appearances.
Four-year letter winner for the Wildcats who started all 237 games from 2017-21 … sat out 2020 season to compete in Team USA’s “Stand Beside Her” Tour and train for the Tokyo Olympics … accrued .335 career batting average with 68 home runs and 203 runs batted in … tallied 219 hits, including 33 doubles and six triples, while scoring 192 runs … stands ninth on Wildcats’ career home runs list … ranks 10th in program history with .716 career slugging percentage … stands eighth on Arizona’s career list with 131 walks … posted perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 227 chances as a senior … tied for first in Arizona history with .997 career fielding percentage … honored as John ny Bench Catcher of the Year in 2019 … two-time selection as NFCA Catcher of the Year … earned First-Team NFCA All-America distinction as a junior and senior … threetime First-Team NFCA All-Region honoree … received All-Pac-12 honors three times, including First-Team commendations in 2019 and 2021 … led Pac-12 Conference as a senior in home runs (21), RBI (63), walks (34) and on-base percentage (.518) … became first Arizona catcher to earn First-Team All-America notice since 1998 during her junior season after compiling .311 batting average with 23 home runs in 62 games … named Second-Team All-Pac-12 as a sophomore who earned spot on Pac-12 All-Defensive Team … NFCA Division I Freshman of the Year finalist in 2017 after hitting .335 with 12 home runs and 49 runs batted in.
Has two sisters and two brothers … both of her sisters play softball … hobbies include baking and cooking … joined softball coaching staff at Kansas City as a volunteer assis tant coach on Sept. 9, 2022.
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POSITION: Pitcher HEIGHT: 5-7 BATS/THROWS: R/L HOMETOWN: Orange, Calif. COLLEGE: Michigan
2022 Championship Season: Third-year pitcher who garnered 764 leaderboard points … made nine appearances in the circle with six starts … posted 1-2 record with 7.92 earned run average … collected 13 strikeouts over 20.1 innings, including trio of three-strikeout performances … threw season-high 5.1 innings against Team Harshman during Week Two.
2022 AUX Season: Placed 17th in the league standings with 1,024 leaderboard points … compiled 2-0 record with 3.00 earned run average in five appearances, including three starts … scattered 17 hits over 18.2 innings with eight earned runs … threw at least 4.0 innings in four of her five appearances … posted season-high six strikeouts against Team Mulipola in June 18 victory … earned win in relief against Team Ocasio on June 13 after allowing one unearned run and two hits in 2.0 innings.
2021 Championship Season: Finished in 18th place on the leaderboard with 1,320 points … tied for ninth with 1,050 win points … fifth in the league with 11 appearances in the circle … ranked seventh with 3.61 earned run average in 31.0 innings … posted 2-2 record with a save … one of four pitchers to record a save … tied for third in the league with 23 strikeouts.
2020 Championship Season: Ranked 10th on the inaugural season leaderboard with 1,662 points … accumulated 472 stat points to finish eighth among all athletes … tied for sixth with 180 MVP points … made 12 appearances in the circle, including nine starts … third in the league with 3.13 earned run average while authoring 5-4 record … ranked second among all pitchers with three complete games … tied for second with 62.0 innings pitched … conceded 67 hits and 28 earned runs … third in the loop with 31 strikeouts.
Accumulated 30 wins and 11 saves over five NPF seasons after being signed by the Pennsylvania Rebellion in 2015 … authored 11-5 record in 2017 with 51 strikeouts over 90.3 innings … posted 6-2 mark in 2018 with 33 strikeouts while throwing 44.0 innings.
Four-year letter winner for the Wolverines from 2012-15 who played in 162 games with 121 starts … authored 100-18 career record in the circle with a 1.82 earned run average … also registered 20 career shutouts along with 66 complete games and seven saves … struck out 518 hitters in 720.0 innings … also tallied .164 average as a hitter with seven home runs and 32 runs batted in … two-time NFCA All-America selection, including Second-Team notice as a junior … also tabbed Third-Team All-America during senior season … three-time NFCA All-Region honoree … named Big Ten Pitcher and Freshman of the Year in 2012 … four-time All-Big Ten selection who received First-Team commen dations as a freshman and senior … member of 2015 Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team.
Inspired by her parents and grandmother … hobbies include working out, outdoor ac tivities, baking, cooking and spending time with family and friends … motivated by mak ing her family proud by pushing herself beyond limits … majored in general studies at Michigan … received her Master’s degree in Social Work from Michigan in 2020 while working as a graduate manager for the Wolverines’ softball team … sister, Kylie, played softball at UNLV from 2010-12 … brother, Tyler, played baseball at Georgetown College and was recipient of 2019 ABCA-Rawlings NAIA Gold Glove at third base.
2022 Championship Season: Collected 1,046 leaderboard points … started all 15 games and posted .319 batting average with two home runs and six runs batted in … one of six players to record a sacrifice fly … tied for ninth in the league with nine walks … stole three bases in four attempts … posted four multi-hit games, including back-to-back two-hit outings to end Week One … drove in three runs as part of 2-for-3 performance against Team Chidester on July 30 … also had two hits, including a home run, with three runs scored in Week One finale against Team Eberle … tallied a hit in seven of final eight games, including two hits in season finale against Team Chidester … served as a team captain during Week One.
2022 AUX Season: Placed fourth in the league standings with 1,338 leaderboard points … earned three game MVP commendations … batted .385 while starting all 12 games … accumulated 15 hits, including two doubles and a home run … recorded five runs batted in while scoring nine times … served as a team captain during final series of the season … tied with Sam Fischer for second in the league with six multi-hit outings … hit a three-run home run against Team Mulipola on June 18 … closed season with eight hits over final four games, including three-hit performance against Team Fischer on June 25 in 10-inning season finale … scored at least one run in 8-of-12 games … served as a team captain during final series of the season.
2021 Championship Season: Finished sixth in the league with 1,576 leaderboard points … ranked seventh with 1,120 win points and 376 stat points … authored .300 bat ting average while starting 14 games … third in the league with 50 at-bats … collected 12 runs, which were tied for fourth in the circuit … registered 15 hits to rank eighth in the circuit … drove in 14 runs, good for third in Athletes Unlimited … tied with Amanda Lorenz for sixth in the league with 29 total bases … went perfect 6-for-6 in stolen base attempts.
2020 Championship Season: Earned share of fifth place on the inaugural leaderboard with 1,710 points … tallied 1,360 win points to finish third on the league leader list … post ed .426 batting average with .511 on-base percentage … collected 20 hits, including three for extra bases … one of four players to record 20 hits … also one of 12 players to register a triple … tied for league lead with seven stolen bases in seven attempts … also tallied two sacrifice hits to tie for second in the league with six other players.
Member of Team USA who earned Silver medal at World Cup of Softball and Japan Cup events in 2017 … hit .500 during 2017 World Cup of Softball with two runs scored and two runs batted in … also competed in 2016 World Cup of Softball as a member of USA Elite Team.
No. 26 overall selection in 2017 NPF Draft by Scrap Yard Dawgs.
Four-year letter winner for the Thundering Herd from 2014-17 … one of three players in school history to earn NFCA All-America honors after receiving Second-Team recog nition in 2017 … started 193-of-194 career games … authored school-record .451 career batting average with 13 home runs and 104 runs batted in … also scored 181 runs while registering 289 hits, including 25 doubles and school-record 14 triples … tied for third on school’s career stolen base percentage ledger with .876 (162-of-185) … one of 13 players in school history with 100 or more career RBI … holds three of the top four single-season batting average marks in school history, including program-record .506 average as a sophomore … also set single-season records with 89 hits and 62 runs scored in 2015 … one of three players in Marshall history to record multiple seasons with 40 or more stolen bases … ranks second on school’s career hits, stolen bases and runs scored lists … third in Marshall history with 381 career total bases … reached safe ly in 176-of-194 career games and tallied 88 multi-hit games, including school-record 34 three-hit efforts … also tied for first in career multi-run games (48) … Marshall sin gle-game record holder with five hits against Bucknell on Feb. 14, 2015 … stole at least one base in 100 career games, the second-highest total in program history … opened 2015 season with at least one hit in 27 consecutive games, the longest streak in Mar shall history … also fashioned seven straight multi-hit efforts during the streak, which is tied for first in the program’s record book … stole a base in first 12 games of 2015 season to set school record … led NCAA with 48 stolen bases during 2015 season … earned First-Team NFCA All-Region commendations as a sophomore, junior and senior … three-time First-Team All-Conference USA selection who earned Player of the Year honors in 2017 … CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-America recipient as a sophomore … finalist for Senior CLASS Award in 2017 … two-time recipient of Conference USA’s Spirit of Service Award.
Currently working as an assistant coach at Miami University, leading the Redhawks to back-to-back Mid-American Conference championships … graduated from Marshall with a degree in exercise science with a concentration in clinical exercise psychology … earned her Master’s degree in kinesiology in 2019 with an emphasis in athletic ad ministration and sport management.
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POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-4 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Bonita, Calif. COLLEGE: Utah
2022 Championship Season: Honored as 2022 Athletes Unlimited GEICO Defensive Player of the Year … member of Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team … fash ioned .983 fielding percentage with just one error in 59 chances … also involved in league-high eight double plays … started all 15 games and hit .306 with two home runs and six runs batted in … opened season with eight-game hitting streak, including four multi-hit games … went 3-for-5 with a home run, two runs scored and two runs batted in against Team Jaquish on Aug. 13 en route to season-high 210 leaderboard points … also had three hits with two runs batted in against Team Zerkle to finish Week One … opened Week Two with a home run against Team Mulipola.
2021 Championship Season: Finished 28th on the leaderboard with 1,146 points … starter in all 15 games who hit .267 in 45 at-bats, including a home run … also drove in five runs … tied for third in the league by being hit by a pitch twice … went 2-for-4 in stolen base attempts.
2020 Championship Season: Tallied 1,420 leaderboard points during inaugural sea son to finish in 19th place … one of four players to compile 500 or more stat points … started all 15 games … batted .340 with six home runs and 18 runs batted in … tied for the league lead with 53 at-bats … ranked second in the circuit with 18 runs batted in … belted six home runs, which tied for third in Athletes Unlimited … tied for fourth with seven walks and 15 runs scored … went 4-for-5 in stolen base attempts … one of 12 players to post at least one triple.
Member of Team USA from 2016-18 … competed in 2016 World Cup of Softball with Women’s Elite Team … hit .500 (6-for-12) with two runs, four runs batted in and four runs scored … won Silver medal at 2017 World Cup of Softball … member of Gold medal-win ning team at 2017 Pan American Championship who batted .273 with five runs and two doubles … earned Bronze medal at 2018 USA Softball International Cup and led tourna ment with 20 RBI while hitting .609 … led Team USA to Canada Cup title by hitting .458 (11-for-24) with five doubles and four home runs … competed for Team USA at The 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. … led Team USA to Gold medal by hitting .250 (4-for12) with two home runs and four runs batted in over five games … one of four players in the tournament with multiple home runs … also paced tournament field with four walks.
Played for the NPF champion Scrap Yard Dawgs in 2017 … hit .327 with two home runs and six runs batted in while appearing in 19 games … competed for Hitachi Sundivas of the Japan Diamond League in 2022.
Four-year letter winner for the Utes who played 219 games from 2014-17 … authored .390 career batting average with 33 home runs and 145 runs batted in … tallied 261 hits, including 35 doubles and 13 triples, while scoring 197 runs … three-time NFCA All-Amer ica selection who earned First-Team distinction as a junior and senior … two-time Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year … earned NFCA All-Region and All-Pac 12 notice four times … three-time Pac-12 All-Defensive Team honoree … named 2017 Pac-12 Defen sive Player of the Year … garnered pair of First-Team CoSIDA Academic All-America awards … owns Utah career records in batting average, hits and runs scored … tied for third on Utes’ career triples list … also tied for fifth in career home runs at Utah … drew 105 career walks, the third-highest total in program history … ranked sixth in NCAA Di vision I as a freshman with six triples en route to Pac 12 All-Freshman Team recognition.
Graduated from Utah with a degree in human development and family studies … moth er, Mary Lou Flippen, was an All-America softball player at Utah State and led Aggies to national titles in 1980 and 1981 … favorite softball memory is hosting NCAA Regionals in Utah and beating BYU to advance to the Super Regionals.
POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-8 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Wayne, Okla. COLLEGE: Oklahoma
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,312 leaderboard points to finish 19th in the league standings … started 10-of-14 games and produced six hits, including three doubles, a triple and two home runs … also drove in five runs … tallied three hits, in cluding two doubles and a home run, and scored three runs against Team Chidester during Week Four … also registered a two-run home run in Week Four opener against Team Jaquish.
2022 AUX Season: Finished in 24th place in the league standings with 836 leader board points … started 11-of-12 games … posted .242 batting average with eight hits, including two doubles and a triple … also drew five walks … posted at least one hit in each of the three games during the opening series, including a two-hit performance against Team Chidester on June 14 … also had two hits against Team Gibson to close Series Two.
2021 Championship Season: Finished with 1,144 leaderboard points during her second Athletes Unlimited season … batted .310 with 13 hits, including six extra-base hits … tied for fifth in the league with four doubles … also tied for fourth with eight walks.
2020 Championship Season: Opened Athletes Unlimited career with 910 leaderboard points … tallied 10 hits in 43 at-bats while starting all 15 games … tied for sixth in the league after being hit by a pitch twice … fourth in the league with 11 strikeouts.
No. 9 overall selection by the Chicago Bandits in the 2019 NPF Draft … did not commit an error during the 2019 campaign, recording 13 putouts and 10 assists.
Four-year letter winner for the Sooners who started 249-of-254 career games from 2016-19 … fashioned .348 batting average with 37 home runs and 164 runs batted in … also scored 234 runs while registering 228 hits, including 48 doubles and nine triples … two-time NFCA All-America selection … unanimous First-Team All-America pick as a senior … also received Second-Team All-America notice during sophomore season … four-time NFCA All-Region performer, including First-Team honors in 2016, 2017 and 2019 … four-time All-Big 12 Conference player, including First-Team recognition in 2019 … named 2019 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year … finished career as Oklahoma’s alltime leader by being hit by a pitch 65 times … also ranked second in program history in career runs scored … stands among Sooners’ career leaders in walks (164), on-base percentage (.513), doubles (48), games played (254) and stolen bases (55) … served as a team captain in 2019 while starting 62 games at second base … set Oklahoma single-season record during sophomore year after being hit by a pitch 26 times … twotime CoSIDA Academic All-District selection.
Proudest moment is playing four years at Oklahoma while learning from the coaching staff … hobbies include snowboarding and spending time with friends and family … sister, Chloe, played softball at Seminole State College.
2022 Championship Season: Third-year performer who collected 14th place in the league standings with 1,426 leaderboard points … sixth in the league with 1,100 win points … tied for ninth in the league with three home runs … starter in all 15 games who hit .279 with 12 hits and eight runs batted in … tallied season-high three hits against Team Jaquish to end Week Three … opened Week Five with a home run in back-toback games against Team Chidester and Team Mulipola … also had a home run in Week Two opener against Team Mulipola.
2022 AUX Season: Accrued 520 leaderboard points during inaugural AUX Softball season … started all 12 games … posted .200 batting average with seven hits, including two home runs … also drove in seven runs while scoring four times … hit first extra-in ning home run in Athletes Unlimited Softball history against Team Zerkle on June 25, blasting a two-run shot to left field in the ninth inning … also hit a home run against Team O’Toole in first game of June 25 doubleheader while driving in season-high three runs … opened season with four-game hitting streak, going 5-for-12 with two runs bat ted in and two runs scored.
2021 Championship Season: Finished in 10th place on the leaderboard with 1,464 points and 354 stat points … tied for fifth with 140 MVP points … member of inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team … hit .347 while starting 14-of-15 games … fourth in the league with 49 at-bats … tied for third with 17 hits, including four home runs … drove in nine runs to earn a share of eighth in the circuit … accumulated 34 total bases to finish second in Athletes Unlimited.
2020 Championship Season: Finished in a tie for fifth place on the league leaderboard with 1,710 points … shared top honors with Cat Osterman after accumulating 1,380 win points … batted .262 with 11 hits and nine runs scored … also belted three home runs with 11 runs batted in … third in the league with eight walks … one of 11 players to register a sacrifice fly … posted two sacrifice flies to earn share of second place in the league.
Member of USA Women’s Elite Team during the summer of 2016 … also served as an alternate for Team USA at The 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala.
Made professional debut in 2018 in NPF with the Chicago Bandits … boasted .269 batting average with one home run and six runs batted in as a rookie in 2018 … earned All-NPF recognition in 2019.
Four-year letter winner for the Ducks who started 197-of-217 career games from 201518 … finished career with .337 batting average, 45 home runs and 169 runs batted in … also registered 189 hits, including 26 doubles and four triples, while scoring 132 runs … ranks among Oregon’s career leaders in runs batted in, home runs and walks … named to NFCA All-America First Team as a senior after hitting .324 with 17 home runs and 60 RBI … selected as 2018 NFCA Catcher of the Year … three-time NFCA All-Region honoree … two-time All-Pac-12 Conference performer who received First-Team distinc tion in senior campaign … member of 2015 Pac-12 All-Freshman Team … earned spot on 2018 Pac-12 All-Defense Team … holds Oregon single-game record with nine RBI against Oregon State on Mar. 15, 2015 … ranks second on Ducks’ single-season list with 17 home runs during 2018 campaign … led Oregon in home runs as a junior and senior.
Currently works as Manager of Player Care and Coordination for Athletes Unlimited … hobbies include yoga, shopping for records, reading and journaling … motivated to be the very best and believes if she does her part, she will pave the way for the next gen eration to dream bigger than they currently can … daughter of Holly and Steve Svekis … has one older sister.
2022 Championship Season: Second-year performer who accumulated 1,136 leader board points while seeing action in 12 games … made nine appearances in the circle with five starts … posted 0-1 record with two saves while finishing with 5.25 earned run average … registered season-high 3.1 innings against Team Jaquish on Aug. 13 with three strikeouts … also had three strikeouts against Team Zerkle in Week One finale … conceded two hits over 3.0 innings in season debut against Team Ocasio on July 30 … also threw 3.0 innings in Week Two finale against Team Harshman … also regis tered three hits in eight at-bats at the plate, including a double against Team McCleney during Week Five opener.
2021 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,300 leaderboard points to finish 22nd in the league standings … tied for ninth in the league with 1,050 win points … appeared in nine games in the circle with five starts … posted 2-1 record in 26.0 innings … ranked fifth in the league with 22 strikeouts … also went 2-for-5 at the plate with a double and a run scored.
Appeared in seven games at 2022 Canada Cup while helping Team USA win Gold medal.
Competed for USSSA Pride during 2021 season … threw first professional no-hitter against the Carolina Collegiate League on Aug. 5, 2021, with 11 strikeouts and just one walk.
Five-year letter winner who started 207-of-208 games for the Dukes from 2017-21 … also ranks third in school history with 139 appearances in the circle, including 102 starts … fashioned .337 career batting average … ranks fourth in program history with 39 career home runs while her 164 career runs batted in are good for fourth place … tallied 203 hits, including 31 doubles and three triples, while scoring 128 runs … ranks eighth in school history with .592 career slugging percentage and 357 total bases … also stands 10th in JMU history with .428 career on-base percentage … excelled in the circle with 81-18 career record while authoring a 2.18 earned run average, which ranks 10th on Dukes’ career list … accrued 712 strikeouts in 640.0 innings with 55 complete games and 29 shutouts … held opponents to .190 batting average, the fourth-best mark on the Dukes’ career list … third in school history with 81 career victories … registered six career saves, which are tied for fifth on the Dukes’ annals … also stands third in program history in complete games, shutouts, strikeouts and innings pitched … set school record with 19 strikeouts against Liberty on May 21, 2021 … owns three career games with 15 or more strikeouts … threw two solo no-hitters in her career, including a perfect game against the College of Charleston on May 1, 2021 … also had a no-hitter against Delaware in the 2021 Colonial Athletic Association Tournament … named Most Outstanding Performer at 2019 CAA Tournament … also earned spot on 2021 Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team … three-time NFCA All-America selection, including Second-Team distinction in 2021 … also claimed First-Team CAA recognition three times … earned CAA Player of the Year honors in 2018 and 2019 … selected as CAA Pitcher of the Year during her final year with the Dukes … named 2017 CAA Rookie of the Year … secured NFCA All-Region notice four times, including a trio of First-Team commendations.
Majored in sport and recreation management at James Madison … has two older broth ers and two younger sisters … brother, Isaiah, played basketball at Kansas State … also played on varsity basketball and volleyball teams in high school … named as an assis tant softball coach at Howard University on Aug. 15, 2022.
POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-5 BATS/THROWS: L/L HOMETOWN: Moorpark, Calif. COLLEGE: Florida
2022 Championship Season: Second-year performer who finished in ninth place on the leaderboard with 1,514 points … also ranked ninth in the league with 384 stat points … one of three players in the league with 200 or more MVP points … starter in 13 games who hit .300 with three home runs and 14 runs batted in … posted four multi-hit games, including season-high three hits against Team Chidester on Aug. 13 … went 3-for-4 with three runs batted in and two runs scored en route to 168 leaderboard points … regis tered season-high 256 leaderboard points after going 2-for-3, including a triple and a home run, with three runs scored and six runs batted in against Team Chidester on Aug. 20 … closed season with 100 or more leaderboard points in seven of final eight games.
2022 AUX Season: Finished in 20th place on the leaderboard with 886 points … starter in all 12 games who hit .308 with 12 hits, including a double and two home runs … also drove in five runs while scoring nine times … ranked second in the league by drawing seven walks … tallied at least one hit in 8-of-12 games, including back-to-back three-hit performances against Team Eberle on June 13 and Team Chidester on June 14 … hit solo home run against Team Fischer in Series Two opener on June 18 … also had a solo home run against Team Fischer during June 23 doubleheader.
2021 Championship Season: Earned 11th place in the leaderboard standings with 1,404 points … eighth in the league with 364 stat points … also tied for fifth with 140 MVP points … one of three outfielders named to inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team … hit .235 while starting 14-of-15 games … posted 14 hits, seven for extra bases … drove in league-best 16 runs … second in the league with 51 at-bats … scored 10 runs to tie for eighth in Athletes Unlimited … tied with Ali Aguilar for second in the league with five home runs … drew eight walks and compiled 29 total bases.
Competed in 2018 USA Softball International Cup, posting .200 batting average with one home run and four runs batted in for Team USA … also participated in 2018 Japan All-Star Series … member of 2016 USA Women’s Elite Team and 2018 USA Blue roster … competed for Team USA at The 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. … helped Team USA win Gold medal by hitting .294 (5-for-17) with a double and a run batted in … opened tournament with back-to-back two-hit performances against Italy and Chinese Taipei.
No. 2 overall selection in the 2019 NPF Draft by the USSSA Pride … helped the Pride win the Cowles Cup during her rookie campaign.
Four-year letter winner for the Gators who started all 260 games from 2016-19 … fin ished career with .406 batting average, 40 home runs and 192 runs batted in … tallied 294 hits, including 59 doubles and 12 triples, while scoring 245 runs … finalist for 2018 Collegiate Women Sports Award presented by Honda … named 2018 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year … also claimed NFCA and SEC Freshman of the Year recognition in 2016 … member of 2017 Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team … four-time NFCA All-America performer who was named to First Team as a sophomore, junior and senior … earned First-Team All-Region and All-SEC distinction all four years … selected as Most Valuable Player of the 2018 SEC Tournament … garnered SEC All-Defensive Team commendation at first base during senior season … holds Flor ida career records in batting average, on-base percentage, doubles and walks … also ranks second in school history with .995 fielding percentage, 223 hits and 507 total bases while her 248 career runs scored stand third on the all-time list … owns four of the top 10 single-season batting averages and walk totals in program history … set school records with .582 on-base percentage and 70 walks during junior campaign … scored 75 runs in 2018, which are tied for second on Gators’ single-season list.
Member of Athletes Unlimited Softball Player Executive Committee … enjoys spending time with her teammates … describes herself as a ranch connoisseur and softball nerd.
POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-7 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: San Jose, Calif. COLLEGE: California
ATHLETE CAUSE: Chapter 510
2022 Championship Season: Third-year outfielder who secured 1,092 leaderboard points … started all 15 games and authored .234 batting average with three doubles and eight runs batted in … collected two hits and scored two runs in Week Two against Team Harshman … drove in two runs in Week Two finale against Team Eberle … also collected two RBI in season finale against Team Mulipola … registered a hit in four of final five games, including all three outings during Week Five.
2022 AUX Season: Compiled 740 leaderboard points during inaugural AUX Softball season … starter in 11 games who hit .333 with 12 hits, including a double and a triple … also drove in three runs in addition to scoring three runs … registered at least one hit in 11 consecutive games to finish the season … hit a triple against Team Zerkle on June 24 … also recorded a double on June 20 against Team Mulipola in second game of doubleheader.
2021 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,088 leaderboard points in her second Athletes Unlimited season … hit . 235 with eight hits, including a double and a home run … tied for fifth in the league with two stolen bases.
2020 Championship Season: Tallied 1,000 leaderboard points during inaugural cam paign … appeared in 13 games and registered .233 batting average with one home run and eight runs batted in … tied for fifth in the league with three doubles … one of 12 players to register a triple … hit first grand slam in Athletes Unlimited history against Team Pendley on Aug. 29, 2020.
Member of Team USA from 2016-19 who earned gold medal at 2016 World Champi onships after hitting .591 with eight runs batted in … also led Team USA to Gold medal at 2015 WBSC Junior Women’s World Championship after going 3-for-8 with nine runs batted in and 14 runs scored … also competed in World Cup of Softball from 2015-17 … member of 2017 Gold medal-winning Pan American Championship team … two-time participant at USA Softball International Cup, winning a Gold and Bronze medal.
Played two seasons for Scrap Yard Fastpitch from 2018-19 … also competed for Forli of Italian Softball League in 2018.
Four-year letter winner for the Golden Bears from 2015-18 … three-time NFCA All-Re gion First Team performer … earned All-Pac-12 commendations four times, including First-Team honors as a sophomore and senior … ranks third in program history with 279 career hits … also stands fifth on Golden Bears’ career ledger with 43 doubles … hit .369 during her career, which is tied for third in California history … led Golden Bears in hits three times … holds share of third place on school’s single-season list with 83 hits during 2015 campaign … also stands second on single-season ledger after hitting .446 as a freshman … posted team-high 17 doubles and 33 runs batted in during junior season.
Member of Athletes Unlimited Player Executive Committee … inaugural recipient of Athletes Unlimited Civic Leadership Award … studied business at California … currently works as Manager of Civic Leadership for Athletes Unlimited … owns her own business, VIA, which is devoted to empowering girls to trust in themselves and create a life they love from lessons learned through the power of sports … enjoys reading, dancing, serv ing in her community and spending time with friends and family … also likes to travel and experience different cultures.
POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-5 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Winder, Ga. COLLEGE: Georgia
2022 Championship Season: Third-year outfielder who finished with 990 leaderboard points … registered seven hits with nine runs scored while starting 14 games … posted 100 or more leaderboard points in a game six times, including each of the final three outings … tallied season-high 140 leaderboard points against Team Mulipola on Aug. 27 … hit safely in four of first six games, including a double in season opener against Team Ocasio.
2022 AUX Season: Placed 19th on the leaderboard after earning 912 points … starter in 11-of-12 games who batted .372 … third in the league with 16 hits, including a double and league-high three home runs … also finished in the circuit with 10 runs batted in … scored seven times and drew five walks … tied for fourth place in the league with five multi-hit games … tallied at least one hit in 11-of-12 games, including the first outings in a row … started season with a home run in back-to-back games … also belted a solo home run against Team Gibson on June 19 in addition to scoring two runs.
2021 Championship Season: Tallied 1,054 leaderboard points during her second Ath letes Unlimited season … hit .362 while starting 14-of-15 games … tied for third in the league with 17 hits in 47 at-bats … tallied four extra-base hits … one of eight players to record a triple.
2020 Championship Season: Earned 27th place on the leaderboard with 1,090 points … starter in all 15 games who tallied .347 batting average with four home runs and 11 runs batted in … tied for ninth in the league with 12 runs scored, 31 total bases and four home runs … finished in a tie for 10th place with 17 hits … drew six walks, good for a share of sixth place … one of 11 players to record a sacrifice fly … went 2-for-2 in stolen base attempts.
Honored as 2013 NPF Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year … led NPF in home runs three times … blasted league-high 12 home runs during 2012 campaign before pacing NPF with 11 home runs in 2013 … opened career with eight home runs and 22 runs batted in during 2011 season … launched 12 home runs with 35 RBI over 43 games for USSSA Pride in 2018 … earned All-NPF honors seven times … also played five years in Japanese Professional League, leading circuit in home runs three times … spent three seasons with Denso Softball Team before two years with BIC Softball Team.
Second-Team NFCA All-America selection as a senior … earned NFCA All-Region First Team honors during junior and senior campaigns … three-time First-Team All-South eastern Conference performer (2008, 2010, 2011) … ranks eighth in program history with .370 career batting average … stands sixth on Georgia’s career at-bats (743) and home runs (46) lists … one of four players in Georgia history with 200 or more career runs scored … also ranks as one of six players with 200 or more career runs batted in (203) … tied for fifth on Bulldogs’ career hits list (275) … set program record with 23 doubles during senior campaign … finished career ranked second with 61 career doubles and 14 career triples … fashioned a 22-game hitting streak from Apr. 13-June 4, 2010, which is the second-longest streak by a Georgia player … led Bulldogs to a pair of Women’s College World Series appearances.
Lists graduating college and becoming a Hall of Fame athlete in Gwinnett County as her proudest accomplishments … finds motivation by inspiring others.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-7 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Moore, Okla. COLLEGE: Florida State
2022 Championship Season: One of 13 players selected in 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft … earned 860 leaderboard points during rookie season … tallied seven hits in 26 at-bats while playing in 11 games … also drove in three runs, including two RBI against Team McCleney on Aug. 20 as part of 2-for-3 effort … collected two hits against Team Ocasio on July 31.
Competed for the USA Junior Women’s National Team during the summer of 2017 … also participated in World Cup of Softball XII, hitting .200 with three runs scored.
Five-year letter winner for the Seminoles who played in school-record 283 games from 2018-22 … stands 10th in Florida State history with .382 career batting average … posted 43 home runs with 209 runs batted in with both marks ranking third in school history … tallied 281 hits, including 82 doubles and two triples, while scoring 225 runs … holds Florida State and Atlantic Coast Conference career doubles records … also ranks second on Seminoles’ career ledger for on-base percentage (.474), runs scored (225), total bases (496), walks (186) and assists (555) … holds third place on Florida State’s alltime rankings in slugging percentage (.622) … owns Florida State single-game record with three home runs against NC State on May 7, 2022 … three-time selection as ACC Defensive Player of the Year (2019, 2021, 2022) … Second-Team All-America pick by NFCA and D1Softball.com during redshirt senior season … four-time First-Team All-ACC performer … two-time member of USA Softball Player of the Year Watch List … NFCA All-America First Team selection in 2019 after claiming Third-Team honors as a fresh man … earned ACC Freshman of the Year recognition while leading Seminoles to 2018 NCAA Division I title … member of 2018 Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team after belting two home runs with seven runs batted in … set Florida State and ACC single-season records with 29 doubles as a freshman in 2018 … also matched NCAA single-season doubles mark, tying Nina Lindenberg.
Lists winning the 2018 NCAA Championship as her greatest athletic achievement.
POSITION: Catcher HEIGHT: 5-7 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Highland, Calif. COLLEGE: LSU
2022 Championship Season: Finished fourth on the leaderboard after compiling 1,600 points … fifth in the league with 480 stat points … starter in all 15 games who hit .409 with four doubles, four home runs and 14 runs batted in … tied for third in the league with 14 runs scored and 18 hits … drew 12 walks to rank third in Athletes Unlimited … accumulated 46 total bases … hit safely in 11-of-15 outings … started season with fivegame hitting streak, including three multi-hit efforts … went 3-for-3 with a triple, two home runs and five runs batted in against Team Eberle to finish Week One … collected two hits, including a home run, with three RBI and a season-high 200 leaderboard points against Team McCleney to begin Week Three.
2021 Championship Season: Finished seventh in Athletes Unlimited Softball with 1,570 leaderboard points … tied for fourth with 1,140 win points … fifth in the circuit with 390 stat points … fashioned .333 batting average with .714 slugging percentage … tal lied 14 hits, including eight extra-base hits … led Athletes Unlimited with 16 runs scored, including four home runs … also shared league lead with 10 walks … tied for fifth with four doubles … one of five players with 30 or more total bases.
2020 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,680 points during inaugural season to earn ninth place on the leaderboard … ranked second in Athletes Unlimited with 590 stat points while her 180 MVP points were tied for sixth-highest among all players … bat ted .432 with a 1.091 slugging percentage after starting all 15 games … shared leaguehigh honors with Erika Piancastelli after belting nine home runs … also owned league’s top spot with 19 runs batted in and 48 total bases … tied for second in the league with 16 runs scored … fifth in the circuit with 19 hits … hit by a pitch five times, which tied Nerissa Myers for most in the league.
Three-time WBSC World Championship participant … competed with Puerto Rico Na tional Team from 2014-16 … claimed Bronze medal with Puerto Rico National Team at 2015 Pan American Games … earned Gold medal with Team USA in 2018 after hitting .308 with two home runs and six runs batted in … helped lead Team USA to Gold medal at 2019 Japan Cup and 2019 Pan American Games … hit .333 with four RBI at USA Soft ball International Cup … guided Team USA to 2022 Canada Cup title after hitting .545 (12-for-22) with four doubles, three home runs and 13 runs batted in.
Earned All-NPF honors in 2017 with the Chicago Bandits after hitting .322 with three home runs and 29 runs batted in over 43 games … spent the 2018 season with USSSA Pride and appeared in 20 games while authoring .291 batting average.
Four-year letter winner for the Tigers from 2014-17 … earned NFCA All-America honors all four years, including First-Team recognition as a senior … also claimed First-Team All-Region and All-Louisiana distinction every year, including three years at designated player position … member of 2015 NCAA Super Regional All-Tournament Team and 2016 NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team … First-Team All-Southeastern Conference performer as a freshman and sophomore … earned Second-Team All-SEC recognition as a catcher during senior season … earned spot on 2014 SEC All-Freshman Team … tabbed 2014 Louisiana Freshman of the Year … LSU’s all-time leader with 268 career runs batted in and 16 sacrifice flies … owns LSU single-season records for runs batted in, walks and sacrifice flies … ranks third in LSU career history with .632 slugging per centage … also authored .457 on-base percentage with 472 total bases and 56 home runs, which stand second on Tigers’ career ledger … fifth in school history with 51 ca reer doubles … set school single-season record with 23 multi-RBI games during 2016 season … also owns career mark with 78 career multi-RBI efforts … hit five career grand slams, including two during the 2015 season.
Daughter of Mary and Bill Jaquish … aspired to be like her sisters and play Division I softball when she was growing up … sister, Carissa Jaquish-Roacha, played softball at Notre Dame … sister, Jenna Jaquish-Wood, played softball at Monmouth.
POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-4 BATS/THROWS: L/L HOMETOWN: Morris, Ala. COLLEGE: Alabama
2022 Championship Season: Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team pick for second season in a row … placed third in the league with 1,650 leaderboard points, including 410 stat points … tied for fourth with 180 MVP points … tallied 1,060 win points while starting every game … one of two players with 20 or more hits, including six dou bles and two home runs … went 3-for-3 with a double, a home run and three runs batted in against Team Eberle on Aug. 6 … collected four hits, including a double, while scoring three runs against Team Chidester on Aug. 13 … finished Week Three with three hits, including a double, against Team Mulipola … hit safely in four games from Aug. 13-20, going 10-for-19 at the plate with five runs scored.
2022 AUX Season: Earned 11th place in the league standings with 1,148 leaderboard points … starter in 11-of-12 games who hit .263 with 10 hits, including one double and one home run … drew league-high 12 walks while driving in six runs … also scored nine runs, good for a share of third place in the circuit … posted three two-hit performances … hit a double and drove in two runs against Team Ocasio in season opener on June 13.
2021 Championship Season: Finished in 12th place on the leaderboard standings with 1,402 points … member of inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team … authored .378 batting average while starting 14 games … third in the league with 14 runs scored and 17 hits … tied for ninth in the circuit with three doubles … one of 13 players to register a sacrifice fly.
2020 Championship Season: Shared fifth place on the league leaderboard with Mor gan Zerkle and Gwen Svekis after compiling 1,710 points … tied with Erika Piancastel li for sixth place with 490 stat points … also tallied 180 points, which tied Sahvanna Jaquish and Haylie Wagner for sixth in the circuit … batted .396 while starting all 15 games … tied for the league lead with 53 at-bats while her 21 hits were good for a share of second place … also scored 16 runs to tie Jaquish for second in the league … blasted six home runs, good for third among all hitters … also drove in 13 runs … one of four players to record 40 or more total bases.
Member of Team USA since 2013 … helped United States win Silver medal at 2020 Tokyo Olympics, earning a spot on the WBSC All-Olympic Team … led team with .529 batting average with a triple and four runs scored … hit safely in five of her six ap pearances, including a three-hit performance against Canada … led Team USA to Gold medal at 2016 and 2018 WBSC Women’s World Championships … posted team-high .520 average with two home runs and 14 runs scored during 2018 event after hitting .400 with seven runs scored and a home run in 2016 … fashioned .370 batting average in guiding Team USA to Silver medal at 2014 WBSC Women’s World Championship … member of Gold medal-winning squad at 2017 and 2019 Pan American Games … com peted in World Cup of Softball from 2014-17, winning two Gold medals and two Silver medals … named Most Valuable Player at The 2022 World Games after leading Team USA to a Gold medal … member of All-World Team who hit .533 with eight hits, includ ing two doubles, and five runs batted in … went 3-for-3 against Australia in semifinal victory with two runs scored.
Four-year letter winner for the Crimson Tide from 2013-16 … one of six players in Ala bama history to earn NFCA All-America honors four times, including three First-Team commendations … started 247-of-248 games during her career … authored .447 career batting average with 27 home runs and 162 runs batted in … also compiled 313 hits, including 57 doubles and 16 triples, while scoring 279 runs … stands as the Crimson Tide’s all-time leader in batting average, on-base percentage and triples … ranks sec ond in school history with .944 career stolen base percentage, swiping 118 bases in 125 attempts … also holds second place on career walks list (199) … one of five players in school history with 300 or more career hits … four-time First-Team NFCA All-Region performer … also received First-Team All-Southeastern Conference distinction three times and was a Second-Team selection as a freshman … three-time CoSIDA Academic All-America pick who was named Academic All-America Team Member of the Year in 2015 and 2016 … winner of 2016 Senior CLASS Award … finalist for 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year award … recipient of 2016 NCAA Top 10 Award … named 2015 SEC Soft ball Scholar-Athlete of the Year … tallied three grand slams during her career … owns Alabama single-game records for runs scored, walks and times hit by a pitch … posted .465 batting average as a freshman, which ranks fourth in Alabama history … set Crim son Tide single-season record with .596 on-base percentage during senior season.
Earned her Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology from Florida Atlantic University … became a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a certi fied strength and conditioning specialist … father, John, played baseball at Samford University.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-5 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: La Porte, Texas COLLEGE: Texas A&M
2022 Championship Season: Third-year performer who placed 10th on the leader board with 1,492 points … ranked sixth in the league with 452 stat points … starter in all 15 games who was tied for fourth with 18 hits, including five doubles and five home runs … tied for second in the league with 16 runs batted in … hit safely in 10 consecutive games from July 31-Aug. 26 with three multi-hit efforts … posted 3-for-4 effort with a double and two runs scored against Team Jaquish on Aug. 6 … also went 3-for-4 with a double and a run batted in against Team Chidester to finish Week Three … drove in four runs with a double and a home run against Team Chidester in Week Five opener … hit a home run in back-to-back games against Team Mulipola and Team McCleney to start Week Four.
2022 AUX Season: Finished inaugural AUX Softball season with 966 leaderboard points to place 18th in the league standings … starter in 11-of-12 games who hit .317 … tallied 13 hits, including four doubles, a triple and a home run … also drove in seven runs and scored six runs … opened season by going 3-for-4 with a run scored against Team Ocasio on June 13 … tallied two hits, including a home run, against Team Fischer on June 19 … also registered back-to-back two-hit performances to end the season.
2021 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,336 leaderboard points to finish 16th in the league standings … tied for 10th in the league with 120 MVP points … member of inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defensive Team … starter in 13 games who posted .375 batting average … registered 15 hits to earn a share of eighth place … also belted three home runs … one of seven players with 10 or more runs batted in … also drew seven walks.
2020 Championship Season: Earned eighth place on inaugural season leaderboard with 1,690 points … also ranked sixth in the league with 1,270 win points … batted .365 with three home runs and 12 runs batted in … tied for fourth among all hitters with 52 at-bats while her 19 hits were tied for fifth … tallied league-leading six doubles … accu mulated 34 total bases, the sixth-highest total in Athletes Unlimited.
Member of Team Mexico who competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics … hit .222 in six games with four hits, including a double, and two runs batted in … posted two hits against Australia with a double and two runs batted in … posted .500 batting average during Americas Olympic Qualifier with nine hits and seven runs batted in … finished second at the 2019 Pan American Games with .471 batting average.
Played for NPF’s Cleveland Comets in 2019.
Four-year letter winner for the Aggies who started all 240 games from 2015-18 … fash ioned .355 career batting average with 65 home runs and 219 runs batted in … also closed career with 246 hits, including 37 doubles and a triple, while scoring 198 runs … one of three Texas A&M softball players to play on an Olympics team … two-time NFCA All-America selection, earning Second-Team notice in 2018 and Third-Team honors in 2016 … four-time NFCA All-Region performer … earned All-Southeastern Conference First Team and All-Defensive Team accolades in 2016 and 2018 … member of 2015 SEC All-Freshman Team and All-SEC Second Team … Texas A&M’s all-time leader with 198 runs scored, 480 total bases and 219 runs batted in … also stands third in program history with 246 hits and 164 walks … ranks second on Aggies’ all-time ledger with 65 home runs … registered 1,200 putouts, good for sixth on school’s career list … led Texas A&M in runs scored and slugging percentage three times … also paced Aggies in total bases all four years … hit the first home run in Davis Diamond history on Apr. 29, 2018, against Auburn.
Member of Athletes Unlimited Softball Player Executive Committee … decided to at tend Texas A&M when she was 14 years old … has worked as a softball analyst for the SEC Network … enjoys being involved in the game of softball both as a player and with broadcasts … hobbies include reading and makeup.
POSITION: Pitcher HEIGHT: 5-8 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: West Grove, Pa. COLLEGE: San Diego State
2022 Championship Season: Finished 28th on the leaderboard with 1,160 points, in cluding 1,020 win points … made seven appearances in the circle with one start … com piled 2-1 record while throwing 16.2 innings with 14 strikeouts … registered season-high 4.1 innings against Team McCleney on Aug. 13 with four strikeouts … also tallied three strikeouts in season debut against Team Mulipola on Aug. 5 … struck out three hitters in 3.0 innings against Team McCleney on Aug. 20.
2022 AUX Season: Compiled 860 leaderboard points to finish 22nd in the league standings during professional debut … made two appearances in the circle … allowed just two hits over 1.2 innings while conceding four unearned runs … also registered two strikeouts … made professional debut against Team Chidester on June 15, striking out two hitters in 1.0 inning of relief … also threw 0.2 innings against Team Zerkle on June 24 … one of 13 players selected in the Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Played three seasons with the Aztecs after transferring from Oregon … made 143 total appearances with 86 starts … fashioned 1.99 career earned run average with 718 strike outs over 619.0 innings … finished with 71-23 record with 13 saves and 18 shutouts … tallied 44 complete games, including 31 at San Diego State … ranked ninth on Aztec’s career list with 43 victories … stands third in SDSU history with .694 career winning percentage … holds sixth place on Aztecs’ career list with 13 solo shutouts and 504 strikeouts … one of four pitchers in San Diego State history to register 10 or more career saves … Mountain West Pitcher of the Year who authored 2.12 earned run average in 41 appearances as a senior … also earned First-Team NFCA All-Region distinction … matched San Diego State single-season record with six saves in addition to posting an 18-6 record … tallied 266 strikeouts during 2022 season, the third-highest total in school history … held opponent batters to .191 average … First-Team All-Mountain West selection in 2021 after posting 17-8 record with a 2.18 earned run average and seven shutouts over 166.2 innings … also earned spot on NFCA All-Region Third Team … compiled 28-4 record in two seasons at Oregon with 1.51 earned run average over 185.2 innings … posted 21-3 mark as a freshman to earn First-Team All-Pac 12 and NFCA All-Region honors … also ended season as a Top 3 Finalist for the National Freshman of the Year award … went 7-1 with a 2.11 earned run average in 18 appearances during COVID-shortended sophomore season … played alongside current Athletes Unlimit ed catcher Gwen Svekis and outfielders DJ Sanders and Shannon Rhodes during her freshman year with the Ducks.
Majored in interdisciplinary studies at San Diego State … working on her Master’s de gree in education counseling … mother, Jennifer, was a pitcher at St. John’s … born in Newark, Del.
POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-5 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Murrieta, Calif. COLLEGE: Michigan
2022 Championship Season: Tallied 848 leaderboard points during first Athletes Un limited Softball Championship Season … starter in all 15 games who hit .238 with one home run and three runs batted in … posted season-high three hits in Week Five finale against Team Chidester, including a solo home run … also hit a pair of doubles in Week Three opener against Team Jaquish.
2022 AUX Season: Compiled 1,134 points to finish in 12th place on the leaderboard … started 11-of-12 games while hitting .409 with 18 hits, including two doubles and one home runs … ranked second in the league with 10 runs scored … hit first home run in AUX Softball history with solo homer against Team Ocasio in third inning on June 13 … tied for fourth in the league with five multi-hit games, including a pair of three-hit per formances … second in the league with four multi-RBI contests … posted at least one hit in first 11 games, including a pair of three-hit efforts … went 3-for-3 in season opener against Team Chidester with a home run and two runs batted in … also had 3-for-3 showing against Team Fischer on June 18 with two runs batted in.
Competed for Team USA at the ISF Junior Women’s World Championship in 2013, start ing eight games at shortstop with a .500 batting average and 10 runs batted in.
No. 2 overall selection by the USSSA Pride in 2016 NPF Draft … appeared in 105 games over three-year career … tallied 19 home runs and 78 runs batted in over 105 games … finished with a .346 career batting average … earned All-NPF honors in 2017 after batting .302 with seven home runs with 33 runs batted in … also posted seven homers with 25 runs batted in during 2018 campaign.
Four-year letter winner for the Wolverines who started 252-of-253 games from 2013-16 … authored .441 career batting average with 82 home runs and 305 runs batted in … tallied 302 hits, including 44 doubles and six triples, with 302 runs scored … honored as 2016 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year … also received Honda Sport Award for Softball as senior in addition to being named NFCA Division I Player of the Year … first player in Michigan history to earn All-America honors four times, including three FirstTeam awards (2014, 2015, 2016) … three-time selection as Big Ten Conference Player of the Year … first player in NCAA history to register 300 career runs, 300 career hits and 300 career runs batted in … also holds NCAA records in career runs scored (302) and grand slams (11) … named 2013 Big Ten Freshman of the Year after establishing Michigan record with 23 home runs … belted school-record four grand slams as a soph omore in addition to setting single-season marks for batting average (.491) and runs (74) … set UM single-season records as a junior with 85 runs scored and 83 runs batted in.
Majored in general studies at Michigan … sister, Sydney, won two NCAA titles as a player at Oklahoma before claiming two more championships as a graduate assistant with the Sooners … younger brother, Michael, will be a freshman on the LSU baseball team during the 2023 season.
POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-5 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Tucson, Ariz. COLLEGE: Wisconsin
ATHLETE CAUSE: The Pink Fund
2022 Championship Season: Member of 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defen sive Team who enjoyed the best finish of her three-year AU career … accumulated 1,260 leaderboard points to claim 23rd place in the league standings … also tallied 330 stat points and 120 MVP points … starter in all 15 games who hit .333 with 15 hits, includ ing five doubles, a triple and a home run … collected three consecutive multi-hit games during Week Three while driving in six runs … also hit three doubles and a home run during Week Three … scored a run in six consecutive games from Aug. 7-20 … served as a captain during Week Two.
2021 Championship Season: Compiled 808 leaderboard points … starter in 14-of-15 games … went 9-for-45 at the plate with a home run and three runs batted in … tallied six walks … went 1-for-1 in stolen base attempts.
2020 Championship Season: Accumulated 880 leaderboard points during inaugural season … starter in 12-of-14 games … batted .265 with one home run and six runs batted in … also scored four runs and tallied two doubles … hit by a pitch twice … one of 11 players with a sacrifice fly.
Led Team Canada to Bronze medal at 2020 Tokyo Olympics … hit .222 (4-for-18) with three runs scored and two runs batted in … helped Canada earn Bronze medal at 2018 WBSC Women’s Softball World Championship in Chiba, Japan … authored .533 batting average with five doubles and 10 runs scored at 2019 WBSC Americas Qualifier … joined the Canadian Junior National Team in 2015 and competed at the WBSC World Championship in Oklahoma City … member of Team Canada squad for the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. … authored .385 batting average with five hits, including two doubles, and four runs scored.
Played for the NPF’s Canadian Wild in 2019, batting .290 with two home runs and eight runs batted in.
Four-year letter winner for the Badgers who started all 208 games during her career from 2015-18 … fashioned .369 career batting average with 22 home runs and 127 runs batted in … also accrued 218 hits, including 40 doubles and two triples, while scoring school-record 180 runs … drew Wisconsin-record 181 walks during her career while being hit by a pitch 18 times … first player in Wisconsin softball history to earn First-Team All-Big Ten Conference honors three times … also became first freshman in program history to earn spot on All-Big Ten First Team in 2015 … two-time NFCA All-Region Second Team selection … three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree … unanimous FirstTeam All-Big Ten recipient as a senior after leading team with 43 runs, 59 hits and 45 walks … set school record by reaching base safely in 40 consecutive games during senior season … also established Wisconsin single-season records with .569 on-base percentage … owns Badgers’ single-season record after compiling 42 walks in 2015 … stole 18 bases as a freshman to set school rookie mark.
Mother, Shannah, played softball collegiately at Wichita State and was a member of the Canadian National Team … aunt, Jodie Biggan Porteous, was a member of the Canadian National Softball and Soccer Teams … aunt, Alison Biggan McLeod, played soccer at the University of British Columbia and the Canadian National Junior Softball Team … lists mini steak tacos as her favorite pregame meal … favorite softball memory is qualifying for the Olympics … favorite TV show is One Tree Hill … holds a bachelor’s degree from Wisconsin in human development and family studies.
2022 Championship Season: Finished in 15th place on the leaderboard with 1,424 points during her third Athletes Unlimited campaign … tied for eighth in the circuit with 1,060 win points … starter in all 15 games who authored .282 batting average with 11 hits, including three home runs and 10 runs batted in … hit second grand slam of AU career on Aug. 7 against Team Harshman as part of 3-for-4 effort with five runs batted in … hit safely in four consecutive games from Aug. 14-21.
2021 Championship Season: Earned 23rd place on the leaderboard with 1,278 points … scored nine runs … starter in all 15 games … batted .256 with 11 hits, including five extra-base hits … tied for the league lead with 10 walks … drove in 10 runs, which were tied for sixth in the circuit … owned share of seventh place among league leaders with three home runs … hit by a pitch twice.
2020 Championship Season: Ranked fourth on the leaderboard with 1,840 points … tied for sixth with 490 stat points while her 220 MVP points tied Jessica Warren for third place in the league … starter in 14-of-15 games who batted .327 … tallied 17 hits, including 11 for extra bases … owned share of league lead with nine home runs … drove in 15 runs, good for a share of third place in Athletes Unlimited … tied for fourth in the league with 52 at-bats … sixth in the circuit with 14 runs scored … accumulated 46 total bases to finish second among all players.
Member of the Italian National Team since 2015 … competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olym pics and went 2-for-15 in five games with both hits coming against Team Canada … helped Team Italy qualify for Tokyo Olympics by going 5-for-17 with one home run and two runs batted in at WBSC Europe/Africa Olympic Qualifier … batted .545 with 12 hits and 15 runs scored during 2021 European Softball Championship.
Played for SGH Galaxy Stars in the Japan Diamond League during the 2022 season … also participated in Major League Baseball’s FTX Home Run Derby event in Lon don, England on July 9, 2022, earning MVP honors after slugging 15 home runs in two rounds.
Four-year letter winner for the Cowgirls who started 234-of-235 games from 2015-18 … finished her career with combined 19 school and Southland Conference records … compiled .401 batting average during record-setting career … owns McNeese career records for hits (253), home runs (75), runs batted in (212), runs scored (228), walks (229), doubles (62) and total bases (548) … also stands as Southland Conference’s career leader in home runs, runs batted in, walks, runs scored and total bases while holding share of career doubles mark … first player in program history to earn NFCA All-America honors, claiming pair of honors in 2015 and 2016 … four-time NFCA All-Re gion and All-Southland Conference honoree … named Southland Conference Hitter and Player of the Year four times … one of three student-athletes in school history to win multiple conference Player of the Year honors in any sport … named 2015 South land Conference Freshman of the Year … also garnered All-Louisiana distinction all four years … three-time pick as Southland Conference Softball Student-Athlete of the Year … selected as 2018 Louisiana Hitter of the Year … four-time recipient of McNeese State Female Athlete of the Year award … set McNeese single-season home runs record three times during her career … three-time CoSIDA Academic All-District recipient.
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POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-7 BATS/THROWS: L/L HOMETOWN: Houston, Texas COLLEGE: Oklahoma
ATHLETE CAUSE: Laureus USA
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,200 points to finish in 27th place on the leaderboard … tied for league lead in win points with DJ Sanders … joined Sanders and middle infielder Aubrey Leach as the only players in the league to win 11 games during the 2022 campaign … scored a run against Team Chidester on July 30 and Aug. 14.
2022 AUX Season: Compiled 806 leaderboard points in Athletes Unlimited debut … starter in 9-of-11 games who tallied three hits and five runs scored … also drew three walks … went 3-for-4 with a double and a run scored against Team Eberle on June 14.
Member of Team Mexico at 2020 Tokyo Olympics … hit .190 with four hits and a run scored in six games … also represented Team Mexico at 2019 USA Softball Interna tional Cup.
Five-year letter winner at Oklahoma who started 209-of-241 games from 2017-21 … closed career with .360 batting average, 25 home runs and 121 runs batted in … also made 27 appearances in the circle, furnishing a 2.47 earned run average with 29 strike outs in 34.0 innings … three-time selection to Women’s College World Series All-Tour nament Team … three-time NFCA All-Region performer, including First-Team distinction in 2017 … member of 2017 Big 12 Conference Championship All-Tournament Team … named 2017 Big 12 Freshman of the Year in addition to claiming spot on All-Big 12 First Team … holds Oklahoma record by playing in 23 career games at the Women’s College World Series … finished her career ranked second in program history with 16 triples … also stands 10th on Oklahoma’s all-time list with 46 career stolen bases … set OU postseason single-game record with seven runs batted in against Morgan State in 2021 Norman Regional … also holds share of school single-game record with five runs scored against New Mexico on Feb. 27, 2021 … scored three runs against UCLA on June 5, 2021, to establish Oklahoma single-game record at the Women’s College World Series … teamed up with Paige Lowary to throw a no-hitter against Oklahoma State on May 6, 2017.
Earned her bachelor’s degree in social influence from Oklahoma … also received her Master’s degree in human relations from Oklahoma in May 2022.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-9 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Columbus, Miss. COLLEGE: Oregon
ATHLETE CAUSE: Boys and Girls Club of the Golden Triangle
2022 Championship Season: Finished in 13th place on the league leaderboard with 1,434 points … tied with outfielder Nicole Rangel-Mendes for the league lead with 1,200 win points … one of three players who won 11 games during 2022 campaign … started 10-of-15 games and registered .282 batting average with two home runs and seven runs batted in … posted four multi-hit games, including three hits against Team Mc Cleney on Aug. 21 … went 2-for-4 with a home run and two runs scored against Team McCleney on Aug. 12 … also registered season-high 180 leaderboard points.
2022 AUX Season: Registered 808 points to finish in a tie for 27th place on the lead erboard … appeared in seven games before missing the final series … tallied five hits in 10 at-bats, including a double … recorded three runs batted in along with scoring a run … went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored against Team Mulipola on June 19.
2021 Championship Season: Earned 15th place on the leaderboard with 1,352 points … tied for fourth in the league with 1,140 leaderboard points … tallied two hits in 26 atbats, but both hits were home runs … also drove in five runs.
2020 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,520 points to finish in 14th place on the leaderboard … tied for ninth with 120 MVP points … hit .333 while starting 14 games … second in the league behind Tori Vidales with five doubles … tied for eighth in the circuit with four home runs … drove in 14 runs, good for fifth place among all hitters … tallied 33 total bases.
Played two seasons in NPF after being picked with the No. 21 overall selection in the 2018 NPF Draft by the Chicago Bandits … hit .306 as a rookie with seven home runs and 15 runs batted in.
Spent her senior season with the Ducks after transferring from Louisiana … earned Second-Team All-Pac-12 Conference honors after batting .281 while starting 62-of-63 games … tallied 16 home runs with 51 runs batted in during her lone season at Ore gon … named Third-Team All-Region during her senior campaign … belted 51 home runs with 167 runs batted in during three seasons with Louisiana … First-Team NFCA All-America performer who led NCAA with 29 home runs, 82 runs batted in and a 1.013 slugging percentage during junior campaign at Louisiana … honored as 2017 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year in addition to being one of 10 finalists for the USA Soft ball Collegiate Player of the Year … also earned First-Team All-Sun Belt recognition as a freshman and sophomore.
Joined softball coaching staff at University of Memphis as an assistant coach on Sept. 16, 2022, after spending 2022 campaign as a volunteer assistant at Mississippi State … motivated to work hard every day because she never wants to underachieve the expectations she has for herself … proudest moment was becoming a professional softball player … lists the Twilight series as her favorite movie and book.
POSITION: Pitcher HEIGHT: 6-1 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Alvin, Texas COLLEGE: Arizona
2022 Championship Season: Earned 1,720 leaderboard points to finish second in the league standings … ranked fifth in the league with 1,140 win points while adding 400 stat points … tied for fourth in Athletes Unlimited with 180 MVP points … led league in wins (6) and earned run average (1.94) while making 11 appearances … tallied 27 strikeouts in 43.1 innings … pitched back-to-back complete games against Team Mulip ola (Aug. 19) and Team Jaquish (Aug. 21) … combined to allow just two runs on six hits with eight strikeouts in those two outings … posted pair of five-strikeout performances against Team Jaquish on Aug. 14 and Aug. 21 … notched season-high 264 leaderboard points in Week Four finale against Team Jaquish after recording shutout performance.
2022 AUX Season: Accumulated 638 leaderboard points during inaugural AUX Soft ball campaign … made nine appearances in the circle, including league-high five starts … posted 16 strikeouts against just four walks in 24.2 innings … threw season-high 4.1 innings against Team Fischer on June 20 … also posted 4.0 innings in season finale against Team Zerkle with three strikeouts … also had three strikeouts against Team Zerkle on June 24.
2021 Championship Season: Tied for 18th place on the leaderboard with 1,320 points while making professional debut … tied for fifth in the league with 140 MVP points … tied for fifth in the league with five games started during eight appearances … posted 2-1 record with 3.71 earned run average in 28.0 innings … tied for sixth in the circuit with 17 strikeouts … one of 12 players selected in Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Four-year letter winner for the Wildcats after playing freshman season at Louisiana … posted 52-18 record in 93 appearances at Arizona … authored 1.92 career earned run average with 367 strikeouts in 438.0 innings pitched … ranks ninth on Arizona’s career earned run average list … Third-Team NFCA All-America performer as a fifth-year se nior after garnering 19-8 record with a 1.95 earned run average and seven shutouts … ranked eighth in the Pac-12 with 107 strikeouts during 2021 season … boasted 9-1 re cord in COVID-shortened 2020 campaign with 1.92 earned run average and 76 strike outs … two-time Third-Team All-Pac-12 performer in 2018 and 2019 who pitched three career no-hitters … finalist for 2017 NFCA Division I Freshman of the Year at Louisiana after registering 15-2 record with 2.27 earned run average in 28 appearances, includ ing 20 starts … named Sun Belt Conference and Louisiana Sports Writers Association Freshman of the Year in 2017.
Currently works as an assistant coach at McNeese State … graduated from Arizona in 2021 with a degree in Literacy, Learning, and Leadership with an emphasis on Commu nity Education … has three older sisters - Stephenie, Jessica and Tiffany - who all played softball at McNeese … plans to teach Special Education and believes her calling is to become a teacher and coach.
POSITION: Catcher HEIGHT: 5-7 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Live Oak, Fla. COLLEGE: Florida
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 690 leaderboard points during third Ath letes Unlimited campaign … appeared in 14 games with seven starts … tallied two hits with one run batted in … went 2-for-3 in Week One finale against Team Ocasio … drove in a run against Team Jaquish on Aug. 13.
2022 AUX Season: Posted 1,072 leaderboard points to claim a share of 14th place in the league standings … starter in 10-of-11 games with .214 batting average … tallied six hits and drove in seven runs … also drew four walks … authored at least one hit in three straight games to begin the season … recorded two hits and drove in two runs against Team Eberle on June 13.
2021 Championship Season: Finished her second Athletes Unlimited season with 1,304 leaderboard points … hit .320 with two home runs and eight runs batted in while starting 10-of-13 games … tied for sixth in the league with six walks … one of 13 players to register a sacrifice fly.
2020 Championship Season: Earned 12th place on the inaugural leaderboard with 1,580 points … fifth in the league with 1,280 win points … appeared in 11 games with two starts … batted .538 with seven hits in 13 at-bats … one of 11 players to register a sacrifice fly.
Four-year letter winner for the Gators who started 171-of-205 games from 2017-20 … posted .257 batting average with 27 home runs and 125 runs batted in … finished ca reer with 118 hits, including 16 doubles, while scoring 54 runs … Florida’s career leader with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage, recording no errors in 676 chances.
Was a weightlifter before playing college softball … also played volleyball and compet ed on cross country and swimming teams in high school … qualified for the state meet in weightlifting during her freshman and sophomore years … started her own coffee business, Daily Cup of Jo Coffee Company, in 2021.
POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-4 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Humble, Texas COLLEGE: Texas
2022 Championship Season: Earned 33rd place on the leaderboard with 1,108 points, including 1,000 win points … started 10 games and posted .233 batting average with seven hits and four runs batted in … tallied at least one hit in six games, including two hits against Team Jaquish in Week Three … posted four-game hitting streak from Aug. 7-14 … one of 13 athletes selected in 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Competed for Team USA at The 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. … helped Team USA win Gold medal by hitting .333 in five games with three hits and three runs batted in.
Five-year letter winner for the Longhorns who started program-record 269 career games from 2018-22 … led Longhorns to NCAA Women’s College World Series berth as a fifth-year senior … finished career with a school-record .424 batting average … also tallied 12 home runs with 114 runs batted in … set Texas and Big 12 Conference record with 362 career hits, which are tied for seventh in NCAA Division I history … registered 55 doubles with six triples while scoring 222 career runs … only player in school history with 300 hits, 200 runs scored, 100 runs batted in and 50 doubles during a career … four-time NFCA All-America performer who earned Second Team commen dations in 2018, 2019 and 2022 … also received All-America recognition from Softball America four times … garnered NFCA All-Region notice four straight years … member of All-Big 12 First Team four times … accumulated school-record 92 hits as a fifth-year senior, good for second in NCAA Division I … also ranked third in the nation with 24 doubles during 2022 campaign … owns Texas single-season record after compiling 24 doubles in 2022 … earned Third-Team All-America status from NFCA and Softball America during 2021 season after leading Longhorns in batting average (.446), hits (75), on-base percentage (.495) and stolen bases (14) … secured Second-Team NFCA All-America recognition in 2019 after pacing Longhorns with .408 batting average and 80 hits … also named to Softball America All-America First Team as a sophomore … became fourth Texas freshman to earn NFCA All-America honors after being named to the Second Team in 2018 … also one of 10 finalists for NFCA National Freshman of the Year award.
Lists going 11-for-11 at the 2016 Junior Olympic Cup as her most memorable moment in sports … cousin, Michael Jackson, was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 19862004 who won 62 career games and registered 142 saves … born in Houston, Texas.
POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-6 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Liberty Township, Ohio COLLEGE: Northwestern
2022 Championship Season: Collected 984 leaderboard points, including 940 win points, during first Athletes Unlimited campaign … started four games … tallied two hits in six at-bats … went 2-for-3 with a run scored against Team Jaquish during Week Two … collected 100 or more leaderboard points in a game six times, including a trio of 120-point efforts over final six outings … one of 13 players selected in Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Five-year letter winner for the Wildcats who started all 245 career games from 2018-22 … posted .313 career batting average with school-record 65 home runs … also stands third on Wildcats’ career list with 46 doubles and 195 runs batted in … tallied 220 hits during career while scoring 230 runs, the second-highest total in program history … also stole 104 bases, including Big Ten Conference-leading 30 stolen bases during 2021 campaign … one of five players in school history with 100 or more career stolen bases … tied Northwestern single-season record with 23 home runs while adding 62 runs batted in as a fifth-year senior in 2022 … earned First-Team NFCA All-America honors in 2022 along with being named Big Ten Player of the Year … also received Second-Team NFCA All-America recognition as a freshman in 2018 along with being a Top 10 finalist for NFCA National Freshman of the Year award … four-time All-Big Ten selection, including three First Team commendations … led Big Ten in home runs, slug ging percentage, runs batted in, runs scored, walks and OPS during 2022 campaign while leading Wildcats to Women’s College World Series … member of 2021 Big Ten All-Defensive Team … starter in all 23 games during COVID-shortened 2020 campaign who hit .268 and finished second in the Big Ten with 22 runs scored … claimed Sec ond-Team All-Big Ten recognition in 2019 after leading team with 14 home runs, 43 runs scored, 15 stolen bases and a .544 slugging percentage … also drew 51 walks in 2019 campaign, the second-highest total in program history … tied school record by being hit by a pitch 17 times during freshman season.
PERSONAL Mother, Lisa, played softball at Northwood University.
POSITION: Pitcher HEIGHT: 6-0 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Charlotte, N.C. COLLEGE: Oklahoma State
2022 Championship Season: Second-year performer who finished in 26th place in the league standings with 1,204 leaderboard points … ranked eighth in the league with 160 win points … made 11 appearances in the circle with three starts … tallied 18 strikeouts to rank eighth in Athletes Unlimited … threw 32.0 innings, including season-high 6.0 frames in Week Two opener … struck out season-high five batters in Week One finale against Team Zerkle while allowing one hit in 3.1 innings of relief.
2022 AUX Season: Accumulated 742 leaderboard points to earn 30th place in the league standings … appeared in eight games with four starts … authored 6.00 earned run average with 2-3 record … accrued 13 strikeouts over 25.2 innings … closed Series One with season-high 5.2 innings against Team Chidester on June 15 … also threw 5.0 innings with three strikeouts against Team Ocasio in season opener on June 13 … earned victory in relief against Team Gibson on June 19, throwing 3.2 innings and allowing just two hits.
2021 Championship Season: Inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball Rookie of the Year who finished fourth on the leaderboard with 1,592 points … also ranked second in the league with 200 MVP points while her 382 stat points were good for sixth … tied with Aleshia Ocasio for league lead with 13 games pitched and 10 games started … one of four players to register a save … also fashioned 3-2 record with two complete games in 51.0 innings … ranked fifth in AU with 3.16 earned run average … notched 17 strikeouts, which shared sixth place in the league … one of 12 players selected in Athletes Unlim ited Softball College Draft.
Played three seasons at Virginia Tech before transferring to Oklahoma State for final two years … made 154 career appearances with 122 starts … authored 1.88 career earned run average with 598 strikeouts in 808.1 innings pitched … also tallied 84 career complete games with 27 shutouts and five saves … fashioned 36-5 record in two years at Oklahoma State with 224 strikeouts and a 1.13 earned run average over 266.1 innings … stands second in OSU history with .878 career winning percentage … ranks third on Cowgirls’ single-season list with 26 victories during 2021 campaign … Second-Team NFCA All-America performer as a fifth-year senior, accumulating a 26-4 record with a 1.40 earned run average and 156 strikeouts … honored as 2021 Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Year after leading Cowgirls to Women’s College World Series … received spot on CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team as a fifth-year senior … also received Second-Team All-America distinction from Softball America during COVID-shortened 2020 season after fashioning 0.46 earned run average in 76.0 innings … teamed up with Kelly Maxwell to throw the first combined perfect game in OSU history on Mar. 24, 2021, against North Texas … also threw two solo no-hitters with the Cowgirls … finalist for 2021 USA Softball Player of the Year … stands fifth in Virginia Tech history with 2.27 career earned run average … struck out 366 hitters in three seasons with the Hokies while pitching 534.0 innings … amassed a 45-35 record at Virginia Tech with 15 shutouts in 106 appearances … two-time NFCA All-Region and All-Atlantic Coast Con ference honoree at VT, including First-Team notice in 2019 … named 2019 ACC Pitcher and Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Graduated from Virginia Tech in 2019 before transferring to Oklahoma State … mother and father both attended Virginia Tech … has one brother … completed her Master’s degree in Forensic Sciences last summer … named as an assistant softball coach at Lipscomb on Aug. 30, 2022, after spending 2022 campaign as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma State.
POSITION: Catcher HEIGHT: 6-6 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Hillsborough, N.C. COLLEGE: Mississippi State
ATHLETE CAUSE: Geaux Teal Ovarian Cancer Awareness Center
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,280 leaderboard points to claim 21st place in the league standings … secured 370 stat points after registering 10 hits, includ ing three doubles and four home runs … also drove in 11 runs while starting all 15 games … hit a home run in back-to-back games to finish Week Two … drove in four runs while going 3-for-4 with two runs scored against Team Chidester on Aug. 20 … also fashioned two RBI with a home run in season finale against Team Chidester on Aug. 28 … one of 13 players selected in Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Two-time participant in International Canada Cup with TC Colorado.
Five-year letter winner for the Bulldogs who started all 270 games of her career from 2018-22 … authored .352 batting average with 92 home runs and 220 runs batted in … finished with 277 hits, including 47 doubles and five triples … also scored school-record 219 runs, including 50 or more runs during freshman and sophomore campaigns … Southeastern Conference and Mississippi State’s career home runs leader … also com pleted career tied for third on NCAA’s career home runs list … honored as 2022 NFCA/ Diamond Sports Catcher of the Year … two-time NFCA All-America pick who earned spot on First Team during 2022 season … also earned First-Team All-America distinc tion from D1Softball.com and Softball America in final collegiate season … garnered NFCA All-Region honors four times … three-time First-Team All-SEC performer … Sec ond-Team CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree as a graduate student … two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District pick … tabbed 2018 SEC Freshman of the Year in addition to being a Top 10 finalist for NFCA National Freshman of the Year award … finished her career as Mississippi State’s career leader in games played and started, slugging percentage (.775), home runs, runs scored, runs batted in (220), total bases (610), times hit by a pitch (57), runners picked off (13), defensive chances (1,759), putouts (1,555) and runners thrown out (57) … posted 69 multi-hit games during her career, good for fourth on Bulldogs’ career list … owns school record with 56 multi-RBI efforts … played at ev ery infield position during her career, including catcher, first base, second base, short stop and third base … also played as the Bulldogs’ designated player during her career.
Both parents served in the U.S. Army … sister, Montana, plays softball at Mississippi State … married Sean Smith on Dec. 13, 2021 … hobbies include performing bat tricks and collecting baseball cards … pursuing her master’s degree in sports administration at Mississippi State after graduating with bachelor’s degree in kinesiology in May 2021 … joined Mississippi State softball coaching staff as a graduate assistant on Sept. 12, 2022.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-10 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Norton, Ohio COLLEGE: Ohio State
ATHLETE CAUSE: American Lung Association
2022 Championship Season: Member of 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defen sive Team and finalist for GEICO Defensive Player of the Year award … collected 986 leaderboard points during third AU campaign, including 830 win points … started 13of-15 games and hit .179 with seven hits, including a double … also drove in three runs and scored twice … went 3-for-3 with two RBI and a double against Team Jaquish on Aug. 13.
2022 AUX Season: Shared 27th place in the league standings after registering 808 points … starter in 11-of-12 games who batted .275 with 11 hits, including two doubles and a home run … also drove in seven runs while scoring four times … posted six-game hitting streak from June 15-23, going 7-for-20 with three runs scored, a home run and a double … closed season with two-hit performance against Team Fischer in 10-inning contest on June 25 … earned No. 6 spot on SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays with diving catch in foul territory against Team Fischer on June 25.
2021 Championship Season: Finished in 13th place with 1,364 leaderboard points … eighth in the league with 1,100 win points … one of 13 players to record a sacrifice fly.
2020 Championship Season: Collected 1,300 leaderboard points during inaugural season to finish in 22nd place … hit .414 while starting 5-of-13 games … tallied two home runs with six runs batted in … tied for fifth in the league with three doubles.
Selected by the Cleveland Comets in the 2019 NPF Draft with the No. 15 overall se lection.
Transferred to Ohio State after playing softball and basketball as a freshman at Akron … one of two players in Ohio State softball history to earn NFCA All-America honors three times … claimed pair of Second-Team honors after receiving Third-Team All-America recognition in 2017 … three-time unanimous First-Team All-Big Ten Conference per former … finalist for 2019 Big Ten Medal of Honor … only Buckeye to finish each season of their career with a .400 batting average … one of only two players in Ohio State history with 50+ runs and 50+ runs batted in during the same season … ranks second in OSU history with .419 career batting average … ranks among Ohio State’s career lead ers with 48 home runs, 153 runs scored, 144 runs batted in, 40 stolen bases and 211 hits … ranked eighth in NCAA Division I during 2018 season with school-record 20 home runs … also finished 11th in the nation with 18 homers in first season with the Buckeyes … boasted .876 slugging percentage during 2018 campaign, the third-highest single-sea son mark in Big Ten Conference history … hit .313 as a freshman with the Zips, posting 15 hits in 20 games … also scored 10 runs with a home run and six runs batted in.
Currently serves as a volunteer assistant coach at Michigan State … aunt, Kay, was a two-sport athlete at Akron who played softball and volleyball from 1982-85.
POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-8 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Merced, Calif. COLLEGE: UCLA
ATHLETE CAUSE: Athletes in Action
2022 Championship Season: Member of 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball All-Defen sive Team who finished in 30th place on the leaderboard with 1,144 points … tallied 334 stat points with 140 MVP points … started all 15 games and posted .333 batting average with four home runs and 14 runs batted in … registered season-high 220 lea derboard points against Team Zerkle in Week One … opened season with five-game hitting streak, including three hits against Team Harshman on Aug. 6 … also recorded three straight two-hit performances to begin season … hit a home run in three straight outings from July 30-Aug. 5 … finished season by going 2-for-3 with a home run against Team Mulipola.
2021 Championship Season: Tallied 808 leaderboard points in Athletes Unlimited de but … started eight games … went 5-for-26 (.192) at the plate with a double and a home run … also drove in five runs … one of 13 players to register a sacrifice fly.
Led Team USA to a Silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics … went 1-for-2 in two games … also won Gold medals at the 2015 and 2017 WBSC Junior Women’s World Championships … posted .500 batting average with a home run and three runs batted in at the 2016 World Cup of Softball … spent summer of 2015 with United States Junior National Team in addition to summer of 2016 with the USA Elite Team … also competed with Team USA during Japan All-Star Series in 2018 … participated for Team USA at The 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala.
Played for the Toyota Red Terriers of the Japan Diamond League in 2022.
Four-year letter winner for the Bruins who started 215-of-217 games from 2017-21 … redshirted 2020 season to compete with Team USA at the “Stand Beside Her” Tour … accrued .357 batting average during her career with 42 home runs and 181 runs batted in … finished career with 235 hits, including 42 doubles and four triples, while scoring 154 runs … Second-Team NFCA All-America honoree in 2019 … three-time All-Pac-12 Conference pick, including First-Team honors in 2018 and 2019 … member of 2017 Pac12 All-Freshman Team … garnered First-Team NFCA All-Region commendations in 2018 and 2019 … named Senior CLASS Award First-Team All-American in 2021 after hitting .312 with four home runs and 22 runs batted in … also posted six doubles with 16 runs scored during senior campaign … two-time member of Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team … tied for ninth in program history with nine career sacrifice flies … scored 66 runs during junior season, which ranks fourth on the Bruins’ single-season list … also drove in 72 runs in 2019, which are tied for fourth in program history … hit safely in 21 consecutive games from Mar. 31-May 18, 2019, good for fourth on Bruins’ all-time list.
Graduated from UCLA in 2021 with a degree in sociology … serving as a graduate as sistant coach with the Bruins while she pursues her Master’s degree.
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 838 leaderboard points during inaugural professional season … made five appearances in the circle with three starts … finished with an 0-2 record and one save in 7.1 innings … conceded one hit over 2.0 innings against Team Zerkle in Week One for first save of professional career … also threw 2.0 innings in Week Five against Team Chidester.
Spent her final two years at Florida State after starting career at Louisville … sat out 2020 campaign due to Atlantic Coast Conference transfer rules … finished career with 55-31 record and 3.05 earned run average … tallied 514 total strikeouts in 518.2 innings … allowed career-low 66 hits in 93.1 innings during redshirt junior season … posted 29-6 mark in two seasons with the Seminoles while starting 34-of-64 appearances … Third-Team All-ACC performer in 2022 who authored 2.34 earned run average over 134.2 innings … earned 17-4 record with one save while holding opponents to .194 bat ting average … also notched 147 strikeouts and allowed just 45 earned runs … won her first seven decisions during 2022 campaign, including pair of wins over national ly-ranked opponents … posted career-high 11 strikeouts in outings against Hofstra (Feb. 25) and Boston College (Mar. 20) during redshirt senior season … garnered 12-2 record as a redshirt junior with 98 strikeouts in 93.1 innings … led Seminoles to 2021 Women’s College World Series berth … paced Louisville pitching staff with 88 strikeouts in 2019 season … made 36 appearances in the circle for the Cardinals as a freshman, including 19 starts … opened career with 14-10 record in 2018 with 3.13 ERA and 105 strikeouts.
Father played baseball at Bristol University and won National Small College World Series in 1994 … favorite softball memory is reaching the championship series of the 2021 NCAA Women’s College World Series after going through the losers bracket … currently working towards her Master’s degree in sports administration at Florida State.
POSITION: Pitcher HEIGHT: 5-10 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Mechanicsville, Va. COLLEGE: Duke
2022 Championship Season: Tallied 1,126 points in first professional season, including 920 win points … made 11 appearances in the circle with three starts … earned 2-2 record with a save over 26.1 innings … ranked sixth in the league with 22 strikeouts, in cluding four in professional debut against Team Eberle … threw season-high 4.2 innings in professional debut against Team Eberle on July 29 with four strikeouts … also posted four strikeouts over 4.0 innings in Aug. 20 start against Team Mulipola … did not allow a run over her final three appearances … one of 13 players selected in 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Five-year letter winner for the Blue Devils who made school-record 152 appearances in the circle from 2018-22 … posted 2.14 career earned run average with 641 strikeouts over 566.0 innings, the most by any Duke pitcher in program history … finished college career with 66-25 record along with program-best 13 saves … also owns Duke career records for games started, innings pitched, wins, saves, strikeouts, shutouts and com plete games … three-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference performer who earned First Team recognition in 2021 and 2022 … Third-Team NFCA All-America selection as a graduate student after leading Blue Devils to first NCAA Super Regional appearance in program history … authored 2.07 earned run average in 155.2 innings during 2022 campaign while setting Duke single-season record with 22 victories … also set Duke single-game record with 15 strikeouts against NC State on Mar. 11, 2022 … led Blue Dev ils to first ACC title as a senior while compiling 18-8 record with 13 complete games and school-record five saves … put together 10-2 record during COVID-shortened 2020 campaign with 66 strikeouts and six complete game efforts … Second-Team All-ACC selection during sophomore campaign after recording eight wins and two saves in 30 appearances … member of 2018 ACC All-Freshman Team, joining Rachel Crabtree as the first Duke players to earn the award … ranked fifth in the ACC as a freshman with 1.79 earned run average … also fashioned perfect 6-0 record against league opponents with 51 strikeouts and 1.40 earned run average.
Father, John, played basketball at Christopher Newport University and worked as a college basketball referee for 12 years … born in Richmond, Va.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-11 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Simi Valley, Calif. COLLEGE: Loyola Marymount
ATHLETE CAUSE: 100 Club of Arizona
2022 Championship Season: Placed seventh on the leaderboard with career-best 1,562 points … ranked third in the league with 1,160 win points … started all 15 games and hit .277 with 13 hits, including two doubles and three home runs … hit two home runs and drove in three runs against Team Mulipola to open Week Three … also had a home run against Team Mulipola in Week Five opener while going 2-for-3 with three runs batted in … authored four multi-hit games, including back-to-back contests against Team Harshman (Aug. 7) and Team Mulipola (Aug. 12).
2022 AUX Season: Finished in eighth place on the leaderboard after earning 1,236 points … batted .375 while starting all 12 games … compiled 15 hits, including three doubles and two home runs, in addition to driving in league-high 11 runs … also drew six walks … tied for second in the league with six multi-hit outings … opened season with four consecutive two-hit games, which included three doubles … fashioned sea son-high three hits against Team Mulipola on June 19 … hit a solo home run against Team Ocasio on June 14 … also had a home run on June 23 against Team O’Toole … only player to serve as a captain more than once during the season.
2021 Championship Season: Accumulated 916 leaderboard points in second Athletes Unlimited season … tallied three hits in 26 at-bats while driving in three runs … started 8-of-13 games.
2020 Championship Season: Tallied 930 points during rookie campaign … batted .302 while starting 14-of-15 games … tallied three home runs with nine runs batted in … tied for league lead with 15 strikeouts … hit the first home run in Athletes Unlimited history with a two-run shot in the sixth inning against Team Warren on Aug. 29, 2020.
Member of Team USA from 2012-15 and Team USA Women’s Elite Team in 2016 … posted .330 batting average for Team USA with eight home runs and 31 runs batted in over four seasons … also led Team USA to Gold medals at 2015 World Cup of Softball and Japan Cup events … member of Gold medal-winning team at 2014 World Cup of Softball, hitting .200 with a run scored … helped Team USA claim Silver medal at ISF World Championship with .348 batting average, two home runs and nine runs batted in.
Played two seasons with the Akron Racers of NPF before signing with Scrap Yard Fast pitch in 2018 … appeared in 81 games with Akron at shortstop and first base … also contributed 19 home runs with 51 runs batted in … played two years in the Japanese Professional League for the Toda Medics.
Four-year letter winner for the Lions who became the first All-America selection in pro gram history … earned spot on NFCA All-America Second Team in senior season … first player in LMU softball history to earn All-PCSC First Team honors four times … two-time PCSC Coastal Division Player of the Year … appeared in 214 career games … closed career as Lions’ all-time leader in home runs (65), runs batted in (172), total bases (495), batting average (.387), slugging percentage (.786), on-base percentage (.494), runs scored (194), doubles (52) and walks (127) … led NCAA Division I with .492 batting average and .665 on-base percentage as a senior inducted into Loyola Marymount Sports Hall of Fame in 2019 … also had her No. 52 jersey retired.
Member of Athletes Unlimited Softball Player Executive Committee … credits her career to her family, including her parents, Rick and Debbie, and her brother, Tom … majored in business at Loyola Marymount … known for posting entertaining tweets about softball and McDonald’s.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-7 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Phoenix, Ariz. COLLEGE: Oklahoma State
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 596 leaderboard points during first Ath letes Unlimited season … starter in 10-of-12 games who collected six hits in 27 at-bats … … also drew two walks … went 2-for-3 with a double and a run batted in against Team Eberle in Week One finale.
Played three seasons at Oklahoma State after starting college career at Virginia … fash ioned .320 career batting average over 241 games … accumulated 42 home runs with 137 runs batted in … started 43-of-54 games as a graduate student and posted .240 batting average with five home runs and 19 runs batted in … registered four multi-hit games, including a trio of three-hit performances … earned NFCA Third-Team All-Amer ica honors as a senior after leading the Cowgirls with 19 home runs and a school-record .794 slugging percentage … also ranked 16th in the country with 131 total bases … led the Cowgirls to NCAA Women’s College World Series appearance in 2021 … starter in 23-of-24 games during first season with Oklahoma State in 2020 after transferring from Virginia … started all 53 games during her sophomore season at Virginia … finished second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 17 doubles … also boasted a .706 slug ging percentage, good for sixth in the ACC … closed 2019 season with 19-game hitting streak … starter in 52 contests as a freshman who ranked third on the team with a .280 batting average … also paced Virginia with 12 doubles and three triples.
Father, Mike, played four seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1996-99 … has one sister.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-8 BATS/THROWS: L/L HOMETOWN: Peachtree City, Ga. COLLEGE: Oklahoma State
2022 Championship Season: First-year performer who appeared in 12 games with seven starts … accumulated 762 leaderboard points, including 690 win points … regis tered three hits in 19 at-bats … collected a hit in 2-of-3 games during Week Two, includ ing a double against Team Harshman … registered first hit as a professional in Week One finale against Team Zerkle on July 31.
Member of Canadian Senior National Team who participated at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. … played in all five games for Team Canada and drove in two runs against Italy.
Spent 2020 and 2021 campaigns with Oklahoma State after playing three seasons at Georgia … appeared in 247 total games with 246 starts … fashioned .354 batting aver age with 50 home runs and 198 runs batted in … accumulated 256 hits over five-year career, including 61 doubles and three triples … owns OSU school record with .826 ca reer slugging percentage … also ranks fourth on Cowgirls’ career list with .395 batting average … hit 25 home runs at Oklahoma State, good for fifth in program history … led Oklahoma State to pair of NCAA Women’s College World Series appearances … NFCA First-Team All-America selection as a graduate student who posted .400 batting aver age with 18 home runs and 60 runs batted in … also garnered Second-Team All-Big 12 Conference recognition … tallied 26 multi-hit games during 2021 season, including two three-hit performances … set Oklahoma State single-season record with 145 total bases … posted .784 slugging percentage, the second-highest mark in Oklahoma State histo ry … batted .332 in three seasons at Georgia with 21 home runs and 106 runs batted in … started 162-of-163 games with the Bulldogs, including every game as a sophomore and junior … two-time NFCA Second-Team All-Region selection at Georgia … accrued .273 batting average while starting 48-of-49 games as a freshman … enjoyed best sea son with the Bulldogs as a sophomore, hitting .389 with nine home runs and 50 runs batted in … also tallied nine home runs during junior campaign in addition to earning .314 batting average with 36 runs batted in … member of 2018 NCAA Women’s College World Series team at Georgia.
PERSONAL Father, Joe, played ice hockey in Canada … sister, Haley, was a competition and varsity cheerleader.
2022 Championship Season: Talented newcomer who finished campaign with 960 leaderboard points, including 190 stat points … ranked fifth in the league with 3.97 earned run average while appearing in 11 games, including five starts … fashioned a 2-5 record with a save over 30.0 innings … recorded 24 strikeouts, including season-high four against Team McCleney in Week Five … registered at least two strikeouts in 10-of-11 appearances.
2022 AUX Season: Compiled 548 leaderboard points after being added to the league roster on June 18 … went 1-for-10 and tallied one sacrifice hit at the plate during final series of the season … made four appearances in the circle, including two starts, and posted 2-1 record … earned nine strikeouts against just two walks over 10.0 innings … allowed just five earned runs and 10 hits in her four outings … threw season-high 4.0 innings against Team O’Toole on June 23 … earned first win as a professional in debut on June 19, throwing 2.0 innings of relief against Team Mulipola … also secured win in season finale against Team Zerkle after pitching final frame of 10-inning victory.
Five-year letter winner for the Beavers who made 160 appearances with 119 starts from 2018-22 … led Oregon State to Women’s College World Series appearance during final season … finished career with 70-61 record and 2.21 earned run average … also au thored 91 complete games with 20 shutouts and 13 saves … registered school-record 861 strikeouts over 866.0 innings … ranked third in program history in career innings pitched … one of seven Oregon State hurlers to earn 50 or more career victories … limited opposing hitters to .220 average during her career, including .158 mark during COVID-shortened 2020 campaign … also batted .327 during her career while starting 171-of-192 games … tallied 21 home runs with 82 runs batted in … also finished with 118 hits, including 22 doubles and two triples … earned First-Team All-America honors by Softball America as a fifth-year senior … also claimed a spot on the NFCA All-America Third Team … three-time NFCA All-Region performer, including First Team recognition in 2022 … recipient of four All-Pac-12 honors, including a pair of First Team nods during 2021 and 2022 campaigns … member of All-Pac-12 Second Team as a sophomore after garnering Third-Team distinction during freshman season … pitched three no-hitters in 2021, including a perfect game against Sacramento State on Mar. 12, 2021 … tied for third in NCAA Division I with six shutouts during 2020 campaign.
Daughter of Joe and Maryellen Mazon … earned a dual degree in psychology and sociology from Oregon State … working toward her Master’s degree in school psy chology at Fresno Pacific University … youngest of four children in the family … oldest sister, Mayleen, played softball for Sonoma State … hobbies include hiking, camping or fishing with her family … also enjoys spending time with her one-year-old Chocolate Lab named Enzo … lists Derek Jeter as her favorite athlete … biggest athletic thrill is winning the first CIF Championship for her high school when she posted 10 strikeouts and allowed one hit in a 2-0 victory … tried out for the Mexico National Team in the summer of 2019.
2022 Championship Season: Compiled 898 leaderboard points while making Ath letes Unlimited debut … collected nine appearances in the circle with four starts … reg istered five strikeouts over 19.0 innings … combined with Taylor McQuillin to record a shutout against Team McCleney in Week Four, throwing season-high 3.0 hitless innings with a strikeout in 3-0 victory … made first start of campaign against Team Mulipola on Aug. 13, posting two strikeouts over season-high 3.1 innings.
Played three seasons with the Sooners after beginning career with two years at Florida International … fashioned 1.62 career earned run average with 71-27 record and 16 saves … appeared in 149 career games with 93 starts … tallied 14 shutouts and 54 com plete games while striking out 854 hitters over 638.1 innings … ranked second in the nation during 2020 COVID-shortened season with five saves … pitched in 80 games during three-year career at Oklahoma, authoring 1.49 earned run average and 35-5 record … finished OU career ranked second in program history with 11 saves … held opposing hitters to .172 average, the sixth-highest mark in Sooner annals … teamed up with Olivia Rains and Giselle Juarez to throw a no-hitter against New Mexico on Feb. 26, 2021 … also pitched in a perfect game during Oklahoma’s 2019 NCAA Regional opener against UMBC … two-time All-Big 12 Conference selection, including First Team recognition as a fifth-year senior … also garnered Second-Team All-Big 12 distinction in 2019 … two-time First-Team All-Conference USA pick at Florida International … accu mulated 19-11 record with 1.51 earned run average in 208.1 innings as a freshman … also posted 17-11 mark during sophomore campaign with a 1.93 earned run average and 267 strikeouts in 181 innings.
Hobbies include reading, fishing and listening to true crime podcasts ... participated in gymnastics and karate as a child.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-9 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: West Covina, Calif. COLLEGE: Washington
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 656 leaderboard points during her sec ond Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season … started seven games and scored three runs with a walk … went 1-for-2 with a run scored and a walk against Team Chidester in Week One … also scored a run against Team Jaquish in Week Two and against Team Chidester in season finale.
2022 AUX Season: Finished in a tie for 34th place in the league standings with 714 leaderboard points … starter in 9-of-10 games who fashioned .310 batting average … tallied nine hits, including two doubles and two home runs … hit game-winning grand slam in 10th inning against Team Zerkle during season finale … finished season finale with two home runs and league-high six runs batted in during 10-6 victory … one of two players to register a grand slam during the inaugural AUX Softball season … also joined Sashel Palacios as the only players in the league to drive in five or more runs in a single game … closed season with four-game hitting streak, going 8-for-19 with two doubles and two home runs … authored season-high three hits against Team O’Toole in first game of June 25 doubleheader.
2021 Championship Season: Compiled 914 leaderboard points during her first Ath letes Unlimited season.
Helped Team USA win bronze medal at the 2018 USA Softball International Cup … also member of Gold medal-winning squad at 2018 Japan Cup.
Began her professional career with Forli of the Italian Softball League in 2017, hitting .540 in 18 games … signed with the Chicago Bandits of NPF in 2018 and registered a hit in her first nine games with the team … finished rookie campaign with .384 batting average along with five home runs and 26 runs batted in.
Five-year letter winner for the Huskies who appeared in 163 games from 2012-16 … played several positions during her career, including catcher, first base, shortstop and third base … missed 2013 campaign due to an injury … posted .298 career batting aver age with 24 home runs and 102 runs batted in … finished career with 120 hits, including 21 doubles and two triples, while scoring 80 runs … Third-Team NFCA All-Pacific Region performer as a junior after belting 18 home runs, which are tied for eighth in Washington single-season history … also received Second-Team All-Pac-12 Conference distinction.
Graduated from Washington in 2016 with a double major in Sociology and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies … earned Master’s of Business Administration from DeVry University in 2021 … mother, Rhonda, was an All-America softball player at Cal Poly Ponoma and won a gold medal with Team USA in 1987 Pan American Games … has a son, Gregory, who enjoys watching her mom play softball.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-10 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Fort Wayne, Ind. COLLEGE: Northwestern
2022 Championship Season: First-year performer who earned 1,070 leaderboard points, including 860 win points, while starting 13-of-15 games … one of six players with a sacrifice fly … batted .256 with two doubles and a triple … also drove in five runs … collected three hits, including a double, during Week Two against Team Harshman … tallied a hit in seven other games.
2022 AUX Season: Finished in seventh place on the leaderboard with 1,240 points while making Athletes Unlimited debut … starter in all 12 games who hit .265 with nine hits while scoring nine runs … talled one home run with eight runs batted in … put together four-game hitting streak from June 14-18, going 6-for-15 during that span … hit first Athletes Unlimited home run with solo shot against Team Eberle on June 15.
Competed for Team Italy at 2020 Tokyo Olympics … batted .231 in five games with three hits … also fashioned perfect fielding percentage with 14 assists and eight putouts … led Italian National Team to 2021 European Championship, posting .526 batting av erage with .615 on-base percentage and 1.263 slugging percentage … also competed in 2020 Australian Pacific Cup.
Played for the NPF’s Chicago Bandits during 2016 season … tallied six hits in 14 games, including a home run, while driving in three runs … spent three years in the Italian Soft ball League … won 2021 Italian Pro League batting title after leading the league with a .517 batting average and eight home runs.
Played final three seasons with the Wildcats after beginning her career at Boston Col lege … earned NFCA All-Region Team distinction three times … two-time First-Team AllBig Ten Conference selection … Third-Team CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree as a senior … tallied 34 home runs and 159 runs batted in over 158 games at Northwestern while hitting .351 … also tallied 160 hits, including 39 doubles with seven triples, while scoring 107 runs … led NCAA Division I with nine sacrifice flies during 2015 season … ranks seventh in program history in batting average and runs batted in… also stands 10th at Northwestern in career home runs … posted .693 career slugging percentage, the fourth-highest mark in school history … one of three players to hit three doubles in a game in Northwestern history … finalist for 2016 Senior CLASS Award … played in 66 games over two seasons at Boston College, posting .317 batting average with eight home runs and 29 runs batted in … tallied 52 hits with the Eagles, including 12 doubles and a triple … earned Second-Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference recognition in 2012.
Has dual citizenship in Italy and the United States … great-grandparents are Italian immigrants who were originally from Fano, Italy … has three brothers … twin brother, Daniel, played college ice hockey … younger brother, Michael, lives and works in New York City … youngest brother, Jonny, plays college golf at Cleveland State … graduated from Northwestern in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in communications … also com pleted her Master’s degree in Sports Administration from Northwestern in 2016 before earning a School of Professional Studies Certificate in Leadership and Marketing in 2017 … served as Director of Operations for the Northwestern softball and field hockey programs from 2018-21 … husband, Kyle Ruchim, played baseball at Northwestern and was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2014 Major League Baseball Draft … husband also played professionally with the Schaumburg Boomers in 2015 and 2017 while also spending time in the Chicago White Sox organization in 2016 … will be inducted into Bishop Dwenger High School Hall of Fame in October 2022 … led her high school softball team to the first state title in program history in 2010.
POSITION: Pitcher HEIGHT: 5-8 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: White Rock, B.C. COLLEGE: Minnesota
ATHLETE CAUSE: Morgan’s Message
2022 Championship Season: Second-year performer who tallied 746 leaderboard points … appeared in eight games with two starts in the circle … ranked third in the league with 3.56 earned run average over 19.2 innings … accumulated 13 strikeouts, in cluding season-high four against Team McCleney in Week Five … also had three strike outs in season finale against Team Mulipola … threw season-high 4.0 innings three times.
2021 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,032 leaderboard points in Athletes Un limited debut … tied for the league lead with 13 appearances in the circle, including three starts … fashioned 3-5 record … ranked fourth in the league with 32.0 innings … ninth in the circuit with 16 strikeouts … hit by a pitch twice, which was tied for third in the league.
Member of the Canadian National Team since 2013 when she was 17 years old … led Team Canada to Bronze medal at 2020 Tokyo Olympics … went 2-for-6 at the plate in five games with a double … also posted a 1-0 record in five appearances in the circle, striking out 14 hitters in 13.1 innings … tallied four strikeouts in 2.0 innings against Team USA … earned win in Bronze Medal Game against Team Mexico, throwing 3.0 shutout innings in 3-2 victory … led Team Canada to Gold medal at 2015 Pan American Games, which marked Canada’s first Gold medal in 32 years … also became youngest starting pitcher in Team Canada history to earn a Gold medal … became first Team Canada pitcher to throw a perfect game on Aug. 5, 2019, against Venezuela at the Pan Ameri can Games in Lima, Peru.
No. 2 overall selection in the 2017 NPF Draft by the Akron Racers … garnered All-NPF honors in 2019 after accumulating a 6-4 record with three saves and a 1.52 earned run average … made 17 appearances, including 11 starts, with 64 strikeouts.
Four-year letter winner for the Golden Gophers who appeared in 233 games from 2014-17 … first player in program history to earn NFCA All-America honors three times, including a pair of First-Team commendations in 2016 and 2017 … two-time selection as Big Ten Conference Pitcher of the Year (2014, 2017) … named 2015 Big Ten Player of the Year in addition to 2014 Big Ten Freshman of the Year … First-Team Senior CLASS Award All-America pick in 2017 … four-time NFCA All-Region and First-Team All-Big Ten honoree … member of 2017 Big Ten All-Defensive Team … tabbed Most Outstanding Player at 2017 Big Ten Tournament … Third-Team CoSIDA Academic All-America pick in 2017 … compiled .305 career batting average with 36 home runs and 157 runs batted in … also tallied 196 hits, including 37 doubles with two triples, while scoring 99 runs … made 152 appearances in the circle, including 125 starts … fashioned 107-21 record as a pitcher with eight saves and a 1.58 earned run average … tallied school-record 1,214 strikeouts in 797.0 innings with 82 complete games and 31 shutouts … ranks fourth in Minnesota history in career pitching appearances … also stands fifth in career complete games … one of two pitchers in school history with 100 or more career victories … owns three of the top five single-season win totals as a pitcher in Golden Gopher history … posted 0.63 earned run average as a senior, the second-best mark in Minnesota annals … ranks second on school’s single-season list with 379 strikeouts during sophomore season … also threw 336 strikeouts as a junior to stand fourth on the list … threw eight career no-hitters, including a perfect game against Florida Atlantic on Mar. 12, 2016 … holds school single-game record with 19 strikeouts against Purdue on May 2, 2015.
Most memorable sports thrill was winning her Canadian national championship game in the bottom of the seventh inning … diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of nine … uncle, Leo, played 17 years in the Canadian Football League … sister, Marina, played softball at Bradley in 2013 and 2014 after transferring from Southern Idaho … hobbies include going to coffee shops, cooking and being in nature … began playing softball at the age of five.
POSITION: Outfield HEIGHT: 5-3 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Kansas City, Mo. COLLEGE: Oklahoma State
2022 Championship Season: First-year performer who appeared in 10 games … accu mulated 866 leaderboard points … scored two runs and drew two walks … tallied a run with a walk against Team Chidester during Week Four … also collected a walk against Team McCleney during Week Three.
Played three seasons at Oklahoma State after transferring from Northeastern Oklaho ma … compiled .321 batting average with the Cowgirls while starting 130 games … tal lied 15 home runs with 72 runs batted in … two-time NFCA All-Region selection, includ ing First-Team honors as a redshirt senior … earned First-Team All-Big 12 Conference recognition as a junior and redshirt senior … led Oklahoma State to NCAA Women’s College World Series appearance in 2019 … batted .307 with eight home runs and 34 runs batted in … started five games during 2018 campaign before missing remainder of the season due to injury … tallied seven home runs with 38 runs batted in while starting 63 games in first year at Oklahoma State … became fourth player in program history to earn an NCAA statistical title when she led the country with school-record 71 walks during 2018 campaign … set school record with a .596 batting average over two seasons at Northeastern Oklahoma … two-time selection as NJCAA Player of the Year … also claimed pair of NJCAA All-America commendations … belted school-record 42 home runs with 160 runs batted in … also accumulated NJCAA-record 251 hits, includ ing school-record 52 doubles and seven triples … finished time at Northeastern Okla homa owning career records in runs scored (208) and total bases (443) … set school single-season records in hits (133), runs scored (111), runs batted in (90), batting average (.621), on-base percentage (.703) and slugging percentage (1.163) as a sophomore … also matched Northeastern Oklahoma single-season record with 23 home runs, a mark that ranked fourth nationally … also ranked second in the country with 55 walks, which established a new school record … ranked second in NJCAA during freshman season with .624 on-base percentage … also received NJCAA District B Marucci Elite Hitter award in 2015.
Joined softball coaching staff at Kansas City on Sept. 9, 2022, after spending 2022 campaign at Morehead State … earned her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State in 2018 … also received her Master’s degree in leisure studies at Oklahoma State in 2020 … started playing softball when she was seven years old … three-sport athlete in high school who also played basketball and soccer.
POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-4 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: The Woodlands, Texas COLLEGE: Tennessee
2022 Championship Season: Finished 12th on the leaderboard with 1,450 points in return to Athletes Unlimited action … tied for third in the league with 1,160 win points and 14 runs scored … starter in 12-of-14 games who posted .383 batting average … also claimed share of fourth place in the league with 18 hits … scored season-high three runs against Team Chidester in Week Four … posted six multi-hit games, including sea son-high three hits against Team Chidester on Aug. 14 … hit safely in 11-of-15 games, including four straight outings from Aug. 5-12.
2020 Championship Season: Finished inaugural season in 17th place on the leader board with 1,430 points … tied for 12th in the league with 1,120 win points … starter in all 15 games who hit .346 with two doubles and eight runs batted in … tied with Hannah Flippen for seventh place with 18 hits … also scored 12 runs and drew two walks … led circuit with three sacrifice hits … stole six bases in six attempts, good for second among all players … tied for fourth in Athletes Unlimited with 52 at-bats.
Member of This Is Us softball team, which was formed in June 2020 … also played for Scrap Yard Fastpitch in 2019.
Four-year letter winner for the Lady Volunteers who started 240 games from 2016-19 … one of 12 players in program history to earn multiple NFCA All-America commendations … two-time NFCA First-Team All-Region selection … garnered All-Southeastern Con ference notice twice, including First-Team distinction in 2018 … authored .385 career batting average with six home runs and 88 runs batted in … ranks fifth in school history for career batting average … tallied 269 hits, including 30 doubles and seven triples, while scoring school-record 255 runs … stands ninth on Lady Vols’ career hits list … stole 77 bases in 84 attempts during her career, the eighth-highest marks in Tennessee history … drew program-record 84 career walks … posted .503 on-base percentage, good for second on UT career list … earned NFCA Third-Team All-America honors as a senior after ranking fourth in the SEC with .411 batting average while collecting 72 hits with 65 runs scored … NFCA All-America First Team honoree in 2018 after setting Tennessee single-season record by scoring 80 runs … also led SEC and ranked 12th in NCAA Division I in batting average during junior campaign … led nation with 1.31 runs scored per game during 2018 campaign … paced SEC with 60 runs scored in 2017 while finishing second on the team with 22 stolen bases … earned SEC All-Freshman Team recognition in 2016 after batting .348 with 57 hits and 50 runs scored … 2019 Senior CLASS Award finalist … named Top 25 finalist for 2018 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year.
Majored in political science at Tennessee … currently enrolled in law school at Ten nessee while serving as a graduate assistant coach for the Lady Vols softball team … grandmother, Wilma Ann Williams-Leach, played professional baseball for the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
POSITION: Pitcher HEIGHT: 6-1 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Rusk, Texas COLLEGE: Alabama
2022 Championship Season: Compiled 986 leaderboard points during first Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship Season … ranked seventh in the league with 4.67 earned run average over 18.0 innings … posted 2-0 record in eight appearances, in cluding two starts … had three strikeouts in a game twice … pitched season-long 3.2 innings in season debut against Team Zerkle on July 30, allowing two earned runs on five hits … also threw 3.1 innings in relief against Team Denham on Aug. 26 with three strikeouts.
2022 AUX Season: Made impressive Athletes Unlimited debut by placing ninth in the league standings with 1,178 leaderboard points … fourth in the league with 2.82 earned run average after making nine appearances, including three starts … authored 1-0 record with one save … fourth in the circuit with 11 strikeouts over 27.1 innings … allowed just 11 earned runs in nine outings … threw season-high 5.1 innings against Team O’Toole on June 25, allowing one earned run on four hits … earned first Athletes Unlimited victory on June 24 with 4.0 innings against Team Zerkle, allowing one run on three hits … registered save on June 18 after throwing 2.0 innings against Team Gibson on June 18 … posted season-high four strikeouts against Team Mulipola on June 18.
Four-year letter winner for the Crimson Tide who made 129 appearances in the circle from 2014-17 … made 81 starts, which are tied for sixth on career list … compiled 67-20 career record with 1.77 earned run average, which ranks sixth in program history … tied for sixth on Alabama’s career wins list … posted 438 strikeouts in 538.2 innings pitched while limiting opponents to .210 batting average … also tallied 43 complete games with 19 shutouts and seven saves during career … owns seven career saves, good for eighth in program history … only pitcher in Alabama history with multiple perfect games during career … Second-Team NFCA All-America and All-Southeastern Conference performer as a junior … member of NFCA All-Region First Team in 2016 … two-time member of SEC Community Service Team … two-time CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team honoree … threw two solo perfect games during the 2015 season and combined for two other no-hitters during her career … authored 1.31 earned run average during 2017 season, which ranks as the sixth-best mark in Alabama single-season history … owns distinction of throwing first perfect game in Rhodes Stadium history.
Majored in exercise science at Alabama … owns Master’s degrees in nutrition scienc es and sports business management … currently works with the University of Florida football team as a registered dietitian with her husband, Alex, who played football at Alabama and works as a strength and conditioning coach at Florida … animal lover who has two dogs - Leo and Bo … hobbies include anything to do with animals, baking and trying new restaurants.
POSITION: Pitcher HEIGHT: 6-0 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Bollate, Lombardia, Italy COLLEGE: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,044 leaderboard points while making her Athletes Unlimited debut … tied for eighth in the league with 1,060 win points … appeared in three games in the circle … made Athletes Unlimited debut against Team Ocasio in Week One, throwing a scoreless inning … also pitched against Team Zerkle in Week One and Team Chidester in Week Four.
Member of Team Italy at 2020 Tokyo Olympics … made four appearances in the cir cle … recorded eight strikeouts in 18.1 innings … threw 6.0 innings against Australia and allowed just one earned run on four hits with two strikeouts … won four European Championship Gold medals while representing Italy from 2006-21.
Owns all-time Italian Softball League record with 1,988 strikeouts from 2004-21 … also played five seasons in the Australian Softball League … competed for SGH Galaxy Stars in the Japan Diamond “JD” League in 2022.
Played two seasons at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi after starting college career at Polk State College … posted 1.77 earned run average in 106.2 innings during 2011 campaign … also fashioned 1.86 ERA as a senior with 123 strikeouts in 109.1 innings … tied for seventh in program history with 19 victories … also threw 19 complete games with the Islanders, good for 10th on career list … ranks second in Texas A&M-Corpus Christi history with 1.81 career earned run average … one of seven pitchers in school history with 200 or more career strikeouts (204) … Second-Team All-Southland Conference performer as a senior … two-year starter at Polk State College before transferring … owns Vikings’ season and career records in earned run average, wins and shutouts … led team to 2009 Suncoast Conference title … named Second-Team NJCAA All-Amer ica in 2010 … two-time pick as Suncoast Conference Pitcher of the Year … had her jersey retired at Polk State College and was inducted into the school’s Athletes Hall of Fame in 2013.
Majored in psychology at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi … first born and raised Italian soft ball player to play at the NCAA Division I level … also first born and raised Italian softball player to play professional softball in Japan … will be the first born and raised Italian softball player to ever play professional softball in the United States when she com petes for Athletes Unlimited in 2022 … sister, Lara, plays softball and has represented Italy in numerous events … has played with her sister on numerous softball teams … hobbies include hiking in the Dolomites, photography and collecting mugs from all over the world … also enjoys drinking coffee and tea … has a cat named Ketchup.
2022 Championship Season: Third-year performer who ended campaign with ca reer-best 1,074 leaderboard points, including 790 win points … set league single-sea son record by making 14 appearances in the circle with three starts … compiled 4-3 record with a save … fourth in the circuit with 35.1 innings pitched … ranked second in the league with 46 strikeouts, including three games with five strikeouts … threw season-high 4.0 innings in three consecutive outings from Aug. 20-26 … did not allow a run in four straight appearances from Aug. 14-21, pitching 10.0 innings with three hits and 11 strikeouts … accumulated season-high 228 leaderboard points after throwing 4.0 scoreless innings and allowing just one hit against Team McCleney on Aug. 21.
2021 Championship Season: Compiled 962 leaderboard points … tied for ninth in the league with 120 MVP points … made eight appearances in the circle, including five starts … authored 3-3 record with a 3.92 earned run average … one of five pitchers to hurl a complete game … sixth in the league with 30.0 innings pitched … tied for third with 23 strikeouts … allowed 17 earned runs on 29 hits.
2020 Championship Season: Accumulated 784 leaderboard points during inaugural season … made 12 appearances in the circle, including two starts … posted 1-2 record with 8.61 earned run average … recorded lone save of the season … authored 19 strike outs in 20.0 innings.
Helped Team Mexico qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics … made one appearance at the Tokyo Olympics, throwing 1.2 innings against Canada with two strikeouts and two hits.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE No. 6 overall selection in the 2019 NPF Draft by the Cleveland Comets … threw 53.2 innings during her rookie season while compiling a 5-3 record with a 2.87 earned run average … played for the Hitachi Sundivas of the Japan Diamond League in 2022.
Four-year letter winner for the Wildcats who made 134 appearances, including 106 starts, from 2016-19 … accrued 80-32 career record with five saves, a 1.95 earned run average and 815 strikeouts over 697.1 innings … finished career with 77 complete games and 33 shutouts … First-Team NFCA All-America selection as a senior … also earned Second-Team All-America notice from Fastpitch News and Third-Team honors from Softball America … four-time All-Pac-12 Conference selection, including First-Team commendations as junior and senior … three-time NFCA All-Region pick … led NCAA Division I with 15 shutouts in 2018, becoming first Arizona pitcher to accomplish the feat … one of 34 finalists for USA Softball Player of the Year in 2017 … ranks 10th in career earned run average … stands ninth in Wildcat softball history in career victories … holds seventh place on career strikeouts list … threw five-inning no-hitter against New Mexico on Feb. 11, 2018.
Proudest moment was representing her family as a member of Team Mexico and quali fying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics … says “Be where your feet are” is her favorite piece of advice … hobbies include reading, watching Netflix, listening to music and spending time outside … has been legally blind in her left eye since she was born … uncle, Tim Quintanilla, played baseball at USC.
POSITION: Corner Infield HEIGHT: 5-8 BATS/THROWS: R/R HOMETOWN: Humble, Texas COLLEGE: Texas
2022 Championship Season: Third-year performer who accumulated 1,152 leader board points to finish 29th in the league standings … starter in 9-of-14 games who tallied four hits, including a double … also scored twice while drawing four walks … went 2-for-4 with a run scored in Week One finale against Team Chidester … also logged a double in Week Two against Team Harshman.
2022 AUX Season: Finished in 25th place during inaugural AUX Softball campaign after compiling 832 leaderboard points … tied for fourth in the league with five multihit games … posted five-game hitting streak from June 13-19, going 9-for-17 during the streak … also hit lone home run of the season during the hitting streak with a solo shot against Team Eberle on June 15 … closed season with at least one hit in final four games.
2021 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,194 leaderboard points to finish in 26th place … tied for third in the league by being hit by a pitch two times.
2020 Championship Season: Posted 1,080 leaderboard points in first Athletes Unlim ited season … hit .273 in 15 games, including 14 starts … tied for fifth in the league with three doubles … also shared eighth place with four home runs while driving in 12 runs.
Two-time All-NPF selection who earned Jennie Finch Award in 2018 … appeared in 194 games over five seasons from 2014-18, compiling 21 home runs with 81 runs batted in … hit .321 during 2017 season with 30 hits, including career-best 10 home runs, in 50 games for Texas Charge … opened career with Akron Racers in 2014 before spending three seasons with Dallas/Texas Charge … tallied five home runs with 24 runs batted in during 2018 campaign with a .270 batting average … also played in Minamo Softball League in Japan.
Four-year letter winner for the Longhorns from 2009-12 … four-time NFCA All-Region performer, including First-Team honors as a freshman, sophomore and junior … also earned All-Big 12 Conference distinction all four years, including pair of First-Team ac colades … ranks fourth in program history with 234 career games played … also shares second place on Longhorns’ career games started list (234) … authored .337 batting av erage with 32 home runs and 131 runs batted in … collected 219 hits, including 40 dou bles and two triples, with 120 runs scored … led Longhorns with 16 doubles as a senior … finished career with 41 doubles, the fifth-highest mark in program history … stands eighth on Texas’ career list with 32 home runs … drew 87 career walks to rank sixth all-time at Texas … owns school record by being hit by a pitch 21 times in her career … reached base safely in 21 consecutive games during freshman season … registered school-record 162 assists as a freshman … hit three doubles against New Mexico on Apr. 1, 2012, to match single-game record … set a school record with five walks against Kansas on Apr. 14, 2012 … two-sport athlete who also played for Longhorns’ basketball team during 2013-14 season … appeared in 14 games and made one start while shoot ing 35.7 percent (5-for-14) from the field.
Named assistant softball coach at Michigan State on July 26, 2022 … majored in phys ical culture and sports with a minor in business at Texas … owns NT88 Sports Perfor mance and 88’s Nutrition and Recovery, training Major League Baseball, college base ball and college softball players … brother is a running back for the Green Bay Packers … sister is a high school volleyball coach.
POSITION: Middle Infield HEIGHT: 5-4 BATS/THROWS: L/R HOMETOWN: Ceres, Calif. COLLEGE: Washington
2022 Championship Season: Compiled 1,024 leaderboard points during second Ath letes Unlimited Softball Championship Season … starter in 14 games who fashioned .238 batting average with 10 hits, including a triple … also drove in two runs while scoring six runs … posted back-to-back two-hit performances against Team Eberle and Team Harshman to close Week Two … hit safely in four of final seven games.
2022 AUX Season: Inaugural GEICO AUX Softball Defensive MVP who accrued 658 leaderboard points … starter in all 12 games who batted .220 with nine hits, including a double … also drove in five runs … registered league-high nine assists at shortstop against Team O’Toole on June 25 … closed season with four-game hitting streak, in cluding two-hit performance against Team O’Toole on June 23 … also tallied two hits against Team Eberle on June 14 with a double and two runs batted in … earned No. 7 spot on SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays on June 18 against Team Fischer.
2021 Championship Season: Ninth in the league with 1,468 leaderboard points … tied with Kelsey Stewart for second in Athletes Unlimited with 1,190 win points … starter in all 15 games who hit .326 … registered 14 hits, including six for extra bases … tied for league lead with five doubles … one of eight players to hit a triple … also stole a base … one of 12 players selected in Athletes Unlimited Softball College Draft.
Won Gold medal with Team USA in 2017 WBSC Junior Women’s World Championship after hitting .444 (12-for-27) with 12 runs scored and seven runs batted in … also partic ipated in World Cup of Softball XII and finished with .350 batting average while driving in nine runs.
Five-year letter winner for the Huskies who started all 261 career games from 2017-21 … fashioned .385 career batting average with nine home runs and 145 runs batted in … closed career as Washington’s all-time leader with 320 hits … three-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year recipient … earned NFCA All-America honors three times, including First-Team recognition as a sophomore and junior … also received All-Pac-12 First Team notice as a sophomore, junior and graduate student … named 2019 Seat tle Female Sports Star of the Year … one of seven unanimous All-America selections during the 2019 campaign who was a finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award … one of six players in program history to record 200 or more hits over first three seasons.
Graduated from Washington in 2020 and returned to pursue a Master’s degree in Ed ucation … first name is Nicole … earned nickname Sis when she grew up playing wiffle ball in her neighborhood with her older brother and his friends.
PICK WEEK ONE WEEK TWO WEEK THREE WEEK FOUR WEEK FIVE
Captain Aleshia Ocasio (P) Carrie Eberle (P) Dejah Mulipola (C) Dejah Mulipola (C) Dejah Mulipola (C)
Captain Amanda Chidester (CIF) Sahvanna Jaquish (C) Haylie McCleney (OF) Haylie McCleney (OF) Amanda Chidester (CIF)
Captain Carrie Eberle (P) Dejah Mulipola (C) Sahvanna Jaquish (C) Sahvanna Jaquish (C) Alyssa Denham (P)
Captain Morgan Zerkle (OF) Kelsey Harshman (MIF) Amanda Chidester (CIF) Amanda Chidester (CIF) Haylie McCleney (OF)
1 Rachel Garcia (P) Rachel Garcia (P) Anissa Urtez (MIF) Anissa Urtez (MIF) Danielle O'Toole (P)
2 Mia Davidson (C) Danielle O'Toole (P) Danielle O'Toole (P) Rachel Garcia (P) Rachel Garcia (P)
3 Anissa Urtez (MIF) Hannah Flippen (MIF) Rachel Garcia (P) Danielle O'Toole (P) Anissa Urtez (MIF)
4 Danielle O'Toole (P) Anissa Urtez (MIF) Hannah Flippen (MIF) Taylor McQuillin (P) Taylor McQuillin (P)
5 Gwen Svekis (C) Sierra Romero (MIF) Aleshia Ocasio (P) Hannah Flippen (MIF) Hannah Flippen (MIF)
6 Haylie McCleney (OF) Aleshia Ocasio (P) Amanda Lorenz (OF) Amanda Lorenz (OF) Mariah Mazon (P)
7 Hannah Flippen (MIF) Haylie McCleney (OF) Bubba Nickles (OF) Bubba Nickles (OF) Amanda Lorenz (OF)
8 Dejah Mulipola (C) Sydney Romero (MIF) Erika Piancastelli (C) Alyssa Denham (P) Peyton St. George (P)
9 Sydney Romero (MIF) Taylor McQuillin (P) Gwen Svekis (C) Carrie Eberle (P) Erika Piancastelli (C)
10 Haylie Wagner (P) Amanda Chidester (CIF) Sydney Romero (MIF) Peyton St. George (P) Sahvanna Jaquish (C)
11 Sierra Romero (MIF) Bubba Nickles (OF) Taylor Edwards (C) Mariah Mazon (P) Taylor Edwards (C)
12 Amanda Lorenz (OF) Morgan Zerkle (OF) Shannon Rhodes (OF) Victoria Hayward (OF) Victoria Hayward (OF)
13 Janae Jefferson (MIF) Victoria Hayward (OF) Carrie Eberle (P) Odicci Alexander (P) Carrie Eberle (P)
14 Peyton St. George (P) Gwen Svekis (C) Sis Bates (MIF) Shannon Rhodes (OF) Bubba Nickles (OF)
15 Victoria Hayward (OF) Erika Piancastelli (C) Peyton St. George (P) Taylor Edwards (C) Tori Vidales (CIF)
16 Taylor McQuillin (P) Megan Wiggins (OF) Alyssa Denham (P) Gwen Svekis (C) Sam Fischer (CIF)
17 Sahvanna Jaquish (C) Taylor Edwards (C) Sara Groenewegen (P) Kelsey Harshman (MIF) Shannon Rhodes (OF)
18 Sam Fischer (CIF) Peyton St. George (P) Tori Vidales (CIF) Sis Bates (MIF) Aubrey Leach (MIF)
19 Erika Piancastelli (C) Sara Groenewegen (P) Victoria Hayward (OF) Sam Fischer (CIF) Kelsey Harshman (MIF)
20 Sis Bates (MIF) Shannon Rhodes (OF) Andrea Filler (MIF) Sydney Romero (MIF) Sydney Romero (MIF)
21 Sara Groenewegen (P) Mariah Mazon (P) Jazmyn Jackson (OF) Erika Piancastelli (C) Morgan Zerkle (OF)
22 Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P) Jazmyn Jackson (OF) Taylor McQuillin (P) Aubrey Leach (MIF) Haylie Wagner (P)
23 Odicci Alexander (P) Sis Bates (MIF) Aubrey Leach (MIF) Morgan Zerkle (OF) Caleigh Clifton (MIF)
24 Megan Wiggins (OF) Aliyah Andrews (OF) Sam Fischer (CIF) Aliyah Andrews (OF) Sis Bates (MIF)
25 Shannon Saile (P) Tori Vidales (CIF) Morgan Zerkle (OF) Tori Vidales (CIF) Abby Ramirez (MIF)
26 Jazmyn Jackson (OF) Sam Fischer (CIF) Kelsey Harshman (MIF) Sierra Romero (MIF) Gwen Svekis (C)
27 Bubba Nickles (OF) Janae Jefferson (OF) Sierra Romero (MIF) Danielle Gibson (CIF) Jazmyn Jackson (OF)
28 Nadia Taylor (CIF) Sydney Sherrill (CIF) Odicci Alexander (P) Lilli Piper (CIF) Shannon Saile (P)
29 Tori Vidales (CIF) Alyssa Denham (P) Lilli Piper (CIF) Jazmyn Jackson (OF) Lilli Piper (CIF)
30 Danielle Watson (P) Haylie Wagner (P) Mariah Mazon (P) Sashel Palacios (C) Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P)
31 Alysen Febrey (CIF) Odicci Alexander (P) Megan Wiggins (OF) Megan Wiggins (OF) Megan Wiggins (OF)
32 Alyssa Denham (P) Shannon Saile (P) Haylie Wagner (P) Aleshia Ocasio (P) Andrea Filler (MIF)
33 Andrea Filler (MIF) Hayley Busby (CIF) Abby Ramirez (MIF) Maggie Balint (P) Maggie Balint (P)
34 Taylor Edwards (C) Aubrey Leach (MIF) Sashel Palacios (C) Haylie Wagner (P) DJ Sanders (CIF)
35 Aliyah Andrews (OF) Andrea Filler (MIF) Mia Davidson (C) Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P) Sydney Sherrill (CIF)
36 Shannon Rhodes (OF) Lilli Piper (CIF) Janae Jefferson (MIF) Shannon Saile (P) Mia Davidson (C)
37 Sashel Palacios (C) Sashel Palacios (C) Aliyah Andrews (OF) DJ Sanders (CIF) Odicci Alexander (P)
38 Aubrey Leach (MIF) Amanda Lorenz (OF) Sydney Sherrill (CIF) Caleigh Clifton (MIF) Sara Groenewegen (P)
39 Kiki Stokes-O'Connor (OF) Kiki Stokes-O'Connor (OF) Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P) Andrea Filler (MIF) Aleshia Ocasio (P)
40 Caleigh Clifton (MIF) Caleigh Clifton (MIF) Kiki Stokes-O'Connor (OF) Abby Ramirez (MIF) Nadia Taylor (CIF)
41 Lilli Piper (CIF) Danielle Watson (P) Maggie Balint (P) Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF) Danielle Watson (P)
42 Kelsey Harshman (MIF) Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P) Nadia Taylor (CIF) Sara Groenewegen (P) Janae Jefferson (MIF)
43 Mariah Mazon (P) Danielle Gibson (CIF) Danielle Gibson (CIF) Mia Davidson (C) Hayley Busby (CIF)
44 Danielle Gibson (CIF) Mia Davidson (C) Hayley Busby (CIF) Janae Jefferson (MIF) Aliyah Andrews (OF)
45 Rachel Lewis (OF) Alysen Febrey (CIF) Alysen Febrey (CIF) Greta Cecchetti (P) Sierra Romero (MIF)
Aly Harrell (CIF) DJ Sanders (CIF) Caleigh Clifton (CIF) Nadia Taylor (CIF) Kiki Stokes-O'Connor (OF)
DJ Sanders (CIF) Nadia Taylor (CIF) DJ Sanders (CIF) Hayley Busby (CIF) Danielle Gibson (CIF)
Courtney Gano (CIF) Rachel Lewis (OF) Aly Harrell (CIF) Sydney Sherrill (CIF) Aly Harrell (CIF)
Hayley Busby (CIF) Courtney Gano (CIF) Rachel Lewis (OF) Rachel Lewis (OF) Sashel Palacios (C)
Greta Cecchetti (P) Abby Ramirez (MIF) Shannon Saile (P) Alysen Febrey (CIF) Rachel Lewis (OF)
Jordan Roberts (C) Maggie Balint (P) Danielle Watson (P) Danielle Watson (P) Jordan Roberts (C)
Abby Ramirez (MIF) Rylee Bayless (MIF) Jordan Roberts (C) Kiki Stokes-O'Connor (OF) Alysen Febrey (CIF)
Maggie Balint (P) Greta Cecchetti (P) Greta Cecchetti (P) Aly Harrell (CIF) Courtney Gano (CIF)
Sydney Sherrill (CIF) Aly Harrell (CIF) Courtney Gano (CIF) Rylee Bayless (CIF) Rylee Bayless (CIF)
Rylee Bayless (OF) Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF) Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF) Courtney Gano (CIF) Greta Cecchetti (P)
Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF) Jordan Roberts (C) Rylee Bayless (CIF) Jordan Roberts (C) Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF)
Captain Aleshia Ocasio (P) Amanda Chidester (CIF) Carrie Eberle (P) Morgan Zerkle (OF)
1 Danielle O’Toole (P) Anissa Urtez (MIF) Mia Davidson (C) Rachel Garcia (P)
2 Gwen Svekis (C) Haylie McCleney (OF) Hannah Flippen (MIF) Dejah Mulipola (C)
3 Amanda Lorenz (OF) Sierra Romero (MIF) Haylie Wagner (P) Sydney Romero (MIF)
4 Janae Jefferson (MIF) Peyton St. George (P) Victoria Hayward (OF) Taylor McQuillin (P)
5 Sis Bates (MIF) Erika Piancastelli (C) Sam Fischer (CIF) Sahvanna Jaquish (C)
6 Sara Groenewegen (P) Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P) Odicci Alexander (P) Megan Wiggins (OF)
7 Nadia Taylor (CIF) Bubba Nickles (OF) Jazmyn Jackson (OF) Shannon Saile (P)
8 Tori Vidales (CIF) Danielle Watson (P) Alysen Febrey (CIF) Alyssa Denham (P)
9 Shannon Rhodes (OF) Aliyah Andrews (OF) Tatum Edwards (C) Andrea Filler (MIF)
10 Sashel Palacios (C) Aubrey Leach (MIF) Kiki Stokes-O’Connor (OF) Caleigh Clifton (MIF)
11 Danielle Gibson (CIF) Mariah Mazon (P) Kelsey Harshman (MIF) Lilli Piper (CIF)
12 Rachel Lewis (OF) Aly Harrell (MIF) DJ Sanders (CIF) Courtney Gano (CIF)
13 Abby Ramirez (MIF) Jordan Roberts (C) Greta Cecchetti (P) Hayley Busby (CIF)
14 Maggie Balint (P) Sydney Sherrill (CIF) Rylee Bayless (OF) Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF)
ROUND TEAM EBERLE (GOLD)
Captain Carrie Eberle (P) Sahvanna Jaquish (C) Dejah Mulipola (C)
1 Anissa Urtez (MIF) Hannah Flippen (MIF) Danielle O’Toole (P)
Kelsey Harshman (MIF)
Rachel Garcia (P)
2 Sierra Romero (MIF) Aleshia Ocasio (P) Haylie McCleney (OF) Sydney Romero (MIF)
3 Morgan Zerkle (OF) Bubba Nickles (OF) Amanda Chidester (CIF)
Taylor McQuillin (P)
4 Victoria Hayward (OF) Gwen Svekis (C) Erika Piancastelli (C) Megan Wiggins (OF)
5 Shannon Rhodes (OF) Sara Groenewegen (P) Peyton St. George (P) Taylor Edwards (C)
6 Mariah Mazon (P) Jazmyn Jackson (OF) Sis Bates (MIF) Aliyah Andrews (OF)
7 Sydney Sherrill (CIF) Janae Jefferson (OF) Sam Fischer (CIF)
Tori Vidales (CIF)
8 Alyssa Denham (P) Haylie Wagner (P) Odicci Alexander (P) Shannon Saile (P)
9 Lilli Piper (CIF) Andrea Filler (MIF) Aubrey Leach (MIF) Hayley Busby (CIF)
10 Sashel Palacios (C) Amanda Lorenz (OF) Kiki Stokes-O’Connor (OF) Caleigh Clifton (MIF)
11 Mia Davidson (C) Danielle Gibson (CIF) Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P) Danielle Watson (P)
12 Alysen Febrey (CIF) DJ Sanders (CIF) Nadia Taylor (CIF) Rachel Lewis (OF)
13 Rylee Bayless (MIF) Maggie Balint (P) Abby Ramirez (MIF) Courtney Gano (CIF)
14 Greta Cecchetti (P) Aly Harrell (CIF) Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF) Jordan Roberts (C)
ROUND TEAM MULIPOLA (GOLD)
Captain Dejah Mulipola (C) Haylie McCleney (OF)
Sahvanna Jaquish (C)
Amanda Chidester (CIF)
1 Hannah Flippen (MIF) Rachel Garcia (P) Danielle O’Toole (P) Anissa Urtez (MIF)
2 Aleshia Ocasio (P) Amanda Lorenz (OF) Bubba Nickles (OF) Erika Piancastelli (C)
3 Shannon Rhodes (OF) Taylor Edwards (C) Sydney Romero (MIF) Gwen Svekis (C)
4 Carrie Eberle (P) Sis Bates (MIF) Peyton St. George (P)
5 Andrea Filler (MIF) Victoria Hayward (OF) Tori Vidales (CIF)
6 Jazmyn Jackson (OF) Taylor McQuillin (P) Aubrey Leach (MIF)
Alyssa Denham (P)
Sara Groenewegen (P)
Sam Fischer (CIF)
7 Odicci Alexander (P) Sierra Romero (MIF) Kelsey Harshman (MIF) Morgan Zerkle (OF)
8 Lilli Piper (CIF) Mariah Mazon (P) Megan Wiggins (OF) Haylie Wagner (P)
9 Janae Jefferson (MIF) Mia Davidson (C) Sashel Palacios (C) Abby Ramirez (MIF)
10 Aliyah Andrews (OF) Sydney Sherrill (CIF) Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P) Kiki Stokes-O’Connor (OF)
11 Hayley Busby (CIF) Danielle Gibson (CIF) Nadia Taylor (CIF) Maggie Balint (P)
12 Alysen Febrey (OF) Caleigh Clifton (CIF) DJ Sanders (CIF)
Aly Harrell (CIF)
13 Jordan Roberts (C) Danielle Watson (P) Shannon Saile (P) Rachel Lewis (OF)
14 Greta Cecchetti (P) Courtney Gano (CIF) Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF) Rylee Bayless (CIF)
Captain Dejah Mulipola (C)
Haylie McCleney (OF)
Sahvanna Jaquish (C)
1 Taylor McQuillin (P) Danielle O’Toole (P) Rachel Garcia (P)
2 Hannah Flippen (MIF) Amanda Lorenz (OF) Bubba Nickles (OF)
Amanda Chidester (CIF)
Anissa Urtez (MIF)
Alyssa Denham (P)
3 Victoria Hayward (OF) Mariah Mazon (P) Peyton St. George (P) Carrie Eberle (P)
4 Odicci Alexander (P) Shannon Rhodes (OF) Taylor Edwards (C) Gwen Svekis (C)
5 Sydney Romero (MIF) Sam Fischer (CIF) Sis Bates (MIF)
Kelsey Harshman (MIF)
6 Erika Piancastelli (C) Aubrey Leach (MIF) Morgan Zerkle (OF) Aliyah Andrews (OF)
7 Lilli Piper (CIF) Danielle Gibson (CIF) Sierra Romero (MIF) Tori Vidales (CIF)
8 Jazmyn Jackson (OF) Sashel Palacios (C) Megan Wiggins (OF) Aleshia Ocasio (P)
9 Shannon Saile (P) Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P) Haylie Wagner (P) Maggie Balint (P)
10 DJ Sanders (CIF) Caleigh Clifton (MIF) Andrea Filler (MIF) Abby Ramirez (MIF)
11 Janae Jefferson (MIF) Mia Davidson (C) Sara Groenewegen (P) Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF)
12 Greta Cecchetti (P) Nadia Taylor (CIF) Hayley Busby (CIF) Sydney Sherrill (CIF)
13 Kiki Stokes-O’Connor (OF) Danielle Watson (P) Alysen Febrey (CIF) Rachel Lewis (OF)
14 Aly Harrell (CIF) Rylee Bayless (CIF) Courtney Gano (CIF) Jordan Roberts (C)
ROUND TEAM MULIPOLA (GOLD)
Captain Dejah Mulipola (C) Amanda Chidester (CIF) Alyssa Denham (P) Haylie McCleney (OF)
1 Taylor McQuillin (P) Anissa Urtez (MIF) Rachel Garcia (P) Danielle O'Toole (P)
2 Hannah Flippen (MIF) Mariah Mazon (P) Amanda Lorenz (OF) Peyton St. George (P)
3 Victoria Hayward (OF) Taylor Edwards (C) Sahvanna Jaquish (C) Erika Piancastelli (C)
4 Carrie Eberle (P) Bubba Nickles (OF) Tori Vidales (CIF)
Sam Fischer (CIF)
5 Sydney Romero (MIF) Kelsey Harshman (MIF) Aubrey Leach (MIF) Shannon Rhodes (OF)
6 Morgan Zerkle (OF) Haylie Wagner (P) Caleigh Clifton (MIF) Sis Bates (MIF)
7 Shannon Saile (P) Jazmyn Jackson (OF) Gwen Svekis (C)
Abby Ramirez (MIF)
8 Lilli Piper (CIF) Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (P) Megan Wiggins (OF) Andrea Filler (MIF)
9 Mia Davidson (C) Sydney Sherrill (CIF) DJ Sanders (CIF) Maggie Balint (P)
10 Odicci Alexander (P) Sara Groenewegen (P) Aleshia Ocasio (P) Nadia Taylor (CIF)
11 Aliyah Andrews (OF) Hayley Busby (CIF) Janae Jefferson (MIF) Danielle Watson (P)
12 Sierra Romero (MIF) Kiki Stokes-O'Connor (OF) Danielle Gibson (CIF) Aly Harrell (CIF)
13 Alysen Febrey (CIF) Jordan Roberts (C) Rachel Lewis (OF) Sashel Palacios (C)
14 Courtney Gano (CIF) Rylee Bayless (CIF) Greta Cecchetti (P) Nicole Rangel-Mendes (OF)
Mulipola, Dejah 1782 950 632 200
-1 Denham, Alyssa 1720 1140 400 180
-1 McCleney, Haylie 1650 1060 410 180
Jaquish, Sahvanna 1600 1020 480 100
Chidester, Amanda 1592 910 502 180
-3 Rhodes, Shannon 1564 860 524 180
-2 Fischer, Sam 1562 1160 282 120
Garcia, Rachel 1558 810 508 240
Lorenz, Amanda 1514 930 384 200
Vidales, Tori 1492 960 452 80
-3 O'Toole, Danielle 1490 1060 290 140
Leach, Aubrey 1450 1160 270 20
Sanders, DJ 1434 1200 214 20
Svekis, Gwen 1426 1100 286 40
-6 Piancastelli, Erika 1424 1060 304 60
0 Ocasio, Aleshia 1346 1040 266 40
Flippen, Hannah 1340 910 330 100
Gibson, Danielle 1336 1060 216 60
2 Clifton, Caleigh 1312 1000 212 100
4 Hayward, Victoria 1302 910 352 40
4 Davidson, Mia 1280 910 370 0
-3 Ramirez, Abby 1268 1080 128 60
-6 Harshman, Kelsey 1260 810 330 120
5 Romero, Sydney 1252 810 362 80
-5 Urtez, Anissa 1246 790 316 140
2 Eberle, Carrie 1204 890 154 160
-4 Rangel-Mendes, Nicole 1200 1200 0 0
-3 Balint, Maggie 1160 1020 40 100
-2 Taylor, Nadia 1152 1060 92 0
1 Nickles, Bubba 1144 670 334 140
3 Alexander, Odicci 1136 970 146 20
-3 St. George, Peyton 1126 920 126 80
Jefferson, Janae 1108 1000 108 0
Palacios, Sashel
940 142 20
Jackson, Jazmyn 1092 850 202 40
McQuillin, Taylor 1074 790 164 120
Filler, Andrea
860 190 20
Stokes-O'Connor, Kiki 1046 970 76 0
Zerkle, Morgan
Cecchetti, Greta
Harrell,
Sis
Wiggins,
Lilli
Watkins,
Lewis, Rachel
Mazon, Mariah
Edwards,
Saile,
Bayless, Rylee
Sherrill,
Watson,
730 316 0
1060 -16
24
144
130
96
96
190
254
68
16
198
-22
NAME WEEK ONE WEEK TWO WEEK
WEEK
WEEK
TOTAL POINTS
Dejah Mulipola 432 394 268 368 320 1,782
Alyssa Denham 274 232 312 498 404 1,720
Haylie McCleney 196 552 328 240 334 1,650
Sahvanna Jaquish 438 290 344 128 400 1,600
Amanda Chidester 220 508 314 322 228 1,592
Shannon Rhodes 268 278 268 346 404 1,564
Sam Fischer 250 328 338 258 388 1,562
Rachel Garcia 362 84 316 200 596 1,558
Amanda Lorenz 168 206 306 356 478 1,514
Tori Vidales 156 150 318 376 492 1,492
Danielle O'Toole 150 384 336 356 264 1,490
Aubrey Leach 150 358 270 282 390 1,450
DJ Sanders 248 240 320 258 368 1,434
Gwen Svekis 154 288 238 276 470 1,426
Erika Piancastelli 206 428 224 294 272 1,424
Aleshia Ocasio 330 284 168 244 320 1,346
Hannah Flippen 358 324 288 228 142 1,340
Danielle Gibson 138 220 340 238 400 1,336
Caleigh Clifton 220 90 206 430 366 1,312
Victoria Hayward 336 260 300 238 168 1,302
Mia Davidson 290 240 252 332 166 1,280
Abby Ramirez 130 290 310 270 268 1,268
Kelsey Harshman 366 116 366 336 76 1,260
Sydney Romero 260 130 314 318 230 1,252
Anissa Urtez 308 250 230 390 68 1,246
Carrie Eberle 452 238 198 202 114 1,204
Nicole Rangel-Mendes 220 280 210 250 240 1,200
Maggie Balint 120 258 250 216 316 1,160
Nadia Taylor 148 300 218 226 260 1,152
Bubba Nickles 350 358 256 70 110 1,144
Odicci Alexander 276 328 124 228 180 1,136
Peyton St. George 186 290 198 76 376 1,126
Janae Jefferson 130 268 180 210 320 1,108
Sashel Palacios 138 208 258 228 270 1,102
Jazmyn Jackson 280 316 168 228 100 1,092
Taylor McQuillin 256 46 196 418 158 1,074
Andrea Filler 248 298 156 90 278 1,070
Kiki Stokes-O’Connor 248 308 200 210 80 1,046
Morgan Zerkle 354 188 256 98 150 1,046
Greta Cecchetti 222 160 130 212 320 1,044
Aly Harrell 148 236 190 210 240 1,024
Sis Bates 120 330 226 68 280 1,024
Megan Wiggins 258 78 264 50 340 990
Lilli Piper 230 178 228 240 110 986
Sydney Littlejohn Watkins 164 320 228 214 60 986
Rachel Lewis 120 104 190 250 320 984
Mariah Mazon 166 192 218 270 114 960
Taylor Edwards 280 240 258 68 78 924
Shannon Saile 228 64 190 292 124 898
Rylee Bayless 240 160 198 218 50 866
Sydney Sherrill 160 160 190 280 70 860
Sierra Romero 158 186 274 50 180 848
Danielle Watson 184 0 190 210 254 838
Aliyah Andrews 160 80 210 270 100 820
Haylie Wagner 262 248 140 80 34 764
Alysen Febrey 266 198 138 50 110 762
Sara Groenewegen 180 220 220 62 64 746
Jordan Roberts 160 68 138 274 50 690
Courtney Gano 238 60 190 50 118 656 Hayley Busby 260 60 156 60 60 596
Captain: Aleshia Ocasio
Facilitator: Ellie Cooper
July 29 vs. Team Zerkle L, 4-2
July 30 vs. Team Eberle L, 1-0
July 31 vs. Team Chidester W, 5-3
Captain: Carrie Eberle
Facilitator: Tatum Edwards
Aug. 5 vs. Team Harshman W, 5-1 Aug. 6 vs. Team Mulipola L, 8-2 Aug. 7 vs. Team Jaquish L, 6-3
Captain: Dejah Mulipola Facilitator: Charlotte Morgan
Schedule/Results
Aug. 12 vs. Team Chidester L, 4-2 Aug. 13 vs. Team Jaquish W, 12-7 Aug. 14 vs. Team McCleney L, 9-6
Captain: Dejah Mulipola Facilitator: Jenn Salling
Schedule/Results
Aug. 19 vs. Team Chidester L, 4-2 Aug. 20 vs. Team Jaquish W, 3-1 Aug. 21 vs. Team McCleney W, 3-0
Captain: Dejah Mulipola
Schedule/Results
Captain: Amanda Chidester
Facilitator: Tatum Edwards
July 29 vs. Team Eberle L, 4-3
July 30 vs. Team Chidester W, 6-5
July 31 vs. Team Ocasio L, 5-3
Captain: Carrie Eberle
Facilitator: Charlotte Morgan
July 29 vs. Team Chidester W, 4-3
July 30 vs. Team Ocasio W, 1-0
July 31 vs. Team Zerkle L, 9-3
Captain: Sahvanna Jaquish
Facilitator: Charlotte Morgan
Aug. 5 vs. Team Mulipola L, 6-4 Aug. 6 vs. Team Harshman W, 9-8 Aug. 7 vs. Team Eberle W, 6-3
Captain: Dejah Mulipola
Facilitator: Jenn Salling
Aug. 5 vs. Team Jaquish W, 6-4 Aug. 6 vs. Team Eberle W, 8-2 Aug. 7 vs. Team Mulipola W, 13-8
Captain: Haylie McCleney Facilitator: Jenn Salling
Schedule/Results
Aug. 12 vs. Team Jaquish L, 7-2 Aug. 13 vs. Team Chidester W, 10-2 Aug. 14 vs. Team Mulipola W, 9-6
Captain: Sahvanna Jaquish Facilitator: Ellie Cooper
Schedule/Results
Aug. 12 vs. Team McCleney W, 7-2 Aug. 13 vs. Team Mulipola L, 12-7 Aug. 14 vs. Team Chidester W, 12-8
Captain: Haylie McCleney Facilitator: Ellie Cooper
Schedule/Results
Aug. 19 vs. Team Jaquish W, 3-2 Aug. 20 vs. Team Chidester W, 20-5 Aug. 21 vs. Team Mulipola L, 3-0
Captain: Sahvanna Jaquish Facilitator: Tatum Edwards
Schedule/Results
Aug. 19 vs. Team McCleney L, 3-2 Aug. 20 vs. Team Mulipola L, 3-1 Aug. 21 vs. Team Chidester L, 1-0
Captain: Amanda Chidester
Schedule/Results
Aug.
Captain: Alyssa Denham
Schedule/Results
Aug.
Chidester
Captain: Morgan Zerkle
Facilitator: Jenn Salling
July 29 vs. Team Ocasio W, 4-2
July 30 vs. Team Chidester L, 6-5
July 31 vs. Team Eberle W, 9-3
Captain: Kelsey Harshman
Facilitator: Ellie Cooper
Aug. 5 vs. Team Eberle L, 5-1 Aug. 6 vs. Team Jaquish L, 9-8 Aug. 7 vs. Team Mulipola L, 13-8
Captain: Amanda Chidester Facilitator: Tatum Edwards
Schedule/Results
Aug. 12 vs. Team Mulipola W, 4-2 Aug. 13 vs. Team McCleney L, 10-2 Aug. 14 vs. Team Jaquish L, 12-8
Captain: Amanda Chidester Facilitator: Charlotte Morgan
Schedule/Results
Aug. 19 vs. Team Mulipola W, 4-2 Aug. 20 vs. Team McCleney L, 20-5 Aug. 21 vs. Team Jaquish W, 1-0
Captain: Haylie McCleney
Schedule/Results
Aug.
DATE GM # GAME
July
July
July
July
July
BROADCAST
TIME/SCORE MVP 1 (60 PTS) MVP 2 (40 PTS) MVP 3 (20 PTS)
Team Eberle vs. Team Chidester ESPN2 Eberle, 4-3
Team Ocasio vs. Team Zerkle ESPN+ Zerkle, 4-2
Carrie Eberle Hannah Flippen Victoria Hayward
Rachel Garcia Dejah Mulipola Taylor McQuillin
Team Zerkle vs. Team Chidester ESPN+ Chidester, 6-5 Bubba Nickles Anissa Urtez Danielle Watson
Team Eberle vs. Team Ocasio ESPN+ Eberle, 1-0 Kelsey Harshman Carrie Eberle Odicci Alexander
Team Zerkle vs. Team Eberle ESPN2 Zerkle, 9-3 Sahvanna Jaquish Dejah Mulipola Alyssa Denham
Team Chidester vs. Team Ocasio ESPN2 Ocasio, 5-3
Shannon Rhodes Aleshia Ocasio Bubba Nickles
Team Mulipola vs. Team Jaquish ESPNU Mulipola, 6-4 Amanda Chidester Haylie McCleney Aubrey Leach
Team Eberle vs. Team Harshman ESPNU Eberle, 5-1 Carrie Eberle Anissa Urtez Victoria Hayward Aug. 6 9 Team Harshman vs. Team Jaquish ESPN+ Jaquish, 9-8 Bubba Nickles Taylor Edwards Andrea Filler Aug. 6 10 Team Mulipola vs. Team Eberle ESPN2 Mulipola, 8-2 Haylie McCleney Danielle O'Toole Amanda Chidester Aug. 7 11 Team Harshman vs. Team Mulipola ESPN+ Mulipola, 13-8 Erika Piancastelli Taylor Edwards Dejah Mulipola Aug. 7 12 Team Jaquish vs. Team Eberle ESPN+ Jaquish, 6-3 Amanda Lorenz Jazmyn Jackson Shannon Rhodes Aug. 12 13 Team Jaquish vs. Team McCleney ESPN+ Jaquish, 7-2
Danielle O'Toole Sahvanna Jaquish DJ Sanders Aug. 12 14 Team Mulipola vs. Team Chidester ESPNU Chidester, 4-2 Sam Fischer Alyssa Denham Aliyah Andrews Aug. 13 15 Team Chidester vs. Team McCleney ESPNU McCleney, 10-2 Maggie Balint Rachel Garcia Amanda Lorenz Aug. 13 16 Team Jaquish vs. Team Mulipola ESPNU Mulipola, 12-7 Hannah Flippen Lilli Piper Kelsey Harshman Aug. 14 17 Team Chidester vs. Team Jaquish ESPN+ Jaquish, 12-8 Abby Ramirez Amanda Chidester Sashel Palacios Aug. 14 18 Team McCleney vs. Team Mulipola ESPN+ McCleney, 9-6
Danielle Gibson Haylie McCleney Shannon Rhodes
Aug. 19 19 Team Jaquish vs. Team McCleney ESPN+ McCleney, 3-2 Caleigh Clifton Danielle O'Toole Shannon Rhodes Aug. 19 20 Team Mulipola vs. Team Chidester ESPN+ Chidester, 4-2 Anissa Urtez Alyssa Denham Tori Vidales Aug. 20 21 Team Chidester vs. Team McCleney ESPN2 McCleney, 20-5 Amanda Lorenz Caleigh Clifton Mariah Mazon Aug. 20 22 Team Jaquish vs. Team Mulipola ESPN2 Mulipola, 3-1 Sydney Romero Taylor McQuillin Lilli Piper Aug. 21 23 Team Chidester vs. Team Jaquish ESPN2 Chidester, 1-0 Alyssa Denham Kelsey Harshman Rachel Garcia Aug. 21 24 Team McCleney vs. Team Mulipola ESPN2 Mulipola, 3-0 Taylor McQuillin Dejah Mulipola Shannon Saile Aug. 26 25 Team Denham vs. Team Chidester ESPN+ Denham, 10-4 Tori Vidales Amanda Lorenz Amanda Chidester Aug. 26 26 Team Mulipola vs. Team McCleney ESPN+ McCleney, 5-4 Shannon Rhodes Sam Fischer Peyton St. George Aug. 27 27 Team McCleney vs. Team Chidester ESPNU McCleney, 2-1 Peyton St. George Maggie Balint Sam Fischer Aug. 27 28 Team Denham vs. Team Mulipola ESPNU Denham, 4-0 Rachel Garcia Gwen Svekis Amanda Lorenz Aug. 28 29 Team McCleney vs. Team Denham ESPN+ Denham, 6-3 Rachel Garcia Haylie McCleney Alyssa Denham Aug. 28 30 Team Chidester vs. Team Mulipola ESPNU Mulipola, 10-6 Dejah Mulipola Amanda Chidester Sydney Romero
DATE GM # GAME
LOSING PITCHER SAVE TIME OF GAME July 29 1 Team Eberle vs. Team Chidester Carrie Eberle (1-0) Mariah Mazon (0-1) 2:18 July 29 2 Team Ocasio vs. Team Zerkle Rachel Garcia (1-0) Aleshia Ocasio (0-1) Taylor McQullin (1) 1:58 July
3 Team Zerkle vs. Team Chidester Mariah Mazon (1-1) Taylor McQuillin (0-1) Danielle Watson (1) 2:20 July
4 Team Eberle vs. Team Ocasio Haylie Wagner (1-0) Danielle O'Toole (0-1) Carrie Eberle (1) 2:00 July
5 Team Zerkle vs. Team Eberle Alyssa Denham (1-0) Greta Cecchetti (0-1) Rachel Garcia (1) 2:33 July
Team Chidester vs. Team Ocasio Aleshia Ocasio (1-1) Mariah Mazon (1-2) 2:10 Aug.
7 Team Mulipola vs. Team Jaquish Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (1-0) Aleshia Ocasio (1-2) Odicci Alexander (1) 2:19 Aug.
Team Eberle vs. Team Harshman Carrie Eberle (2-0) Rachel Garcia (1-1) 2:08 Aug.
Team Harshman vs. Team Jaquish Maggie Balint (1-0) Danielle Watson (0-1) 2:30 Aug.
Team Mulipola vs. Team Eberle Danielle O'Toole (1-1) Mariah Mazon (1-3) 2:24 Aug.
Team Harshman vs. Team Mulipola Sydney Littlejohn Watkins (2-0) Danielle Watson (0-2) 2:45 Aug.
Team Jaquish vs. Team Eberle Aleshia Ocasio (2-1) Carrie Eberle (2-1) 2:20
Team Jaquish vs. Team McCleney Danielle O'Toole (2-1) Taylor McQuillin (0-2) 2:28
Team Mulipola vs. Team Chidester Alyssa Denham (2-0) Carrie Eberle (2-2) 1:42
Team Chidester vs. Team McCleney Rachel Garcia (2-1) Haylie Wagner (1-1) 2:11 Aug.
16 Team Jaquish vs. Team Mulipola Carrie Eberle (3-2) Shannon Saile (0-1) 2:39 Aug.
17 Team Chidester vs. Team Jaquish Peyton St. George (1-0) Maggie Balint (0-1) 2:49 Aug.
18 Team McCleney vs. Team Mulipola Taylor McQuillin (1-2) Carrie Eberle (3-3) Mariah Mazon (1) 2:45 Aug.
19 Team Jaquish vs. Team McCleney Danielle O'Toole (3-1) Peyton St. George (1-1) 2:18 Aug.
Aug.
20 Team Mulipola vs. Team Chidester Alyssa Denham (3-0) Odicci Alexander (0-1) 1:48
21 Team Chidester vs. Team McCleney Mariah Mazon (2-3) Carrie Eberle (3-4) 2:39
22 Team Jaquish vs. Team Mulipola Taylor McQuillin (2-2) Peyton St. George (1-2) Odicci Alexander (2) 2:20 Aug. 21 23 Team Chidester vs. Team Jaquish Alyssa Denham (4-0) Rachel Garcia (2-2) 2:02 Aug. 21 24 Team McCleney vs. Team Mulipola Taylor McQuillin (3-2) Danielle O'Toole (3-2) 1:46 Aug. 26 25 Team Denham vs. Team Chidester Alyssa Denham (5-0) Mariah Mazon (2-4) Rachel Garcia (2) 2:21 Aug. 26 26 Team Mulipola vs. Team McCleney Peyton St. George (2-2) Taylor McQuillin (3-3) 2:00 Aug. 27 27 Team McCleney vs. Team Chidester Maggie Balint (2-1) Mariah Mazon (2-5) Peyton St. George (1) 1:59 Aug. 27 28 Team Denham vs. Team Mulipola Rachel Garcia (3-2) Carrie Eberle (3-5) 2:29 Aug. 28 29
Aug.
Team McCleney vs. Team Denham Alyssa Denham (6-0) Danielle O’Toole (3-3) Rachel Garcia (3) 2:18 Aug. 28 30 Team Chidester vs. Team Mulipola Taylor McQuillin (4-3) Haylie Wagner (1-2) 2:14
Rylee Bayless
Hayley Busby
Amanda Chidester 1,592
Caleigh Clifton 1,312
Mia Davidson 1,280
0.289
0.333
0.222 0.276 0.259
0.383 0.482 0.915
0.171 0.256 0.486
0.278 0.490 0.694
Taylor Edwards 924 15 15 0.277 0.320 0.468 47
Alysen Febrey 762 12 7 0.158 0.304 0.211 19
Andrea Filler 1,070 15 13 0.256 0.333 0.359 39
Sam Fischer 1,562 15 15 0.277 0.327 0.511 47
Hannah Flippen 1,340 15 15 0.306 0.424 0.510 49
Courtney Gano 656 9 7 0.077 0.200 0.077
Rachel Garcia 1,558 14 12 0.107 0.194 0.107 28
Danielle Gibson 1,336 14 12 0.278 0.316 0.556 36
Aly Harrell 1,024 10 4 0.000 0.188 0.000 13 0 0
Kelsey Harshman 1,260 15 15 0.333 0.455 0.556 45 9 15
Victoria Hayward 1,302 15 15 0.321 0.367 0.482 56 12 18
Jazmyn Jackson 1,092 15 15 0.234 0.294 0.298 47 8 11 3
3
0 0
0
25 0 0 0 0
3 27 0
14 14 0 1 2 2
Sahvanna Jaquish 1,600 15 15 0.409 0.559 0.818 44 14 18 4 1 4 14 12 3 7 36 0 0 1 2 Janae Jefferson 1,108 11 10 0.233 0.250 0.267 30 2 7 1 0 0 4 1 0 2 8 1 0 1 1
Aubrey Leach 1,450 15 12 0.383 0.442 0.383 47 14 18 0 0 0 4 4 1 8 18 0 2 4 5
Rachel Lewis 984 8 4 0.333 0.556 0.333 6 5 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 2 0 0 0 0
Amanda Lorenz 1,514 13 13 0.300 0.472 0.700 40 11 12 3 2 3 14 13 0 7 28 0 0 0 0
Haylie McCleney 1,650 15 15 0.370 0.469 0.593 54 12 20 6 0 2 7 10 0 8 32 0 1 0 0
Dejah Mulipola 1,782 15 15 0.432 0.569 1.182 44 13 19 2 2 9 19 11 3 10 52 0 0 0 0
Bubba Nickles 1,144 15 15 0.333 0.370 0.588 51 9 17 1 0 4 14 3 0 6 30 0 1 0 0
Aleshia Ocasio 1,346 12 8 0.353 0.421 0.588 17 4 6 1 0 1 1 2 0 5 10 0 1 0 0
Sashel Palacios 1,102 15 12 0.281 0.361 0.313 32 1 9 1 0 0 3 4 0 9 10 0 1 0 0
Erika Piancastelli 1,424 15 15 0.282 0.462 0.513 39 10 11 0 0 3 10 13 0 7 20 0 0 0 0
Lilli Piper 986 15 13 0.179 0.220 0.205 39 2 7 1 0 0 3 2 0 6 8 0 0 0 0
Abby Ramirez 1,268 15 11 0.222 0.243 0.306 36 3 8 1 1 0 4 1 0 8 11 0 1 0 0 Nicole Rangel-Mendes 1,200 8 1 0.000 0.000 0.000 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 Shannon Rhodes 1,564 15 15 0.375 0.464 0.958 48 15 18 4 0 8 14 7 1 9 46 0 0 0 0 Jordan Roberts 690 14 7 0.091 0.259 0.091 22 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 2 8 2 0 0 0 0 Sierra Romero 848 15 15 0.238 0.333 0.357 42 5 10 2 0 1 3 6 0 10 15 0 0 0 0
Sydney Romero 1,252 15 15 0.412 0.455 0.608 51 14 21 8 1 0 9 3 1 5 31 0 1 1 1
DJ Sanders 1,434 15 10 0.282 0.333 0.487 39 6 11 2 0 2 7 2 1 6 19 0 0 0 0 Sydney Sherrill 860 11 10 0.269 0.269 0.269 26
Kiki Stokes-O’Connor 1,046 12 10 0.148 0.207 0.222 27
Gwen Svekis 1,426 15 15 0.279 0.380 0.535 43
Nadia Taylor 1,152 14 9 0.143 0.242 0.179 28
Anissa Urtez 1,246 15 15 0.280 0.302 0.560 50
Tori Vidales 1,492 15 15 0.400 0.500 0.844 45
Megan Wiggins 990 14 14 0.175 0.267 0.250 40
Morgan Zerkle 1,046 15 15 0.319 0.400 0.489 47
Mia
Sam
8 0.000 3 20 0.150 0 0 0.000 1 4 0.250 Danielle Gibson 0 5 0.000 10 31 0.323 5 9 0.556 5 27 0.185 1 2 0.500 1 7 0.143
Aly Harrell 0 2 0.000 0 11 0.000 0 2 0.000 0 11 0.000 0 0 0.000 1 2 0.500
Kelsey Harshman 5 8 0.625 10 37 0.270 9 16 0.563 6 29 0.207 2 3 0.667 6 16 0.375 Victoria Hayward 4 6 0.667 14 50 0.280 7 9 0.778 11 47 0.234 1 1 1.000 9 25 0.360
Jazmyn Jackson 1 5 0.200 10 42 0.238 10 13 0.769 1 34 0.029 3 3 1.000 2 14 0.143
Sahvanna Jaquish 4 5 0.800 14 39 0.359 11 19 0.579 7 25 0.280 1 3 0.333 6 12 0.500
Janae Jefferson 0 2 0.000 7 28 0.250 4 13 0.308 3 17 0.176 0 3 0.000 1 5 0.200
Aubrey Leach 4 9 0.444 14 38 0.368 9 14 0.643 9 33 0.273 0 0 0.000 5 9 0.556
Rachel Lewis 0 0 0.000 2 6 0.333 1 1 1.000 1 5 0.200 0 0 0.000 2 3 0.667
Amanda Lorenz 2 5 0.400 10 35 0.286 8 17 0.471 4 23 0.174 1 1 1.000 12 19 0.632
Haylie McCleney 2 10 0.200 18 44 0.409 6 12 0.500 14 42 0.333 0 1 0.000 13 24 0.542
Dejah Mulipola 2 4 0.500 17 40 0.425 9 15 0.600 10 29 0.345 1 1 1.000 3 3 1.000
Bubba Nickles 2 9 0.222 15 42 0.357 13 20 0.650 4 31 0.129 1 2 0.500 3 10 0.300
Aleshia Ocasio 0 2 0.000 6 15 0.400 2 6 0.333 4 11 0.364 0 2 0.000 2 3 0.667
Sashel Palacios 4 8 0.500 5 24 0.208 3 6 0.500 6 26 0.231 0 2 0.000 3 8 0.375
Erika Piancastelli 2 10 0.200 9 29 0.310 6 12 0.500 5 27 0.185 1 1 1.000 6 8 0.750
Lilli Piper 0 2 0.000 7 37 0.189 4 10 0.400 3 29 0.103 1 1 1.000 2 6 0.333
Abby Ramirez 0 4 0.000 8 32 0.250 5 10 0.500 3 26 0.115 0 1 0.000 1 10 0.100 Nicole Rangel-Mendes 0 1 0.000 0 4 0.000 0 1 0.000 0 4 0.000 0 0 0.000 0 2 0.000 Shannon Rhodes 6 9 0.667 12 39 0.308 7 15 0.467 11 33 0.333 0 0 0.000 6 12 0.500 Jordan Roberts 1 5 0.200 1 17 0.059 0 4 0.000 2 18 0.111 0 1 0.000 3 6 0.500 Sierra Romero 0 7 0.000 10 35 0.286 3 8 0.375 7 34 0.206 0 0 0.000 3 12 0.250 Sydney Romero
15 0.600 12 36 0.333 0 0 0.000 6 10 0.600 DJ Sanders
4 0.250 20 47 0.426
0.400 9 34 0.265
0.429
25 0.200 1 4 0.250 2 9 0.222 Sydney Sherrill
0.333 5 20 0.250
0.833 2 20 0.100 0 0 0.000 0 5 0.000 Kiki Stokes-O’Connor
0.143 3 20 0.150
Harrell
Kelsey Harshman
Victoria Hayward
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.000
0.800
0.231
0.000
0.500
0.316
0.818
0.500
0.789
0.900
2 12 0.167 14 16 0.875 2 2 Sahvanna Jaquish 0 0 0.000 4 10 0.400 4 4 1.000 4 13 0.308 19 24 0.792 4 2
Jazmyn Jackson
Janae Jefferson 0 0 0.000 3 9 0.333 1 3 0.333 3 12 0.250 6 15 0.400 2 1 Aubrey Leach 1 4 0.250 2 3 0.667 1 1 1.000 5 13 0.385 15 18 0.833 3 2
Rachel Lewis 0 0 0.000 0 0 0.000 0 0 0.000 0 2 0.000 1 1 1.000 0 0 Amanda Lorenz 0 0 0.000 5 11 0.455 2 2 1.000 6 15 0.400 15 19 0.789 7 5 Haylie McCleney 0 0 0.000 3 7 0.429 1 2 0.500 7 19 0.368 12 15 0.800 2 1 Dejah Mulipola 0 0 0.000 5 7 0.714 3 4 0.750 6 15 0.400 12 20 0.600 6 0
Bubba Nickles 0 0 0.000 10 14 0.714 1 3 0.333 7 15 0.467 18 22 0.818 8 4 Aleshia Ocasio 0 0 0.000 1 5 0.200 0 0 0.000 0 6 0.000 4 8 0.500 0 2 Sashel Palacios 0 1 0.000 1 4 0.250 1 1 1.000 1 10 0.100 6 8 0.750 1 2 Erika Piancastelli 0 0 0.000 5 9 0.556 2 2 1.000 4 11 0.364 14 18 0.778 6 3
Lilli Piper 1 3 0.333 4 4 1.000 1 1 1.000 3 13 0.231 6 10 0.600 2 1 Abby Ramirez
0.500 0 0 0.000 4 10 0.400 9 11 0.818 4 1 Nicole Rangel-Mendes
1.000
0 0.000 0 0 0.000
0 0.000 0 2 0.000 0 1 0.000 0 0 Shannon Rhodes
1.000
0.714
0.000
15 0.333 11 15 0.733 4 4 Jordan Roberts
0.000
1.000 0
0.000
0.000
23 142 0.162 19 51 0.373 8 55 0.145
Sara Groenewegen 3 5 0.600 23 79 0.291 10 18 0.556 16 66 0.242 7 21 0.333 13 33 0.394
Sydney Littlejohn Watkins 0 2 0.000 24 76 0.316 14 31 0.452 10 47 0.213 6 18 0.333 4 21 0.190
Mariah Mazon 4 9 0.444 27 111 0.243 21 37 0.568 10 83 0.120 15 31 0.484 10 41 0.244
Taylor McQuillin 3 11 0.273 37 134 0.276 21 30 0.700 19 115 0.165 12 34 0.353 12 47 0.255
Aleshia Ocasio 2 10 0.200 27 88 0.307 14 30 0.467 15 68 0.221 12 24 0.500 7 30 0.233
Danielle O'Toole 1 16 0.063 54 173 0.312 22 51 0.431 33 138 0.239 17 45 0.378 25 68 0.368
Shannon Saile 0 8 0.000 24 70 0.343 16 23 0.696 8 55 0.145 7 19 0.368 9 26 0.346
Peyton St. George 0 6 0.000 33 103 0.320 17 42 0.405 16 67 0.239 11 26 0.423 6 31 0.194
Haylie Wagner 5 11 0.455 28 83 0.337 12 26 0.462 21 68 0.309 4 21 0.190 14 33 0.424
Danielle Watson 1 2 0.500 15 34 0.441 12 15 0.800 4 21 0.190 2 6 0.333 2 8 0.250
Harshman
Zerkle
Rangel-Mendes
Stokes-O’Connor
Ocasio
Alyssa Denham
Danielle O'Toole
Danielle Watson
Haylie Wagner
Maggie Balint
1,346
1,720
1,490
838
764
1,160
Mariah Mazon P 960
1.000
1.000
1.000
23.1
43.1
8.0
20.1
16.2
30.0
Odicci Alexander P 1,136
1.000
0 0 20.0 5 Rachel Garcia P 1,558
1.000
0 52.0
Shannon Saile P 898
1.000 0
19.0 3 Carrie Eberle P 1,204
0.909
0 32.0
Taylor McQuillin P 1,074
0.889
35.1 9 Sydney Littlejohn Watkins P 986 7 0 4 1 0.800 0 0 0 18.0 5 Sara Groenewegen P 746 8 1 6 2 0.778 0 0 0 19.2 9
Peyton St. George P 1,126 11 0 2 1 0.667 0 1 0 26.1 3 Greta Cecchetti P 1,044 2 0 0 0 0.000 0 0 0 2.0 0
LPTS
Bubba Nickles RF 1,144 4 6
Danielle Gibson RF 1,336
Erika Piancastelli RF 1,424
Hayley Busby RF 596
Janae Jefferson RF 1,108 2
Jazmyn Jackson RF 1,092
Kelsey Harshman RF 1,260
Davidson
Rachel Lewis
Tori Vidales
Victoria Hayward
Shannon
Ocasio
1.000
1.000
1.000
1.000
1.000
1.000
1,280
1,492
1,302
1,564
1,346
27.0
21.0
62.0
44.0
6.0
21.0
Anissa Urtez July 29 Team Eberle Haylie Wagner
Amanda Chidester July 29 Team Eberle Haylie Wagner
Erika Piancastelli July 29 Team Eberle Haylie Wagner
Aleshia Ocasio July 29 Team Zerkle Rachel Garcia
Dejah Mulipola July 29 Team Ocasio Danielle O'Toole
Anissa Urtez July 30 Team Zerkle Taylor McQuillin
Amanda Chidester July 30 Team Zerkle Taylor McQuillin
Bubba Nickles July 30 Team Zerkle Alyssa Denham
Sahvanna Jaquish July 31 Team Eberle Haylie Wagner
Morgan Zerkle July 31 Team Eberle Greta Cecchetti
Sahvanna Jaquish July 31 Team Eberle Greta Cecchetti
Dejah Mulipola July 31 Team Eberle Odicci Alexander
Shannon Rhodes July 31 Team Chidester Danielle Watson
Bubba Nickles July 31 Team Ocasio Sara Groenewegen
Haylie McCleney Aug. 5 Team Jaquish Aleshia Ocasio
Bubba Nickles Aug. 5 Team Mulipola Peyton St. George
Amanda Chidester Aug. 5 Team Jaquish Aleshia Ocasio
Gwen Svekis Aug. 5 Team Mulipola Peyton St. George 0 4 0 1-2 * CF Hannah Flippen Aug. 5 Team Mulipola Odicci Alexander 0 7 1 1-0 LF Anissa Urtez Aug. 5 Team Harshman Rachel Garcia 1 1 1 2-0 CF Taylor Edwards Aug. 6 Team Jaquish Haylie Wagner 2 4 2 1-0 LCF Haylie McCleney Aug. 6 Team Eberle Mariah Mazon 2 2 1 0-0 RF Mia Davidson Aug. 6 Team Mulipola Danielle O'Toole 0 2 1 0-0 LF Amanda Chidester Aug. 6 Team Eberle Carrie Eberle 0 6 0 3-2 * RCF Taylor Edwards Aug. 7 Team Mulipola Odicci Alexander 1 3 2 3-2 CF Erika Piancastelli Aug. 7 Team Harshman Shannon Saile 3 5 2 1-1 LCF Grand Slam Tori Vidales Aug. 7 Team Mulipola Peyton St. George 1 7 1 1-1 LCF
Mia Davidson Aug. 7 Team Jaquish Maggie Balint 1 2 2 2-2 LF Shannon Rhodes Aug. 7 Team Jaquish Haylie Wagner 0 7 2 1-2 CF DJ Sanders Aug. 12 Team McCleney Mariah Mazon 1 4 0 0-1 CF Sahvanna Jaquish Aug. 12 Team McCleney Taylor McQuillin 2 7 1 2-1 LF Dejah Mulipola Aug. 12 Team Chidester Sara Groenewegen 0 1 2 3-2 LF
Sam Fischer Aug. 12 Team Mulipola Aleshia Ocasio 0 2 0 1-0 * CF
Sam Fischer Aug. 12 Team Mulipola Carrie Eberle 1 6 2 3-1 RCF Morgan Zerkle Aug. 13 Team McCleney Rachel Garcia 0 1 0 1-0 * RCF Amanda Lorenz Aug. 13 Team Chidester Haylie Wagner 2 1 0 0-0 LCF Victoria Hayward Aug. 13 Team Chidester Sara Groenewegen 1 3 2 3-2 RF Kelsey Harshman Aug. 13 Team Mulipola Odicci Alexander 1 4 1 0-0 LF Back-to-Back Tori Vidales Aug. 13 Team Mulipola Odicci Alexander 0 4 1 0-0 LCF Back-to-Back Hannah Flippen Aug. 13 Team Jaquish Peyton St. George
Dejah Mulipola Aug. 13 Team Jaquish Sydney Littlejohn Watkins
Amanda Chidester Aug. 14 Team Jaquish Danielle O'Toole
Dejah Mulipola Aug. 14 Team McCleney Rachel Garcia
Back-to-Back Shannon Rhodes Aug. 14 Team McCleney Rachel Garcia
Back-to-Back Danielle Gibson Aug. 14 Team Mulipola Odicci Alexander
Shannon Rhodes Aug. 14 Team McCleney Rachel Garcia
Sahvanna Jaquish Aug. 19 Team McCleney Danielle O'Toole
Shannon Rhodes Aug. 19 Team Jaquish Haylie Wagner
Caleigh Clifton Aug. 19 Team Jaquish Peyton St. George
Erika Piancastelli Aug. 19 Team Chidester Alyssa Denham
Tori Vidales Aug. 19 Team Mulipola Odicci Alexander
Anissa Urtez Aug. 19 Team Mulipola Greta Cecchetti
Dejah Mulipola Aug. 19 Team Chidester Alyssa Denham
Mia Davidson Aug. 20 Team Chidester Carrie Eberle
Amanda Lorenz Aug. 20 Team Chidester Carrie Eberle
Caleigh Clifton Aug. 20 Team Chidester Aleshia Ocasio
Chidester Aleshia Ocasio
McCleney Sydney Littlejohn
Mulipola
Lorenz
Svekis
Chidester
Vidales
McCleney Danielle O'Toole
Chidester Mariah Mazon
Chidester Mariah Mazon
Chidester Mariah Mazon
Denham Alyssa Denham
Chidester Sydney Littlejohn
Mulipola Shannon Saile
PLAYER
Shannon Rhodes Aug. 26 Team Mulipola Taylor McQuillin
Dejah Mulipola Aug. 26 Team McCleney Danielle O'Toole
Shannon Rhodes Aug. 26 Team Mulipola Taylor McQuillin
Gwen Svekis Aug. 27 Team Mulipola Carrie Eberle
DJ Sanders Aug. 28 Team McCleney Danielle O'Toole
Danielle Gibson Aug. 28 Team McCleney Danielle O'Toole
Mia Davidson Aug. 28 Team Chidester Haylie Wagner
Back-to-Back Sierra Romero Aug. 28 Team Chidester Haylie Wagner
Back-to-Back Bubba Nickles Aug. 28 Team Mulipola Taylor McQuillin
Dejah Mulipola Aug. 28 Team Chidester Sara Groenewegen
Back-to-Back Victoria Hayward Aug. 28 Team Chidester Sara Groenewegen
Back-to-Back Amanda Chidester Aug. 28 Team Mulipola Taylor McQuillin
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
V Hayward cf 3 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 2
J Jackson rf 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
H Flippen ss 4 1 2 1 0 0 4 3 0
M Davidson dp 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
R Bayless pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Fischer 3b 4 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0
K Harshman 2b 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 4
T Edwards c 1 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 0
D Sanders ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Febrey 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 9 0 2
K Stokes-O'C lf 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
H Wagner p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
C Eberle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Totals 26 4 6 3 4 6 21 10 8
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 2
Si Romero 2b 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
A Chidester 1b 4 1 1 1 0 1 10 0 0
E Piancastel c 2 1 1 1 1 0 5 0 1 A Urtez ss 3 1 1 1 0 1 1 3 2
B Nickles rf 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0
A Harrell dp 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
J Roberts ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Sherrill 3b 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0
A Leach ph 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
A Andrews lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
P St. George p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 M Mazon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
3 8 3 3 5 21 8 6
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Team Eberle 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 0 Team Chidester 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 8 1
E - E Piancastel. DP - Eberle 2. LOB - Eberle 8; Chidester 6. 2B - J Jackson; H McCleney. HR - A Chidester; E Piancastel; A Urtez. HBP - M Davidson. SH - J Jackson; T Edwards. SB - V Hayward; H Flippen.
Team Eberle
H Wagner
C Eberle
0 0
Chidester
Win - C Eberle (1-0). Loss - M Mazon (0-1). Save - None. WP - P St. George. HBP - by M Mazon (M Davidson). PB - E Piancastel. Inherited runners/scored: M Mazon 2/0. Pitches/strikes: H Wagner 61/38; C Eberle 72/43; P St. George 95/54; M Mazon 42/28.
Umpires - HP: Scott Mair 1B: Craig Hyde 3B: Jim Cooper Start: 6:00 pm Time: 2:18 Attendance:
Player
r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Lorenz lf 2 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0
J Jefferson 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
T Vidales 1b 2 0 1 0 1 0 6 0 0
A Ramirez pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
N Taylor 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
G Svekis c 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
S Palacios c 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
D Gibson dp 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Rhodes cf 3 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 2
A Ocasio p 3 1 1 1 0 2 1 2 0
S Bates ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
R Lewis rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D O'Toole p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Groenewege p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 23 2 3 1 3 7 18 5 5
Player
r h rbi bb so po a lob
M Wiggins lf 4 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0
M Zerkle cf 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0
Sy Romero ss 3 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 3
S Jaquish 3b 3 0 2 0 0 0 3 3 0
D Mulipola c 3 1 2 2 0 0 7 0 0
R Garcia p 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Filler 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3
C Gano 1b 2 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 0 C Clifton ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
H Busby rf 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
L Piper ph 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 4 8 4 2 5 21 7 6
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Team Ocasio 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 1 Team Zerkle 2 0 0 1 1 0 X 4 8 0
E - N Taylor. DP - Zerkle 1. LOB - Ocasio 5; Zerkle 6. 2B - S Rhodes; M Wiggins; M Zerkle; Sy Romero; S Jaquish. HR - A Ocasio; D Mulipola. HBP
G Svekis;
Ocasio
Ocasio
O'Toole
S Groenewege
Win - R Garcia (1-0). Loss - A Ocasio (0-1). Save - T McQuillin (1). WP - T McQuillin. HBP - by T McQuillin (G Svekis); by T McQuillin (D Gibson). Inherited runners/scored: T McQuillin 1/1. Pitches/strikes: A Ocasio 57/38; D O'Toole 40/25; S Groenewege 11/8; R Garcia 81/47; T McQuillin 42/22.
Umpires - HP: Craig Hyde 1B: Jim Cooper 3B: Scott
Start: 8:30 pm Time: 1:58
Playerabrhrbibbsopoalob
Playerabrhrbibbsopoalob
E-SyRomero;SJaquish;SSherrill;SLittlejohn.DP-Chidester1.LOB-Zerkle8;Chidester6.2B-B Nickles.HR-AChidester;AUrtez;BNickles.HBP-DMulipola;AUrtez.SF-MZerkle.SB-MZerkle;A Andrews.
TeamZerkleiphrerbbsoabbfnp
Win-MMazon(1-1).Loss-TMcQuillin(0-1).Save-DWatson(1). WP-TMcQuillin.HBP-bySLittlejohn(DMulipola);byADenham(AUrtez).Inheritedrunners/scored:SSaile2/2; ADenham2/0;MMazon2/0;DWatson3/2.Pitches/strikes:TMcQuillin70/42;SSaile14/11;ADenham47/31;S Littlejohn65/37;MMazon33/16;DWatson30/17.
Umpires-HP:JimCooper1B:ScottMair3B:CraigHyde Start:5:30pmTime:2:20Attendance: TMcQuillinfaced3battersinthe4th. MMazonfaced3battersinthe6th.
Playerabrhrbibbsopoalob
TeamOcasio0(0-2)
Playerabrhrbibbsopoalob
DP-Eberle2.LOB-Eberle7;Ocasio6.2B-VHayward;KHarshman.SH-AOcasio;SPalacios.
TeamEberleiphrerbbsoabbfnp OAlexander3.02002191258
TeamOcasioiphrerbbsoabbfnp DO'Toole3.031114131463 AOcasio4.030007151557
Win-HWagner(1-0).Loss-DO'Toole(0-1).Save-CEberle(1). Inheritedrunners/scored:GCecchetti1/0.Pitches/strikes:OAlexander58/35;GCecchetti20/8;HWagner6/5;C Eberle40/20;DO'Toole63/41;AOcasio57/43.
Umpires-HP:ScottMair1B:CraigHyde3B:JimCooper Start:8:24pmTime:2:00Attendance:
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
M Wiggins lf 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1
N Rangel-Men lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
M Zerkle cf 3 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0
Sy Romero ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 0
S Jaquish 3b 3 3 3 5 1 0 3 1 0
D Mulipola c 3 1 2 2 0 0 6 0 0
R Garcia dp 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1
L Piper rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
H Busby rf 3 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 0
C Gano 1b 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0
C Clifton ph 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
A Filler 2b 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1
T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Denham p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 32 9 12 9 2 9 21 4 5
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
V Hayward cf 4 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 4
J Jackson rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
H Flippen ss 3 1 3 2 0 0 3 1 0
M Davidson dp 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 S Fischer 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3
K Harshman 2b 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0
T Edwards c 4 0 1 0 0 1 10 0 0
R Bayless pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Febrey 1b 2 0 1 0 1 1 5 0 3
K Stokes-O'C lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 D Sanders dp 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 H Wagner p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 G Cecchetti p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O Alexander p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 C Eberle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 8 3 5 4 21 4 13
7 R H E Team Zerkle 2 0 4 3 0 0 0 9 12 0 Team Eberle 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 0
Score by Innings 1 2 3
- Eberle 1. LOB - Zerkle 5; Eberle 13. 2B - H Busby; T Edwards. 3B - S Jaquish. HR - M Zerkle; S Jaquish 2; D Mulipola. HBP - D Mulipola; H Flippen; M Davidson; A Febrey. SB - V Hayward.
Team Zerkle ip h r er bb so ab bf np T McQuillin 1.0 4 2 2 1 2 7 8 38 A Denham 3.0 2 1 1 2 1 11 15 58 R Garcia 3.0 2
Team Eberle
Wagner
Cecchetti
Alexander
Eberle
Win - A Denham (1-0). Loss - G Cecchetti (0-1). Save - R Garcia (1). WP - C Eberle. HBP - by A Denham (H Flippen); by A Denham (M Davidson); by R Garcia (A Febrey); by C Eberle (D Mulipola). Inherited runners/scored: None. Pitches/strikes: T McQuillin 38/21; A Denham 58/34; R Garcia 57/33; H Wagner 44/29; G Cecchetti 13/8; O Alexander 45/32; C Eberle 47/28.
Umpires - HP: Craig Hyde 1B: Jim Cooper 3B: Scott Mair Start: 6:00 pm Time: 2:33 Attendance:
Player
r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Urtez ss 3 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 2
A Chidester 1b 4 1 0 0 0 1 6 0 0
E Piancastel dp 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
B Nickles rf 4 1 2 3 0 1 1 1 0
Si Romero 2b 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 3
J Roberts c 3 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 0
A Leach pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Sherrill 3b 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0
A Andrews lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
A Harrell ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D Watson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
M Mazon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
S Littlejohn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
P St. George p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 9 3 1 3 18 7 8
r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Lorenz lf 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0
S Rhodes cf 4 2 2 2 0 1 2 0 2
T Vidales dp 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
N Taylor 3b 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 1
G Svekis c 2 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 0
A Ocasio rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 2
D Gibson 1b 3 0 1 1 0 1 6 0 0
J Jefferson 2b 3 0 1 0 0 1 3 1 0
A Ramirez ss 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0
S Palacios ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 S Groenewege p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 R Lewis rf 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Totals 27 5 10 5 4 5 21 7 8
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Team Chidester 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 9 1
Team Ocasio 2 0 0 0 3 0 X 5 10 2
E - A Andrews; N Taylor; D Gibson. DP - Ocasio 1. LOB - Chidester 8; Ocasio 8. 2B - A Urtez. HR - B Nickles; S Rhodes. SH - A Urtez.
Team Chidester ip h r er bb so ab bf np D Watson 1.2 4 2 2 1 1 9 10 37 M Mazon 2.2 3 3 3 2 2 10 12 41 S Littlejohn 0.0 3 0 0 0 0 3 3 13 P St. George 1.2 0 0 0 1 2 5 6 26
Team Ocasio ip h r er bb so ab bf np S Groenewege 4.0 6 3 0 0 1 17 18 72 A Ocasio 3.0 3 0 0 1 2 13 14 40
Win - A Ocasio (1-1). Loss - M Mazon (1-2). Save - None. WP - S Groenewege. Inherited runners/scored: M Mazon 2/0; S Littlejohn 2/2; P St. George 3/0. Pitches/strikes: D Watson 37/21; M Mazon 41/27; S Littlejohn 13/9; P St. George 26/16; S Groenewege 72/43; A Ocasio 40/28.
Umpires - HP: Jim Cooper 1B: Scott Mair 3B: Craig Hyde Start: 8:30 pm Time: 2:10 Attendance:
GAME #7: TEAM MULIPOLA
Playerabrhrbibbsopoalob
HMcCleneycf411101400
ALeach2b322000210
ARamirezph/2b101000000
AChidester1b4123001000
DMulipolac200022401
SFischer3b200102141
EPiancastelrf200011002
NTaylordp300002000
KStokes-O'Clf311002010 SBatesss311100030
PSt.Georgep000000000
SLittlejohnp000000020
OAlexanderp000000000 Totals2768631021114
JAQUISH
TeamJaquish4(0-1)
Playerabrhrbibbsopoalob JJeffersonrf/2b401000003 SJaquish3b412001103
HFlippenss411100130
BNickleslf411200200
DSandersdp400000001
GSvekisc3111001000
AOcasiop/rf201010100 AFiller2b/1b301000210
JJacksoncf/pr201001100
AHarrellph000010000 DGibson1b000000300 MBalintp000000000 Totals30494222147
ScorebyInnings1234567RHE
E-PSt.George.DP-Jaquish1.LOB-Mulipola4;Jaquish7.2B-AChidester;KStokes-O'C;SJaquish.HRHMcCleney;AChidester;HFlippen;BNickles;GSvekis.SF-SFischer.SB-JJefferson.
TeamMulipolaiphrerbbsoabbfnp PSt.George3.063300151569
Win-SLittlejohn(1-0).Loss-AOcasio(1-2).Save-OAlexander(1). PB-DMulipola2;GSvekis.Inheritedrunners/scored:None.Pitches/strikes:PSt.George69/42;SLittlejohn 67/35;OAlexander17/10;AOcasio104/69;MBalint38/26.
Umpires-HP:SmokeyEdds1B:ScottMair3B:JimCooper Start:5:30pmTime:2:19Attendance: PSt.Georgefaced1batterinthe4th.
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
V Hayward cf 4 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 0
M Zerkle lf 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0
A Urtez ss 3 1 1 3 0 0 3 2 0
S Rhodes rf 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 4
Si Romero 2b 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 0
M Davidson dp 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Sherrill 3b 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 1
L Piper 3b/dp 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0
S Palacios c 3 0 1 0 0 1 4 1 0
R Bayless pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Febrey 1b 2 0 1 0 0 0 10 0 0
C Eberle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
A Denham p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 5 7 5 3 5 21 14 5
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
K Harshman 2b 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 0
M Wiggins lf 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
Sy Romero ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 0
T Vidales 1b 3 0 1 1 0 1 6 0 0
R Garcia p/dp 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
J Roberts dp 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Saile p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T Edwards c 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0
C Clifton 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
H Busby rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
A Andrews cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Totals 23 1 4 1 1 3 21 5 2
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Team Eberle 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 7 1 Team Harshman 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0
E - S Sherrill. DP - Eberle 2; Harshman 1. LOB - Eberle 5; Harshman 2. 2B - S Rhodes; A Febrey; Sy Romero. HRA Urtez. HBP - A Febrey. SF - A Urtez.
- C Eberle
-
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
K Harshman 2b 4 0 2 3 0 0 3 1 0
M Wiggins lf 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 3
Sy Romero ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
T Vidales 1b 4 2 3 0 0 0 3 0 0
T Edwards c 4 1 2 4 0 0 7 1 0
H Busby pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
C Clifton 3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
J Roberts ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
C Gano dp 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
R Lewis rf 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0
A Andrews cf 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
R Garcia p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D Watson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 8 10 7 1 3 19 3 4
Score by Innings
Harshman
Jaquish 0
Note: 1 out, 2 runners LOB when the game ended.
E - A Ocasio. LOB - Harshman 4; Jaquish 12. 2B - K Harshman; T Vidales;
Harshman
Win - M Balint (1-0). Loss - D Watson (0-1). Save -
HBP - by R Garcia (S Jaquish); by R
Balint 2/2. Pitches/strikes: R
(S
McQuillin
Umpires - HP: Jim Cooper 1B: Smokey Edds 3B: Scott
Start: 11:00 am Time: 2:30 Attendance:
McQuillin faced 2 batters in the
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
J Jefferson 2b/rf 3 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 3
H Flippen ss 3 2 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 S Jaquish 3b 2 1 1 3 1 0 1 1 3 B Nickles lf 5 1 3 1 0 1 2 0 0 G Svekis c 4 0 1 3 0 2 4 0 0
A Ocasio rf/dp 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 4
A Filler dp/1b 4 1 3 0 0 0 3 1 0
D Gibson 1b 1 1 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 D Sanders ph/dp 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0
J Jackson cf 2 2 2 1 2 0 3
Wagner
Balint
R H E
r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 3 2 3 3 2 0 0 0 0
A Leach 2b 5 2 2 0 0 2 1 3 3
A Chidester 1b 5 1 3 2 0 0 11 0 0
D Mulipola c 4 0 3 1 1 0 8 0 0
E Piancastel rf 5 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0
K Stokes-O'C lf 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5
S Fischer 3b 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 3
N Taylor ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Ramirez dp 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
O Alexander ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Bates ss 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 2
D O'Toole p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals 37 8 17 8 5 4 21 8 13
Score by Innings
Mulipola
Eberle
E - S Palacios. LOB - Mulipola 13; Eberle
Chidester; M Davidson. SB - V Hayward.
2B - H
Mulipola;
Rhodes.
ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
V Hayward cf 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
M Zerkle lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
A Urtez ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 S Rhodes rf 3 0 1 1 0 1 4 0 0 L Piper 3b 3 0 1 0 0 2 2 4 1 Si Romero 2b 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 M Davidson dp 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
S Palacios c 3 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 R Bayless pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Febrey 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 0 M Mazon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A Denham p 0 0 0 0 0 0
Eberle
McCleney;
-
- D O'Toole (1-1).
- D O'Toole;
Mazon
Eberle
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
K Harshman 2b 3 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
M Wiggins lf 4 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
Sy Romero ss 4 2 3 2 0 0 3 0 0
T Edwards c 4 1 2 3 0 1 7 0 1
T Vidales 1b 4 1 1 2 0 1 4 0 0
C Gano 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
J Roberts ph 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
H Busby rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
C Clifton ph 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3
R Lewis dp 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 0 0
A Andrews cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 2
D Watson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Saile p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 31 8 9 8 5 4 21 3 7
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 3 4 2 0 2 0 2 0 1
A Leach 2b 3 2 1 1 1 0 1 2 0
A Ramirez 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
A Chidester 1b 4 2 2 2 1 1 9 0 0
D Mulipola c 5 1 2 4 0 0 4 0 0
E Piancastel rf 4 1 3 5 0 0 2 0 1
K Stokes-O'C lf 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
N Rangel-Men lf 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
S Fischer dp 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
N Taylor 3b 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2
S Bates ss 4 2 2 0 0 1 1 3 0
O Alexander p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 S Littlejohn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 P St. George p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 13 15 13 4 5 21 5 6
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Team Harshman 0 0 4 0 2 0 2 8 9 1
Team Mulipola 1 6 2 0 4 0 0 13 15 1
E - M Wiggins; A Chidester. LOB - Harshman 7; Mulipola 6. 2B - Sy Romero; C Clifton; A Andrews; H McCleney; D Mulipola; N Taylor. HR - T Edwards; T Vidales; E Piancastel.
Team Harshman ip h r er bb so ab bf
D Watson 1.1 7 7 6 2 0 11 13 56 T McQuillin 2.2 5 2 2 0 4 13 13
S Saile 3.0 3 4 4 2 1 12 14 49
Team Mulipola ip h r er bb so ab bf np
Alexander 3.0 2 4 0 2 2 12 14 63 S Littlejohn 2.0 4 2 2 1 0 10 11 44 P St. George 2.0 3 2 2 2 2 9 11 51
Win - S Littlejohn (2-0). Loss - D Watson (0-2). Save - None. Inherited runners/scored: T McQuillin 2/2. Pitches/strikes: D Watson 56/31; T McQuillin 64/42; S Saile 49/24; O Alexander 63/46; S Littlejohn 44/26; P St. George 51/30.
Umpires - HP: Scott Mair 1B: Jim Cooper 3B: Smokey Edds
1:00
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Lorenz lf 2 1 2 1 2 0 3 0 0
H Flippen ss 3 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 1
S Jaquish 3b 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 0
B Nickles rf 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
G Svekis c 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 4
D Sanders dp 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Harrell ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D Gibson pr 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
J Jackson cf 4 1 1 2 0 1 3 0 0
A Filler 1b 3 0 0 0 1 0 8 0 0
J Jefferson 2b 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 3
M Balint p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Ocasio p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
H Wagner p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 6 6 4 7 4 21 6 9
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
V Hayward cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0
M Zerkle lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
A Urtez ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0
S Rhodes rf 3 1 2 1 1 0 3 0 0
L Piper 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0
Si Romero 2b 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 3
M Davidson dp 3 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 2
S Palacios c 2 0 1 0 1 0 5 0 0
R Bayless pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Febrey 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 1
C Eberle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 M Mazon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A Denham p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 29 3 7 3 3 2 21 8 8
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Team Jaquish 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 6 1 Team Eberle 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 1
E - J Jefferson; A Urtez. DP - Eberle 1. LOB - Jaquish 9; Eberle 8. 2B - A Lorenz 2; H Flippen. HR - S Rhodes; M Davidson. HBP - H Flippen; A Harrell.
Team Jaquish ip h r er bb so ab bf np M Balint 2.0 1 2 2 2 1 7 9 37 A Ocasio 3.0 5 0 0 1 1 15 16 51 H Wagner 2.0 1 1 1 0 0 7 7 24
Team Eberle ip h r er bb so ab bf np C Eberle 0.1 2 4 4 4 0 3 7 34 M Mazon 4.1 4 2 0 2 2 17 21 83 A Denham 2.1 0 0 0 1 2 7 8 39
Win - A Ocasio (2-2). Loss - C Eberle (2-1). Save - None. WP - A Ocasio; C Eberle 2; A Denham. HBP - by M Mazon (H Flippen); by M Mazon (A Harrell). Inherited runners/scored: M Mazon 2/0; A Denham 1/0. Pitches/strikes: M Balint 37/19; A Ocasio 51/33; H Wagner 24/15; C Eberle 34/13; M Mazon 83/53; A Denham 39/26.
Umpires - HP: Jim Cooper 1B: Smokey Edds 3B: Scott Mair Start: 3:30 pm Time: 2:20
Player ab r h rbi bb so po
A Leach 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 2 6 2
Sy Romero ss 2 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 0
S Jaquish 3b 4 1 2 3 0 1 0 2 1
B Nickles cf 3 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1
D Sanders dp 4 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 1
K Harshman rf 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
T Vidales 1b 3 0 1 1 1 1 10 0 0
S Palacios c 3 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 1
Taylor ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Wiggins lf 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
D O'Toole p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 7 8 7 4 7 21 10
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3
V Hayward rf 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 3
A Lorenz lf 3 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
T Edwards c 4 0 1 0 0 1 6 1 0 D Gibson pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Si Romero 2b 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 M Davidson dp 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 R Garcia 1b 2 0 0 0 1 0 6 0 2 S Sherrill 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 C Clifton ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 S Bates ss 2 0 1 0 1 1 4 2 0 M Mazon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 C Gano 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
McCleney
E - Sy Romero. DP - Jaquish
-
Hayward. HR - S Jaquish; D Sanders. HBP - M Wiggins 2.
Win - D O'Toole (2-1). Loss - T McQuillin (0-2). Save -
WP - T McQuillin. HBP - by T McQuillin (M Wiggins); by T McQuillin (M Wiggins).
1/0. Pitches/strikes: D O'Toole 120/73; M Mazon 75/39; T McQuillin 88/53; R Garcia 4/3.
Umpires - HP: Smokey Edds 1B: Alex Leap
Start: 5:34 pm Time: 2:28
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
J Jackson lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
J Roberts ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Rhodes rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
D Mulipola c 3 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 1
H Flippen ss 3 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 0
A Filler 1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 10 1 0
J Jefferson 2b 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
L Piper 3b 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 1
H Busby dp 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
A Andrews cf 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Ocasio p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
C Eberle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 2 7 1 2 3 18 12 5
Score by Innings
Team Mulipola
Team Chidester 0
0
0 0
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
M Zerkle cf 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0
A Chidester 1b 1 0 0 0 1 0 12 0 0
E Piancastel rf 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
A Urtez ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 0
G Svekis c 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2
R Lewis pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 S Fischer 3b 2 2 2 3 1 0 1 2 0
A Harrell dp 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 K Stokes-O'C lf 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
A Ramirez 2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
S Groenewege p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 A Denham p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
E - H Flippen; C Eberle; A Urtez. DP - Mulipola 1; Chidester 2. LOB - Mulipola 5; Chidester 3. 2B - S Rhodes. 3B - H Flippen. HR - D Mulipola; S Fischer 2. HBP - A Chidester. SB - A Andrews.
Team Mulipola ip h r er bb so ab bf np A Ocasio 4.0 2 1 1 2 2 13 16 55
C Eberle 2.0 1 3 0 1 1 8 9 36
Team Chidester ip h r er bb so ab bf np S Groenewege 4.0 4 2 1 2 1 15 17 64 A Denham 3.0 3 0 0 0 2 11 11 45
Win - A Denham (2-0). Loss - C Eberle (2-2). Save - None. WP - S Groenewege. HBP - by A Ocasio (A Chidester). PB - D Mulipola. Inherited runners/scored: None. Pitches/strikes: A Ocasio 55/31; C Eberle 36/18; S Groenewege 64/35; A Denham 45/32.
Umpires - HP: Alex Leap 1B: Scott Mair 3B: Smokey Edds Start: 8:29 pm Time: 1:42 Attendance:
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
M Zerkle cf 3 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0
A Chidester 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
E Piancastel rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
A Urtez ss 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
G Svekis c 2 0 1 0 1 1 6 0 0
S Fischer 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
A Harrell dp 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
R Bayless ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
R Lewis lf 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1
K Stokes-O'C lf 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
A Ramirez 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
H Wagner p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
M Balint p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
S Groenewege p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 25 2 5 2 2 6 21 5 4
Score by Innings
- R Lewis;
Chidester
Groenewege
Stokes-O'C.
Win - R Garcia (2-1). Loss - H Wagner (1-1).
runners/scored: M Balint 1/1. Pitches/strikes:
113/68.
Umpires - HP: Scott Mair 1B: Smokey
5:05
Time: 2:11
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 5 3 4 0 0 1 2 0 2
V Hayward rf 5 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0
A Lorenz lf 4 2 3 3 1 1 0 0 0
T Edwards c 4 1 1 3 1 1 8 1 2
Si Romero 2b 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 2
M Davidson dp 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
D Gibson 1b 4 0 3 1 0 1 4 0 1
C Clifton 3b 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1
S Bates ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0
R Garcia p 0 0 0 0 0
Player
r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Leach 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Sy Romero ss 3 2 1 0 1 1 4 2 2
S Jaquish c 3 2 1 0 1 1 3 2 1
B Nickles cf 4 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0
D Sanders dp 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1
K Harshman rf 4 1 2 4 0 1 2 0 0
T Vidales 1b 4 1 1 1 0 0 5 0 2
N Taylor 3b 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
N Rangel-Men pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Palacios c 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
M Wiggins lf 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0
S Saile p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
P St. George p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Littlejohn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 7 10 6 3 5 21 6 6
Player
r h rbi bb so po a lob
J Jackson lf 5 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 1
H Flippen ss 5 2 3 2 0 0 1 5 0
D Mulipola c 4 1 2 1 1 2 5 0 0
A Ocasio pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Rhodes rf 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
A Filler 1b 2 1 1 1 1 0 5 0 0
A Febrey 1b 0 1 0 0 1 0 7 0 0
J Jefferson 2b 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 2
H Busby dp 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
L Piper 3b 3 1 3 2 0 0 0 3 0 J Roberts ph 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 A Andrews cf 4 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 4 O Alexander p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 C Eberle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 36 12 15 11 4 7 21 12 7
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Team Jaquish 1 0 0 3 1 0 2 7 10 1
Team Mulipola 0 1 0 7 0 3 1 12 15 3
E - S Palacios; S Rhodes 2; J Jefferson. DP - Jaquish 1; Mulipola 1. LOB - Jaquish 6; Mulipola 7. 2B - Sy Romero; H Flippen; J Jefferson; L Piper. HR - K Harshman; T Vidales; H Flippen; D Mulipola. SH - A Leach. SBSy Romero; J Jackson; A Andrews. CS - H Flippen.
Team Jaquish ip h r er bb so ab bf np S Saile 3.1 7 6 6 2 2 16 18 73 P St. George 2.0 7 5 5 2 2 13 15 60 S Littlejohn 1.2 1 1 1 0 3 7 7 30
Team Mulipola
Alexander
Eberle
Win - C Eberle (3-2). Loss - S Saile (0-1). Save - None. WP - S Littlejohn. Inherited runners/scored: P St. George 2/2; S Littlejohn 2/1. Pitches/strikes: S Saile 73/41; P St. George 60/35; S Littlejohn 30/21; O Alexander 60/44; C Eberle 68/38.
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Urtez ss 5 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 3
M Zerkle cf 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
A Chidester 1b 3 2 2 3 1 0 5 0 0
S Fischer 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1
E Piancastel rf 1 1 1 0 3 0 1 1 0
R Lewis pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
G Svekis c 4 2 3 1 0 0 8 0 0
R Bayless dp 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 5
K Stokes-O'C lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
A Harrell ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Ramirez 2b 4 1 3 3 0 0 1 1 0
A Denham p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
M Balint p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Groenewege p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Totals 33 8 12 8 5 3 21 6 9
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Leach 2b 5 1 3 1 0 2 1 1 0
Sy Romero ss 4 1 2 0 0 1 5 2 0
S Jaquish 3b 3 2 0 1 2 2 1 3 2
B Nickles cf 4 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 2
D Sanders dp 5 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
K Harshman rf 3 1 2 1 2 0 1 0 0
T Vidales 1b 4 0 3 1 0 0 7 0 0
N Rangel-Men pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Palacios c 2 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 1
N Taylor ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
M Wiggins lf 3 2 1 0 1 0 3 0 3 S Littlejohn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 D O'Toole p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 P St. George p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 12 14 10 7 7 21 8 9
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Team Chidester 0 2 1 3 1 0 1 8 12 2
Team Jaquish 0 0 1 0 4 7 0 12 14 1
E - S Fischer; K Stokes-O'C; S Jaquish. LOB - Chidester 9; Jaquish 9. 2B - A Chidester; A Ramirez; D Sanders; K Harshman; T Vidales; S Palacios; M Wiggins. 3B - A Ramirez; Sy Romero. HR - A Chidester. SH - Sy Romero. SB - A Leach; S Jaquish.
Team Chidester ip h r er bb so ab bf np A Denham 4.2 7 5 1 4 5 20 25 92 M Balint 0.2 3 5 5 3 1 5 8 40 S Groenewege 1.2 4 2 2 0 1 9 9 35
Team Jaquish ip h r er bb so ab bf np S Littlejohn 2.1 4 3 2 1 2 11 12 52 D O'Toole 2.2 7 4 4 1 0 15 16 71 P St. George 2.0 1 1 1 3 1 7 10 40
Win - P St. George (1-0). Loss - M Balint (0-1). Save - None. PB - G Svekis. Inherited runners/scored: M Balint 3/1; S Groenewege 2/2; D O'Toole 1/1. Pitches/strikes: A Denham 92/55; M Balint 40/18; S Groenewege 35/23; S Littlejohn 52/29; D O'Toole 71/41; P St. George 40/19.
Umpires - HP: Alex Leap 1B: Scott Mair 3B: Smokey Edds Start: 4:34 pm Time: 2:49 Attendance:
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 4 1 3 1 1 0 3 0 0
V Hayward rf 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3
A Lorenz lf 5 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 3
T Edwards c 4 0 2 1 0 2 9 0 1
S Sherrill pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Si Romero 2b 2 2 1 0 2 1 1 2 0
M Davidson dp 3 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
D Gibson 1b 4 2 2 3 0 0 6 0 0
C Clifton 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
S Bates ss 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
R Garcia p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
M Mazon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 9 12 7 5 5 21 5 9
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
J Jackson lf 3 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
H Flippen ss 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0
D Mulipola c 4 1 1 2 0 1 5 2 0
S Rhodes rf 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 L Piper 3b 4 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1
J Jefferson 2b 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 0
H Busby dp 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
J Roberts ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
A Febrey 1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
A Filler 1b 1 0 0 0 1 0 6 0 0
A Andrews cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 O Alexander p 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 C Eberle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
6 5 6 4 9 21 9 5
Score by Innings 1 2 3
R H E Team McCleney 0 3 0 0 3 0
Team Mulipola 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 6
E - Si Romero; L Piper; J Jefferson; A Febrey. DP - Mulipola 1. LOB - McCleney 9; Mulipola 5. 2B - H McCleney; A Lorenz; T Edwards; M Davidson. HR - D Gibson; D Mulipola; S Rhodes 2. HBP - C Clifton; J Jackson. SB - J Jackson.
Team McCleney ip h r er bb so
R Garcia 5.0
T McQuillin 1.0 0 0 0 2
M Mazon 1.0 0 0 0
2
Mulipola
Alexander
Win - T McQuillin (1-2). Loss - C Eberle (3-3). Save - M Mazon (1). WP - O Alexander; C Eberle. HBP - by R Garcia (J Jackson); by C Eberle (C Clifton). Inherited runners/scored: None. Pitches/strikes: R Garcia 112/70; T McQuillin 29/16; M Mazon 17/10; O Alexander 50/32; C Eberle 110/65.
Umpires - HP: Scott Mair 1B: Smokey Edds 3B: Alex Leap Start: 7:47 pm Time: 2:45 Attendance:
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
M Zerkle cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 2
B Nickles lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
S Jaquish 3b 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
T Edwards c 3 0 1 0 0 1 9 1 0
Si Romero 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
S Bates ss 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 1
C Gano dp/1b 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
A Filler ph/1b 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
R Garcia 1b/dp 3 0 1 0 0 1 4 0 0
A Febrey pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
M Wiggins rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
H Wagner p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
P St. George p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 27 2 6 2 1 5 21 6 5
Score by Innings
Jaquish
McCleney
LOB - Jaquish
Team Jaquish
McCleney
-
H Wagner 3.1
P St. George 2.1
R Garcia 1.1
Win - D O'Toole (3-1).
Filler.
r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 4 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 1
A Leach 2b 3 0 2 0 1 0 3 2 1
A Lorenz lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 S Rhodes rf 4 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 2 S Fischer 3b 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0
M Davidson dp 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
D Gibson 1b 3 0 1 0 0 1 6 0 0
C Clifton ss 3 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 0
S Palacios c 2 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 3 N Taylor ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
D O'Toole p 0 0 0 0 0 0
Team McCleney
O'Toole
h r er bb so ab bf np
2
28
- P St. George (1-1).
-
Inherited runners/scored: P St. George
Pitches/strikes:
P St. George 51/28; R Garcia 19/11; D O'Toole
Player
r h rbi bb so
V Hayward cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Flippen ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0
Romero 3b 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Mulipola c 3 1 1 1 0 1 4 0 1
Piancastel rf 2 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 0
D Sanders dp 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
Stokes-O'C pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jackson lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Piper 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 5 2 0
Jefferson 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
Harrell ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Alexander p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Cecchetti p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Saile p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
2 3 2 1 3 18 9
Player
r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Urtez ss 3 1 2 2 0 0 3 4 0
A Ramirez 2b 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0
A Chidester 1b 2 0 0 0 1 0 10 0 2
K Harshman lf 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
T Vidales rf 2 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0
G Svekis c 3 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 2
J Roberts dp 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
A Ocasio pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Sherrill 3b 3 0 0
Andrews
Denham
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Team Mulipola 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 Team Chidester 0 2 1 1 0 0 X 4 6 0
DP - Mulipola 1. LOB - Mulipola 4; Chidester 5. HR - D Mulipola; E Piancastel; A Urtez; T Vidales. HBP - Sy Romero; D Sanders; K Harshman.
Team Mulipola ip h r er bb so
O Alexander 2.2
G Cecchetti 1.0
Saile 1.1
McQuillin 1.0
0 0 0
0
0 1 0
0 0 0 0
Chidester
Win - A Denham (3-0). Loss - O Alexander (0-1). Save - None. WP - O Alexander. HBP - by A Denham (Sy Romero); by A Denham (D Sanders); by G Cecchetti (K Harshman). PB - D Mulipola. Inherited runners/scored: S Saile 1/1. Pitches/strikes: O Alexander 41/26; G Cecchetti 27/14; S Saile 15/9; T McQuillin 14/11; A Denham 100/65.
Umpires - HP: Scott Mair 1B: Smokey Edds 3B: Craig Hyde Start: 8:16 pm Time: 1:48 Attendance:
Player
A Urtez
Player
0 1 1 0 0 2 2
A Ramirez 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
A Chidester 1b 3 0 1 0 1 0 10 0 2
Harshman lf 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Vidales rf 3 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0
G Svekis c 2 0 0 0 2 0 5 1 1
Lewis pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
J Roberts dp 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ocasio pr 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Andrews cf 3 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0
Rangel-Men cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sherrill 3b 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0
Eberle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Balint p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
Chidester
McCleney
E - A Lorenz.
- Chidester
5 7 5 4 2 21 9 7
r h rbi bb so po a
H McCleney cf 6 1 2 2 0 1 1 0 1
A Leach 2b 2 3 1 1 2 0 1 4 0
A Lorenz lf 3 3 2 6 2 0 3 0 0
S Rhodes rf 4 3 2 4 1 0 0 0 2
S Fischer 3b 4 2 2 0 1 0 4 2 0
M Davidson dp 4 2 3 4 1 0 0 0 0
D Gibson 1b 4 2 1 0 0 2 8 1 2
N Taylor ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
C Clifton ss 5 3 3 3 0 0 3 1 1
S Palacios c 4 0 1 0 0 2 1 1
Bayless ph
Mazon
Littlejohn
R H E
Ocasio; S Fischer; M Davidson 2;
Clifton 2. 3B - A Lorenz. HR - T Vidales; A Lorenz; S Rhodes; M Davidson; C Clifton. HBP - J Roberts; A Leach. SH - A Leach.
Team Chidester
C Eberle
A Ocasio
Balint
Win - M Mazon (2-3).
- C Eberle (3-4). Save -
Team McCleney
Mazon
Littlejohn
WP - M Balint 2. HBP - by M Mazon (J Roberts); by A Ocasio (A Leach). Inherited runners/scored: None. Pitches/strikes: C Eberle 72/43; A Ocasio 41/22; M Balint 85/44; M Mazon 103/66; S Littlejohn 31/18.
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
M Zerkle cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
B Nickles lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
S Jaquish 3b 3 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 2
T Edwards c 2 0 0 0 1 0 8 0 1
R Garcia dp 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
A Filler 1b 3 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 2
Si Romero 2b 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
H Busby ph 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
M Wiggins rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Febrey ph 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
S Bates ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 3 0
P St. George p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
S Groenewege p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 27 1 5 1 3 5 18 7 8
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
V Hayward cf 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1
H Flippen ss 3 1 1 0 1 1 2 0 2
Sy Romero 2b 3 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 D Mulipola c 2 0 0 0 1 2 5 1 1 E Piancastel rf 1 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 0
D Sanders dp 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
L Piper 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 J Jefferson pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Harrell 1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 1 J Jackson lf 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 S Saile p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O Alexander p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 3 5 3 6 8 21 4 8
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Team Jaquish 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 1 Team Mulipola 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 5 1
E - S Bates; Sy Romero. DP - Mulipola 1. LOB - Jaquish 8; Mulipola 8. 2B - S Jaquish; Sy Romero. SH - V Hayward. SB - H Flippen.
Jaquish
St.
Groenewege
- T McQuillin (2-2). Loss - P St. George (1-2). Save -
Alexander
WP - R Garcia; P St. George; O Alexander. Inherited runners/scored: R Garcia
Pitches/strikes: P St. George 80/44; S Groenewege
R Garcia
T McQuillin
Player
Harshman
Rangel-Men
Player
Zerkle
Nickles
Jaquish
2 0 1 0
2 0 1 0 0 1
3 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Garcia p 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 A Febrey pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A Filler 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
T Edwards c 3 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 Si Romero 2b 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 H Busby rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 M Wiggins rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 S Bates ss 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Totals 22 0 3 0 1 5 21 5 3
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H
Team Chidester 0 0 0 0 0
0
Team Jaquish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DP - Chidester 1. LOB - Chidester 7; Jaquish 3. 2B - A Urtez; M Zerkle. 3B - A Chidester; K Harshman. HBP - A Chidester; J Roberts. SH - A Ramirez; B Nickles.
Team Chidester ip h r er bb so ab bf np A Denham 7.0 3 0 0 1 5 22 24 94
Team Jaquish ip h
R Garcia 7.0 5 1 1 2 9 24 29 125
Win - A Denham (4-0). Loss - R Garcia (2-2). Save - None. HBP - by R Garcia (A Chidester); by R Garcia (J Roberts). Inherited runners/scored: None. Pitches/strikes: A Denham 94/63; R Garcia 125/80.
Umpires - HP: Scott Mair 1B: Smokey Edds 3B: Craig Hyde Start: 1:04 pm Time: 2:02 Attendance:
Playerabrhrbibbsopoalob
Playerabrhrbibbsopoalob
ScorebyInnings1234567RHE
E-SFischer.DP-McCleney1;Mulipola1.LOB-McCleney5;Mulipola5.2B-DSanders.3B-DMulipola.HRDMulipola.HBP-SRhodes.
TeamMcCleneyiphrerbbsoabbfnp DO'Toole6.083302262695
Win-TMcQuillin(3-2).Loss-DO'Toole(3-2).Save-None. HBP-bySSaile(SRhodes).PB-DMulipola.Inheritedrunners/scored:None.Pitches/strikes:DO'Toole95/60;S Saile54/27;TMcQuillin64/39.
Umpires-HP:SmokeyEdds1B:CraigHyde3B:ScottMair Start:3:34pmTime:1:46Attendance:
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Lorenz lf 4 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 0
A Leach 2b 4 1 2 0 0 0 4 1 0
S Jaquish 3b 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 3 0
R Lewis pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T Vidales 1b 4 2 2 4 0 1 7 0 2
D Sanders dp 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
R Garcia p 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
C Clifton ss 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
D Gibson rf 4 1 1 3 0 2 2 0 0
G Svekis c 4 1 1 1 0 0 5 0 2
M Wiggins cf 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
A Denham p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 31 10 9 10 4 5 21 8 4
Score by Innings
Denham
Team Chidester
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Urtez ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 4 0
J Jackson lf 4 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0
A Chidester 1b 3 2 2 2 0 0 8 0 0
B Nickles cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 K Harshman 2b 2 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0
T Edwards c 3 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 0 K Stokes-O'C pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
J Roberts dp 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 H Busby rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 S Sherrill 3b 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
M Mazon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 S Littlejohn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 H Wagner p
E - A Leach; A Chidester. LOB - Denham 4; Chidester 4. 2B - T Vidales; J Jackson. 3B - C Clifton.
Lorenz; T Vidales; D Gibson; G Svekis; A Chidester.
- A Denham (5-0).
Mazon
-
WP - S Littlejohn. Inherited runners/scored:
Littlejohn
-
Pitches/strikes:
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
V Hayward cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1
Sy Romero 2b 4 2 3 0 0 0 2 2 0
D Mulipola c 3 1 1 2 1 0 3 1 0
H Flippen ss 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 4 1
M Davidson rf 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
L Piper 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Si Romero dp 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
O Alexander 1b 3 0 2 0 0 0 6 0 1
A Andrews pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
C Gano 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
M Zerkle lf 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0
S Saile p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 26 4 7 4 3 3 18 11 6
Score by Innings
Mulipola
McCleney
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2
A Ramirez 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2
S Rhodes rf 3 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 0
E Piancastel lf 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0
S Fischer 3b 3 1 2 3 0 1 0 2 0
A Filler 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 11 1 2
N Taylor dp 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
S Palacios c 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 N Rangel-Men pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S Bates ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 3 4 0
D O'Toole p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 P St. George p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 7 5 4 4 21 13 6
DP - McCleney 2. LOB - Mulipola 6; McCleney 6. 2B - Sy Romero 2; O Alexander. 3B - S Bates. HR - D Mulipola; S Rhodes 2; S Fischer. HBP - H Flippen;
Win - P St. George (2-2). Loss - T McQuillin (3-3). Save - None. HBP - by D O'Toole (H Flippen); by D O'Toole (M Davidson).
Pitches/strikes: S Saile 43/25; T McQuillin
D O'Toole
Umpires - HP: Don Brown 1B: Scott Mair 3B: Smokey Edds Start: 7:19 pm Time: 2:00 Attendance:
P St. George
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
H McCleney cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
S Rhodes rf 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0
E Piancastel lf 3 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 2
S Fischer 3b 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
A Filler 1b 2 0 0 1 0 1 7 0 0
N Taylor dp 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
S Palacios c 3 0 1 0 0 1 5 0 0
N Rangel-Men pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A Ramirez 2b 3 0 1 0 0 0 3 2 0
S Bates ss 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 0
D Watson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
M Balint p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
P St. George p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 24 2 4 2 4 8 21 6 7
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Urtez ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 0
J Jackson lf 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0
A Chidester 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 1
T Edwards c 2 0 0 0 1 0 9 0 0 R Bayless pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
K Harshman 2b 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
B Nickles cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
S Sherrill 3b 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 H Busby dp 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
K Stokes-O'C rf 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0
M Mazon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 S Groenewege p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 25 1 5 1 1 5 21 6 5
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Team McCleney 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 Team Chidester 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 1
E - S Groenewege. DP - McCleney 1. LOB - McCleney 7; Chidester 5. 2B - S Fischer; K Stokes-O'C. HBP - K Harshman. SH -
Team McCleney
Watson
Balint
St.
Win - M Balint (2-1). Loss - M Mazon (2-5). Save - P St. George (1). HBP - by D Watson (K Harshman). Inherited runners/scored: None. Pitches/strikes: D Watson
Chidester
P St. George 34/20; M Mazon 83/51; S Groenewege 37/26.
-
M Balint
Player ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
A Lorenz lf 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0
A Leach 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1
S Jaquish 3b 1 0 0 0 2 0 4 2 0
T Vidales 1b 2 0 0 0 2 1 6 0 0
A Ocasio pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
C Clifton ss 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0
D Sanders ph 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
R Garcia p 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
J Jefferson pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D Gibson rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
G Svekis c 3 1 2 1 0 0 8 0 0
R Lewis pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
M Wiggins cf 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 4 6 3 5 3 21 6 9
ab r h rbi bb so po a lob
V Hayward cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1
Sy Romero 2b 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0
D Mulipola c 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 H Flippen ss 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 M Davidson rf 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
L Piper 3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3
A Febrey ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Si Romero dp 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
O Alexander p/1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 0
A Andrews pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
M Zerkle lf 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 3
C Gano 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 C Eberle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 T McQuillin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Totals 24 0 3 0 3 8 21 9 10
Score by Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Team Denham 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 6 1 Team Mulipola 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
E - A Lorenz; Sy Romero; T McQuillin. LOB - Denham 9; Mulipola 10. 2B - G Svekis; M Wiggins. 3B - A Lorenz. HR G Svekis. HBP - S Jaquish; C Clifton; D Mulipola; M Davidson; O Alexander 2. SB - A Leach.
Team Denham ip h r er bb so ab bf np R Garcia 7.0 3 0 0 3 8 24 31 143
Team Mulipola ip h r er bb so ab bf np O Alexander 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 7
33 C Eberle 2.0 3 2 2 2 0 8
31 T McQuillin 3.0 3 2 2 3 3 12 16
Win - R Garcia (3-2). Loss - C Eberle (3-5). Save - None. WP - O Alexander. HBP - by C Eberle (C Clifton); by R Garcia (O Alexander); by R Garcia (D Mulipola); by R Garcia (M Davidson); by R Garcia (O Alexander); by T McQuillin (S Jaquish). Inherited runners/scored: T McQuillin 1/1. Pitches/strikes: R Garcia 143/89; O Alexander 33/22; C Eberle 31/15; T McQuillin 77/43.
Umpires - HP: Smokey Edds 1B: Don Brown 3B: Scott Mair Start: 2:34 pm Time: 2:29 Attendance: C Eberle faced 2 batters in the 5th.
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Umpires-HP:ScottMair1B:SmokeyEdds3B:DonBrown Start:3:46pmTime:2:14Attendance: Gamenotes: Weatherdelayinbottomof6thinningstartedat5:32p.m.CT
The Romero household has always been competitive.
The oldest siblings, Sierra and Sydney, would race to the car as kids to see who was faster. As Mikey and Sophia, the younger of the four got older, they all contended in the batting cages to test who could hit the back of the net most.
It’s in that backyard batting cage in Temecula, Calif., and across the south ern region of the state that Sierra and Sydney developed against some of the best in softball. The story of the familial power duo is familiar to fans: one went to Michigan to set NCAA records, the other to Oklahoma to win multiple national championships. All the while both were stellar middle infielders. They’re the most well-known siblings in the sport.
As their professional journeys have taken them around the world, timing and injuries have held the siblings back from reuniting on the field. Thirty-two and two, shortstop and second base.
A lifetime of softball led to AUX being the moment that brought not only the set of sisters together but their whole family.
“We felt that connection being back in the middle together and it was the same thing in high school,” Sydney said. “And to see our family in the stands, just being able to see that their first time seeing us play really pro fessionally together, it was really special.”
It’s no small task to raise a kid chasing their athletic dreams to the highest level. Melissa and Mike Romero do it for four: fees for travel balls teams; packing snacks and lunches; driving to and from the ballpark.
“My parents definitely sacrificed a lot,” Sierra said. “There are things I’m sure they would’ve wanted to do, but instead they were at a softball field for 10 hours because we got to the loser’s bracket.”
From starting tee-ball at age four to Athletes Unlimited at 28, Sierra could always look into the stands and see her parents. This time, they were there for her return from injury. She’s spent over a year training, rehabbing, and recovering from ACL and meniscus injuries.
AUX was her breakout debut. She finished with the third-best batting average in the league, hitting .409. She tied as the RBI leader with 11 and knocked a signature “RomBomb.”
With the mentality instilled by her dad Mike, she’s always chasing perfec tion.
“We can go two-for-four and he’s like, ‘What happened those other two at-bats?’” Sierra laughed. “He’s always pushing us and challenging us to do more, be better and never settle.”
Sydney recalled looking up into the stands during an at-bat and mouthing to him, ‘What do you see?’ He commented back and she followed with a hit to left-center.
“All I have to do is look at him,” Sydney explained. “One thing he says, it’ll just click and I’ll get myself going.”
Mike Romero analyzes his kids through the same lens he did for himself. Watching at San Diego State University, it’s even on the same campus as his college career; Mike played four years as an Aztec.
Full circle, meant to be, kismet. Whatever you want to call it, AUX in San Diego is where it all aligned for the Romero family to do what they do best: support one another.
While Sydney and Sierra practiced, Mike and Melissa were at Petco Park with Mikey for the MLB Draft Combine. Then for Mike and Melissa to both to be in the stands for an AUX game day, Mikey drove their sister Sophia to her softball games with the OC Batbusters.
“We really are just like a little team and we just try to help out whenever we can,” Sierra said.
This bond and love are difficult for the sisters to encapsulate in words.
Recently, Sierra inked it on her skin. Their legacy, their name: Romero.
“There’s my whole left arm… to me, it’s like a story. Different parts and pieces that I’ve gotten are when I have felt certain ways or things that I’ve experienced,” Sierra explained. “So when I got the Romero tattoo, it’s like the development of me becoming a Romero.”
Family, craziness, love, passion, determination, and a whole lotta good food. All things Sierra and Sydney described are wrapped into the name they wear proudly on their jerseys.
“My arm is hopefully gonna be a collage of different things that got me to become a good Romero,” Sierra added. “I know what it means to my family – my dad and my mom have set great examples of what that means so I just strive to be like them every single day.”
If you check the arrivals board at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, you may see that Greta Cecchetti’s ETA to Athletes Unlimited is set for late July – after a delay of a year.
The wait should be worth it.
Athletes Unlimited is getting a world-class pitcher who helped put Team Italy on the map in world softball.
And the 33-year-old Cecchetti will get a chance to play with and against the top professional softball players in the world.
Cecchetti has plied her trade around the world. That includes a recent stay in Japan, where she pitched for SGH Galaxy Stars. Athletes Unlimited will be her latest stop in a softball journey that began in her hometown of Bollate, Italy. That’s just one reason for the excitement.
“I could think of a million reasons,” she said about playing for Athletes Unlimited. “Just the chance to be part of such a big event and everything they stand for. It’s not just the softball. It’s playing for a cause and giving women’s softball and women’s sports visibility in everything they do. It’s just great for the sport and being part of that and just being part of a pool of 60 athletes who are the best softball athletes in the world. It doesn’t get any better than that.”
It’s been a whirlwind past year for Cecchetti. She pitched for Team Italy in the Tokyo Olympics last summer, putting up an ERA of 3.44 in 18.1 innings pitched. She was set to join Athletes Unlimited for its second season in Rosemont, but she was unable to obtain a visa in time.
“Because of COVID, they cut down a lot of visa appointments,” she said. “I couldn’t get my appointment in time. I couldn’t come weeks late because it’s (the AU season) only five weeks. Unfortunately it didn’t work out. But I’m good with the visa now.”
Cecchetti’s softball journey began in her home country of Italy, which is gaining a foothold in both softball and baseball. Like many athletes who eventually find their sport, it took some trial and error for Cecchetti before she fell in love with softball.
“When I was little I tried different sports,” she said. “I am very tall (6 feet), and I was very tall growing up – and very uncoordinated. I wasn’t good at anything, let’s just say that. Let’s be honest. My aunties played softball, and they represented Italy, as well. So they said, ‘Why don’t you try it. It’s fun. It’s a sport that allows different body types, and you can definitely grow and improve with that.’
“Bollate, my hometown, is pretty much like a softball capital in Italy. Everybody in Bollate knows about it. Maybe not everybody in Italy knows about softball, but everybody in Bollate knows what softball is because we have such a big tradition. So I started playing when I was seven and never stopped.”
Cecchetti kept refining her softball skills, and while attending the Italian Softball Academy in Tirrenia, she caught the eye of U.S. softball and coach ing legends Jay Miller and Susie Parra, who helped her create a profile, which led to her coming to the States to study and play softball at Polk State College in Florida before she headed to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
“During high school, they opened this baseball and softball academy that was financed by MLB,” Cecchetti said. “It was mainly a way for MLB to find prospects for the minor leagues. The federation decided to put some funds for softball into that, too. As soon as I heard that, I signed up and did a tryout. That year they selected only six softball players. That meant I had to move away from home for my last years of high school. The academy was in Tuscany. That’s about a five-hour train ride from home.
“That’s kind of what made me think about college because I was already away from home, going to school in the morning, practicing every day. It kind of resembled what college is like. I knew a couple of baseball guys
who were looking into that. They got me to start thinking about, ‘Oh, I love softball. I want to keep studying, but I don’t really want to do it in Italy, and I know softball is great in the U.S.A., so let’s look into that.’”
There was a period of adjustment at Polk for Cecchetti, who was learning a new language and adapting to a new culture.
“Yes, it was tough at the beginning,” she said. “My English was not good. That’s one of the main reasons I picked a junior college, because of smaller classes and getting to know the teachers. And they also offer those intro to college classes where they could help me with English.
“My college coach, Jeff Ellis, used to say, ‘The first two months, she didn’t open her mouth. I didn’t know what her voice was like.’ It was pretty accurate. You’re thrown into it. Nobody speaks Italian. You’ve got to learn fast. I had to adjust to that very quickly. Even just learning about the school system and how it works with credits and GPA, everything is completely different. I had to learn that quickly and adjust quickly.”
The pinnacle of Cecchetti’s career – to date – came last summer when she marched out with her Italian teammates to take part in the Olympic Games. Team Italy didn’t win a game, but they proved they belonged on the world stage.
“It’s hard to describe it,” Cecchetti said. “It was absolutely amazing. Being in the village, being surrounded by so many great athletes and not just with softball, but any sport in the world, I’ve dreamed about this since I was a little kid. So finally just getting there and getting that feeling of everything I’ve worked for so far, now I can say that it’s worth it.”
The Games were bittersweet for Team Italy, which lost its coach and longtime softball sage Enrico Obletter to complications from COVID-19 in February of 2021.
“It was a really tough journey for us,” Cecchetti said. “We lost our head coach to COVID. So that was really tough, and adjusting to the new coach ing staff and all of that. We didn’t win any games. We got pretty close. We played some good ballgames. But the overall experience for me was great. It’s something that I will remember in a positive way for the rest of my life. Looking at it now, that’s what allowed me to be here right now.
“(Obletter was) such a big influence. He was the first person to believe in us when we didn’t believe in ourselves, when nobody believed in us. His pas sion, his energy, he just gave all of that to us. He got us to the point where we went from being no one to being a team that is top six teams in the whole world. And that only happened in three or four years. That says it all.”
Cecchetti wasn’t the only AU player to take part in the Olympics for Team It aly. Catcher Erika Piancastelli, who will begin her third season with AU, was in Tokyo with Cecchetti, and recently played with her in the Japan Diamond League. Piancastelli was asked what fans of AU softball can expect from Cecchetti.
“The fans can expect to see a lot of passion and a lot of smiles from Greta,” she said. “She loves the game, and I’m so excited for her to be able to finally experience the AU atmosphere.”
Of course, Cecchetti and Piancastelli can make history this season together as the first all-Italian battery in Athletes Unlimited. With teams changing ev ery week, there figures to be several chances for Piancastelli trying to get a hit off Cecchetti, who will be trying to strike out her Team Italy mate.
Either way, it will be a source of pride for both.
“Catching Greta would be so much fun,” Piancastelli said. “I definitely love to be able to have the Italian duo in action on the same team. I’ve caught her so many times but being able to catch her at AU, in front of the AU crowd, against all the elite players there, would be amazing.
“Hitting off Greta would be fun just because I don’t get to compete against her much. We’re always on the same team and we’re both very competitive, so getting a chance to hit off her will be challenging and a lot of fun for me!”
As for Cecchetti, she said she’s looking forward to having fun in her venture with AU. She’s proud of her role as a pioneer for other Italian softball play ers. And although she is 33, she warns that she hasn’t peaked yet. “I don’t think that point has come yet,” she said. “I’m always thinking how lucky I am to get this far but, ‘What did I do to get here? How can I stay here? What can I do to do more and be better?’ I always have this mentality of, ‘I’m 33 years old now, but in my head I’m still that kid from Italy who is trying to do something Italian players have never done before and to push the new generations out of their comfort zones.’
“I didn’t even know softball was a thing in Italy, and here we go. We have so many kids playing in junior colleges and so many athletes trying to go to D-I. This is something we didn’t have when I started my journey. So it’s really exciting for me to see. Now I have people saying, ‘This is really cool what you’re doing. I want to play, too.’ These are opportunities I’ve never dreamed about when I was younger.”
Out of failure can come great success, or at least another shot at success. Just ask Sydney Littlejohn Watkins.
A year ago in June, the former University of Alabama standout was in Rose mont, Ill. to take part in open tryouts for Season 2 of Athletes Unlimited Softball.
Things didn’t go as planned, and Littlejohn Watkins didn’t earn a contract. To add insult to injury, not only did rainstorms force the open tryouts inside to the dome, but then tornado sirens forced players off the indoor field and into shelter during the middle of a scrimmage.
“Oh, my God, that was horrible,” Littlejohn Watkins said with a laugh. “Hon estly, I’m not going to say that affected me and that was the reason I didn’t (perform well at the) tryout because even more than that, I knew I wasn’t ready.”
Fast-forward to June 2022 and the Athletes Unlimited AUX Softball games in San Diego.
Let’s just say that Littlejohn Watkins was ready. In 27 innings pitched, the curveball specialist went 1-0 with a 2.82 ERA and 15 strikeouts. She was all set to try out for Season 3 of AU softball in Rosemont, but her performance in AUX earned her a spot, making another tryout unnecessary.
Making it more special was the way she found out she had made it.
“I texted Cheri (Kempf, AU’s Director of Sport, Softball) in a group message and was like, ‘Just so you know, I do want to try out again,’” she said. “Lucki ly, my performance was decent. I thought it was good. It was well enough to be stuck in their minds.
“During the middle of the second series, warming up for a game, we do this thing where we get together and somebody in the group asks a question and everybody in the group answers it. I don’t even remember what the question was that day, but at the end, (outfielder) Victoria Hayward was like, ‘Hey, guys, we have an announcement. For this person, based on how their performance has been, they’ve been great, they’re great teammates, and Sydney, would you like to join us for Season 3?’ I was like, ‘Oh!’ I cried a little. It was an amazing, full-circle moment. I was really happy, but it was like the little girl inside me was super happy because failing the first time and knowing I wasn’t ready, I was OK with that.”
With the 27-year-old Littlejohn Watkins, AU will be getting one of the most decorated pitchers in the history of the University of Alabama – with two perfect games to her credit – as well as the quintessential small-town-girlmakes-good story. A native of Rusk, Texas, in the eastern part of the Lone Star State, Littlejohn Watkins didn’t take up pitching until she was 12.
“Everybody knows this, so I’m just going to go out and say it: I am very weird and I’m awkward and I embrace every part of that with me,” she said. “I had been in cheerleading. I had been doing all these other activities. I’m not going to say I wasn’t good at them. In cheerleading, I got to where I was taller than everybody else. It was just awkward.
“A lot of my friends growing up, the friend group I was a part of, played softball. I told my parents, ‘I want to play. I want to be social.’ I lived out in the boonies. I didn’t have a neighborhood that I lived in that I could go play with the kids. I was out jumping hay bales out in the pasture. That was my way of entertainment.”
Littlejohn Watkins admits she was not an ace pitcher from the get-go.
“I wanted something to be able to be with my friends and hang out and just have fun,” she said. “I fell in love with the game that way, but let me tell you, I was not good. I was the player that happily rode the bench with my little Dr. Pepper and my little wet towel, iced towel around my neck, and I cheered for the team. It was a lot of fun. I would play right field for two innings because that was the rule to get everybody to play at that time.
“And it was fine. I was lanky and awkward and I had big hands and big feet. One of the coaches was like, ‘You know what, Sydney? You should try pitching.’ I went home and told my parents I wanted to be a pitcher. They laughed at me. They did not take me seriously. God bless ‘em. I understand why they did it because it’s quite the investment. But then I kept hounding them about it.”
There were pitching lessons and three-hour one-way trips on the weekend for those lessons and practices. Littlejohn Watkins’ goal at first was to make the varsity high school team. She did that. And then she was good enough for Alabama, where she hit the jackpot, starring in the circle and meeting her future husband, Alex Watkins.
Sydney has an undergrad degree in exercise science and two master’s degrees, one in nutrition sciences and one in sports business management. Today, Sydney and Alex work together at the University of Florida – Alex as a strength and conditioning coach for the Gators football team and Sydney as a registered dietitian.
Athletes Unlimited first caught Sydney’s attention during Season 1 in 2020. “It was a lot of things,” she said. “First of all, the timing of it. It came out during COVID, and we were all at home sitting and watching. I kept telling my husband, ‘Man, I really want to play again.’ My body was finally healthy. I had a hip surgery in 2019 so I felt I was finally in a better place from that. And I was also in a place where I graduated with my second master’s in December of 2021.
“A lot of these girls are girls that I’ve played against. Knowing that they’re still out there and that they’re still competing was definitely what drew me to it. I think it was more of a thing where, ‘I got the itch, and I need to scratch it.’ So that way, whenever I am older and not able to play any more, and if my husband and I decide to have kids, I can tell them I gave everything I had. Everything in me tells me that one day I’m going to have daughters. I don’t know why. If I have sons, great, but I have a feeling I’m going to have daughters since my sister has boys. I have a feeling I’m going to be the one to have the girls.
“I want to be able to talk the talk and walk the walk like, ‘Hey, I did do this. I want you guys to know that I fought for female athletics and female sports and I did my best to make a difference. So that way, you have a better opportunity.’ I want to leave my legacy with the game, as well.”
AUX Softball was a big boost for Littlejohn Watkins.
“I thought it was great,” she said. “It was definitely a grind … Playing that many games that quickly, I haven’t done that in a very long time. But I will say I was very proud of how my body held up. And I was thankful for a lot of the resources that the support staff gave us because that’s what kept me together.
“It was such an amazing experience being able to be out there … A lot of these girls I’ve played against. But I haven’t played with many of them. It was nice to sometimes be on the same team as some of those girls and getting to see how they are as people.”
Now with Season 3 of Athletes Unlimited Softball at hand, Sydney Littlejohn Watkins is looking to play again, with a fresh sense of perspective and for the love of the game.
“Personal goals, I want to make a decent showing,” she said. “I’m trying to embrace not putting pressure on myself. The thing with these hitters, and I learned it very quickly, is you may have a good outing and you get your confidence up and that’s great. But the next game, you could have six runs scored against you so quickly you can’t even blink. And the next inning, you’re fine.
“My goal with that is to very much have a short-term memory. Being around all these great pitchers, I want to learn – still. Being 27 and pitching, every body is like, ‘What do you mean you want to learn?’ But I still want to learn how to set up hitters and how different people do it and perfect some of my pitches as I continue to go through this season. I’m not the same exact pitcher you see every week.”
And if there’s a folksy analogy to expand on that point, Littlejohn Watkins is there for you with it.
“Obviously, everybody knows with me they’re getting a curveball,” she said. “I am Raising Cane’s Chicken. At Raising Cane’s you know you’re going to get good chicken. With me, if you’re a hitter, you know I’m going to throw you a curveball. I’m not Cheesecake Factory, where you have all these dif ferent pitch selections. I am throwing you a curveball. It may be perfecting my drop curves so that way I’m breaking two planes against the batters. Just adding to my arsenal each week is something I would like to do.”
In the bigger picture and for the long term, Littlejohn Watkins would like to inspire girls and young women with the lessons of her own story.
“Honestly, as cheesy as it sounds, I say bet on yourself,” she said. “Even with me and my story, especially after tryouts last year, everybody was like, ‘OK, Sydney, it’s time to hang them up. You don’t have it anymore.’ And I’m like, ‘No. I know deep inside me that I still have it.’ The only other person that trusted me with that was my husband. Of course I’m very grateful for him. I know what I am capable of, and I know whenever I’m at my limit. And that’s OK. Once you know your limits, you’re limitless.
“Trusting in yourself and betting on yourself is the best thing you can do … Whatever happens, good or bad, you got to be happy with yourself for it. You got to 100 percent because even if you fail, you’re not leaving any doubt with yourself.”
Amanda Chidester forever will be an Athletes Unlimited history maker.
Two years ago, on the eve of Season 1 of AU softball, Chidester became the first No. 1 draft pick in the organization’s history.
Chidester has gone on to become one of the most productive, exciting and vocal players in AU. The power-hitting corner infielder (seven home runs to lead AU in 2021) will serve as the captain of Team Orange for Week 1 of the 2022 season after her second-place finish on last year’s leaderboard.
This year will be Chidester’s swan song, as she plans to retire as a softball player at season’s end after a career that has included starring at the University of Michigan, being a medalist for Team USA in the Olympics and playing professionally.
“I’m getting older,” the 32-year-old Chidester said. “I feel I’ve done every thing I wanted to do in the sport. I’ve started a new venture with HitTrax where I’ve been working to create an app called RISR, and it’s been a lot of fun. It’s been taking a lot of my time. It just feels like a great transition, a great time. That drive in me is not quite there, and I want to make sure that I end it with giving the sport everything that I’ve given in the past and that it has given me. It just seems like it’s a fitting moment for me.”
A two-time NFCA All-America selection and two-time Big Ten Player of the Year at Michigan, Chidester (known to one and all as “Chiddy”) played professionally with the Chicago Bandits and the Scrap Yard Dogs while also playing for Team USA. She and her teammates won a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics, held last year in Tokyo. She also is a five-time medalist in the World Cup of Softball.
When AU came along two years ago, it was a perfect fit for her. “It’s been awesome; it’s given more opportunity to play,” she said. “Any chance we can play and compete at the highest level is so rewarding, so amazing. It’s huge for the sport. It’s huge for us. All of us at the professional level just love competing. We’ve been tossed around here and there, and I feel Athletes Unlimited has been something secure for us the last three years, and that’s special. I’m forever grateful for that.
“Everything that Athletes Unlimited represents is really player driven and player focused. It’s pretty awesome, and it’s going to be huge for women to be able to stay in the game as long as they’d like.”
Chidester had no doubts the new venture would take off because of its core principles and how they were put into practice.
“From the beginning, you could tell that everything was done at the highest professional level,” she said. “They treated us like professionals right from the start. It was, ‘Wow, they’re really serious about this and they really want to take this and run with it.’ So no, I didn’t have doubts because after that first year and how they made it work during COVID. It’s like, ‘They’re serious. They want to do this.’ And they really showed that they could, and they continue to do it.”
How Chidester became the first overall No. 1 pick is one of those stories that can be summed up in four words: only in Athletes Unlimited. After preseason scrimmages before Season 1, pitcher Haylie Wagner earned enough individual and team points to be named captain of Team Gold, assuring her of the first pick of the weekly draft.
Wagner, a left-handed pitcher, was a teammate of Chidester’s for one year at Michigan. She used that first pick to take her onetime college mate. On draft day, Chidester responded playfully when asked if there was any Wol verine bias in the selection.
“I don’t know,” she said. “You’ll have to ask Haylie that question.” Two years later, Wagner said there was much more to the selection than the Michigan sisterhood.
“It’s really awesome to have that opportunity and that experience and for her to trust me and for me to trust her and be able to draft those people that you’re confident with and you trust on and off the field,” she said. “It was Amanda Chidester because I knew I wanted her on my team. I wanted her to make a difference. I wanted her. I trusted her. I knew what she could bring to the table. And I knew she was going to give us that energy that we need on the field.”
In fact, Wagner says Chidester made an impression on her when she arrived at Michigan as a freshman and Chidester was a senior. The impact remains to this day.
“I was a very quiet, shy kid my freshman year,” Wagner said. “And she was this very bubbly, outgoing person. At first, it was very like, ‘Oh, my gosh.’ But she has such energy about her that I remember sitting there – and I’ve told her this; she knows this – my freshman year and we were voting on captains. She ended up being one of our captains. I wrote ‘Amanda Chidester’ on it. I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be her friend one day. Whether we continue on and talk after college or not, I want her to be one of my friends for the rest of my life.’ I am lucky enough to have that.
“She is the energetic, loving, happy, amazing personality, competitive per son on and off the field. She just drives you to be better. She’s only gotten better with that every single year. She helped me go from that quiet, shy freshman player to this confident, outgoing and competitive pitcher on the field.”
Fans coming out to the Parkway Bank Sports Complex in Rosemont will be able to hear Chidester above the crowd noise as she encourages and cajoles teammates while enjoying the game of softball. She gladly pleads guilty to being a vocal presence on the field.
“That’s definitely me,” she said. “It’s always been me. I’m passionate about the game. I love playing the game. I love cheering on my teammates. The little kid in me comes out when I get on the field. I love the energy. I just love bringing the energy for my teammates. I feel that’s a big role for me. I think that I’m good at it. And I like bringing that to the table every game.”
Spectators also should get a kick out of Chidester’s walk-up music: “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” Naturally.
“My nickname is ‘Chiddy,’ and it was at Michigan where I decided to do that,” she said. “The fans loved it. So I was like, ‘I’m just going to keep it.’”
As her career winds down, Chidester can walk away knowing that she en joyed her own “only in Athletes Unlimited” moment last year when she was able to draft her fiancée, Anissa Urtez, with a first-round pick. There were plenty of good softball reasons for that pick. Urtez was the GEICO Defen sive Player of the Year, and she batted .327 with one home run and 15 RBI. “Being able to draft Anissa, we’ve always played against each other, never really played with each other,” Chidester said. “I’m biased. She’s the best shortstop. I definitely want her on my team especially when she has that hot bat. It’s fun to play together. We always train together. It’s nice to bring it to the game, as well.”
Although there are games left to play, Chidester says she will stop and take things in as she completes her professional softball career.
“It’s a mixture of both,” she said of competing and reflecting. “I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself to perform, to where it’s not enjoyable. So I’m trying to find that balance of enjoying every single moment I have, but obviously as a competitor, I want to be the best. I’m going to find that balance to do both.
“The last four years of my career have been pretty amazing with all of the softball I have been able to play because it’s been really challenging. All of the levels have been challenging, and it’s constantly making me better. And I love that. So I feel my favorite has been the last four years of my career. It’s been the best.”
There is meaning in a name, especially to Odicci Alexander. As a kid, she often wondered why her mom gave her such a unique name but she’s learned that what lies in the significance of ‘Odicci’ has immense value to her.
That’s a large part of why changing the name and number on her jersey this Athletes Unlimited season is how she wanted to honor her late teammate and friend Lauren Bernett.
Bernett was a sophomore at James Madison University and starting catcher of the softball team. She died on April 25 and her death was later classified as an apparent suicide by Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office. The tragic loss of Bernett, affectionately known as “LB” to her friends and family, rocked everyone who knew her as well as the entire collegiate athletics community.
When Alexander enters the circle in her second season as a pro, she’ll be wearing #22 with the last name Bernett.
“I feel like it just means a lot to me because I feel like she’s gonna be there with me,” Alexander said.
Bernett was Alexander’s catcher during their historic 2021 run. They were the ultimate battery, leading the Dukes to a 41-4 record and first ever ap pearance in the Women’s College World Series.
They became quick friends, sparking a connection through the distinct relationship developed in a pitcher-catcher pair. Alexander didn’t know who would be her catcher going into her senior season with JMU. It was the freshman.
Both of them bought into one another. Alexander beams as she tells stories of not her best days with Bernett but the rough ones – the practices and bullpens when she didn’t know where the ball was going when it released from her hand.
“Lauren would do 360s for me,” Alexander laughs. She always had Alexander’s back. Bernett could know Alexander’s mood at practice before a word was ever spoken.
“She just knows and she was that person who could always make me laugh in those moments, you know? Some people can’t do that… but she knew how to approach me.”
During their time together, Alexander can’t remember a single day that Bernett didn’t make her smile. She recounts thinking that Lauren never had a bad day.
Alexander was competing for Toda Chuo Medics Saitama in the Japan Diamond Softball League when she received the crushing news. She said it was hard being a continent away, feeling like she couldn’t be there for her teammates, coaches, and friends who had the same pain crashing down on them. She felt alone.
Journaling has been a longtime habit of Alexanders that helped her throughout the months she was away. Seeing Bernett and #22 on her jersey hanging in her locker is another step in healing.
It’s not something she can explain but feels.
“I know she’s looking down at me. She’s smiling at me and I honestly just wanna make her proud. I mean some games I have where I’m like, oh it’s Lauren back there.”
Overnight Odicci became a household name in the softball world. But she’ll be quick to point out that being a pitcher is not her identity.
When you ask her about the meaning of her name, an odyssey is a journey. As Alexander continues her own she emphasizes that while she plays this game, it is about more than a bat and ball. Her road has brought her to know that “there is more to softball than just playing the sport.” “Everybody’s going through something. You always have someone you can talk to. You always have something that you can do.”
Courtney Gano turned the end of Athletes Unlimited AUX Softball into a grand finale.
That’s “grand” as in grand slam. That’s “grand” as in a walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning of the season’s final game.
Hitting a walk-off homer is the dream of every softball player and baseball player, and it came true for Gano on a June Saturday night in San Diego.
Gano already had hit one home run that night for Team Fischer against Team Zerkle in a game that was tied after seven innings. Both teams scored runs apiece in the eighth and ninth innings, and Team Zerkle forged ahead by a run in the top of the 10th. After Team Fischer scored a run to tie it in the bottom half, Gano ended it with a drive that disappeared into the south ern California night for a 10-6 victory.
“It was so fun,” she said in Rosemont while getting ready for Season 3 of Athletes Unlimited softball. “The team that I was on was just so fun, my teammates. We were kind of struggling to get a win and to get inning wins. It was really cool, especially because the first two weekends were a little bit of a struggle for me personally at the plate. I was trying to get into a routine. I kept saying, ‘Trust the process. Trust the process.’ I put the work in. So that game was really fun. I got two home runs. It was like it all paid off. I was just so happy that we could get some inning wins and a win under our belts.”
The best part may have been the welcoming committee that greeted her at home plate.
“Oh, I couldn’t wait to get in there and celebrate because it was such a long game and we had really, really close games and we just weren’t coming out on top,” she said. “So it was really, really cool. I think our team camaraderie was just amazing. When you have a really fun team, it makes it that much more special.”
Gano is hoping her walk-off heroics provide a grand segue into Season 3 of AU softball in Rosemont, but she’s doing so with a well-grounded sense of perspective. The former University of Washington player made her AU de but last year for Season 2. She had hoped to be among the early signees for the inaugural softball season in 2020, but a bigger blessing came along: her son Gregory.
Athletes Unlimited will be a family affair this season, with Gregory and Ga no’s husband, pro basketball player Abdul Gaddy, joining her in Rosemont. “I have a different mindset coming in this year,” Courtney said. “Last year, I really wanted to prove to myself that I could do it after having a baby. I was really proud to be a mom and come and play. I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity that AU gave us. I kind of came in with not very high expec tations. I didn’t have much time or the resources to train during the off-sea son because my husband was overseas during my training time during my off-season. It was maybe five times I got to go hit and bring Gregory with me. It wasn’t very much.
“This year we decided that we were going to have somebody help us, and I’ll get to go do my training. I trained at a place called Driveline in Wash ington (State). It’s pretty big time in baseball. I was going six days a week. I just got after it. So my expectations and my mindset coming in are a lot different. I’m just really ready to compete, and I’m not doing it just to say I’m here. So I’m feeling a lot better, just physically, mentally and my husband’s here, too, so he can help with Gregory. I’m really able to focus now.”
Gregory has become quite the star among Gano’s teammates, who play the role of doting aunts. Gano calls her son an “epilepsy warrior.”
“He has a rare genetic mutation; it’s something called pyridoxine-depen dent epilepsy, PDE,” she said. “It’s very rare. At one point we thought one in a million, but I think it’s 1 in 600,000. It took a few days to figure out. It was very traumatic, his first few days of life. He was having seizures. He stopped breathing, and I had to give him CPR at three days old.
“There was a lot that went down. We went to Seattle Children’s (Hospital), and they are incredible. They helped us so much. They figured out what it was very quickly. He’s been stable ever since. He takes medication five times a day. He’s on a special diet. This is a lifelong thing that we’ve planned for. We have the support we need, and he’s been thriving. There’s things that come with it. There are some developmental delays that can be expected, but we’ve had all the support we need. He goes to physical therapy. He has his neurologist. We have all those resources, and we’re really blessed.
“But it just makes him that much more special. If you meet him … he’s so special.”
The love has become a two-way street, with Gregory giving as much as he is getting.
“Last year was really special in that aspect, the support,” Gano said. “As the mother of a 1-year-old, I was still getting the hang of things, still breast feeding, still like, ‘I’m just trying to keep my head above water, really.’ To be here in this support system was incredible for me because I really needed that. It’s hard to be somewhat alone in that first year of motherhood. I really needed it. It was uplifting.
“Now it’s cool because he’s starting to learn the names of the girls. He knows Abby (Ramirez) and Haylie Wagner. He was saying, ‘Abbs, Abbs,’ for Abby. He gets to have his second birthday here. Hopefully we have a little celebration for him here with all the girls. It’s amazing.”
Athletes Unlimited’s policies regarding pregnancy and motherhood helped to attract Gano to the league in the first place more than two years ago. “I was really interested in the concept,” she said. “I got a call from (softball player) Gwen Svekis. I think they had four people signed at that point. It was right at the beginning of it. I was planning on being one of the first 10 to sign. That week was when I found out I was pregnant with Gregory. I looked at that as a motivation, at the timing. I was like, ‘Man, I wish I could have played,’ but there was nothing that was going to trump having Gregory. I was really excited. I got to watch that first season with Gregory in my arms, and I was like, ‘You know what? We’re going to be out there.’
“I love the idea of things. I love the investment that they’re making for AU. They do it the right way. It’s something different. The pregnancy policy is so different because I could never have even thought about having a baby (previously). I would not have been possible. They take care of our child care. They make it possible.”
Gano said she and her husband would love to serve and give back to their sports and communities after their playing days are over. Short term, she will look forward to playing softball without putting pressure on herself but with a renewed sense of self confidence after AUX.
“I think (goals) have changed a little bit since AUX because at AUX, I really came in just expecting to reap the benefits of the work that I put in,” she said. “I really am just wanting to enjoy the moment here, be patient with myself and give myself a little bit more grace. I have to understand that the game is very hard. I can’t expect to be successful all the time.
“It’s more so just enjoying. I’m at my best when I’m enjoying it and embrac ing my teammates and just living in the moment, at-bat to at-bat, those kinds of things.”
That’s the same advice she gives to young women and girls coming up in softball.
“We play a very, very hard sport,” she said. “And we really need to give ourselves grace. We can’t strive for perfection in this sport. Just take it as it is and trust the process of whatever’s happening, you’ve got to just trust it and know that there’s a plan. Just keep going.
“There were a lot of times when I thought I was done. I’m just solely talking about the sport right now. I thought I was done a lot of times. I’ve had four knee surgeries. I just kind of trusted it and kept going. If it’s meant to be, it’s going to be. There’s going to be a lot of opportunities and doors open whether that’s softball or outside of softball. Be nice to yourself.”
Life is a matter of give and take for Aly Harrell.
On the softball field, Harrell is not afraid to take what the pitcher is giving as evidenced by her gaudy on-base percentage at whatever level she has played. If that means taking a walk, so be it. If that means getting a big hit, even better.
Off the field, Harrell is filled with the spirit of giving. That spirit was reward ed this year when she was named the Senior CLASS Award winner. The CLASS (Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School) Award is presented to an NCAA Division I senior or graduate student who has “notable achievements in four areas of excellence: classroom, community, character and competition.”
Harrell is the first player from Marshall University to win the award. “I was surprised,” she said. “Knowing the other girls who were finalists for the award, I was very shocked. I told my coach (Megan Smith Lyon) when she called me, ‘No way, I’m shocked, I’m speechless.’ She was like, ‘I knew it. I’m not shocked at all.’ Just having that support of my coach and my teammates, that’s very fitting. It was great to see that my peers thought of me that way. To have the NCAA think of me in that light, it’s very honorable, and I’m so glad and grateful to have that award.”
Harrell shouldn’t have been surprised, based on her off-the-field activities and her volunteer work.
Her resume includes volunteering with Little League teams, Veterans Affairs hospitals, Hoops Children’s Hospital and being involved with the Marshall Sweetheart Clinic. That spirit, she says, has been with her all of her life.
“I think I’ve kind of always had it,” said the native of Gahanna, Ohio, outside of Columbus. “When I was young, my best friend and I would play like girls do, but we’d play things that would help people. We always went and looked for wild animals. I fostered a baby bird that fell out of the nest at one point. I was in Girl Scouts since I was in kindergarten. I still am a lifetime Girl Scout. That’s one I’d like to continue to give back to. I love it. It brings a joy to see that I’m making someone else’s day … I think that’s important, that everyone else can feel that type of love and passion in something. So I want to give that back.”
Harrell joined AU for AUX Softball in June after a prolific career at Marshall, where she was a five-year letter winner, compiling a .390 career batting av erage with 53 home runs and 220 RBI. She owns Thundering Herd records with 175 walks and a .562 on-base percentage.
She is the second player from Marshall in AU, joining outfielder Morgan Zerkle, one of the captains for Week 1 of AU Softball in Rosemont.
“I think just making a name at Marshall University, showing that there is talent in other schools other than just Power 5s bringing recognition to the school and growing the program there,” Harrell said.
As for her uncanny ability to get on base, she said it’s been with her for as long as she can remember.
“I went to hitting lessons a lot as a child,” she said. “A big thing as a lefty power hitter is the outside pitch. We drilled, drilled, drilled the outside pitch and being able to get to those pitches and also drilled being able to recognize what a ball was. I think something that helped me was being able to know that I can hit the ball but at the same time, I know it’s a ball when I’m swinging. As I grew up with my dad as my coach, he was always like, ‘Any way you can get on is a way to help our team win.’ I took that to heart. If that’s a base hit, if that’s getting walked, getting hit (by a pitch), I just embraced it the older I got.”
That approach didn’t stop at Marshall.
“When I got to college, our coaches were a lot more like, ‘We want people on base, we want to be able to score runs,’” she said. “With the eye I had, that’s something I bought into, being able to be a threat hitting wise and a threat with the fact that, ‘I’ll be on base.’
“I grew more into it and bought into it more. So now it’s something I em brace, and I love the fear (from the other team) of, ‘Oh, crap, we’re going to walk her.’ If they don’t want to walk me, they’re going to give me something to hit. But if they do want to walk me, I have confidence in my teammates behind me that they can hit me in. I’ve been blessed to have teams and teammates that could protect me in that kind of way, where I am on base and I can score at the same time.”
It helps that AU’s points-scoring system rewards all skill sets, whether it be power hitting, speed or the ability to coax walks and get on base.
“Yes, I love that aspect where every little thing is accounted for and every little thing is cherished,” Harrell said. “I think that’s really big because steal ing bases is important, getting people in scoring position. It’s kind of more inclusive that way. It allows for the fast triple threats like Morgan (Zerkle) to be able to succeed. It allows the power hitters as well. On top of that, it allows pitchers to succeed because they’re getting points for every out. I think it’s really cool they were able to design it in a way that everyone can thrive and that it can be anyone’s ballgame for a winner at the end of it.”
Like all the players in Athletes Unlimited, Harrell is playing for a cause. Hers is Play Like a Girl, an organization “on a mission to level the playing field by leveraging the skills girls gain from sport to propel young women into competitive, male-dominated careers in STEM+ (science, technology, engineering, math).”
“I picked it because I am a woman in STEM, and I eventually want to be a doctor after I’m done playing,” she said. “Growing up, there weren’t many female doctors. Now there are a lot more, and there’s a lot more females in STEM jobs, and I think that’s great … I loved when (AU) sent me the causes list. That was one of the first ones I opened. I was like, ‘Yes.’ It had what I wanted. It wants to empower girls to play sports and find love in sports and be able to carry that into becoming a STEM major and going into a STEM field.”
During any Athletes Unlimited Game, you can find Harrell cheering on and encouraging her teammates when she is not in the game. It’s something she hopes young women and girls see and take with them.
“I just worked the Mizuno camp. That was the big thing I emphasized to them: energy goes so noticed. We notice the little things you do – your little frowns, your little smiles, how you interact with others. Those are big things. That just shows your passion for the game. That’s a big thing for me, my energy and my passion, and I love cheers. That’s how I show my passion for the game. Just being a good teammate.
“Something I’m working on now is not looking to the future too much, kind of living in the moment and loving the moment now … I’m here, and I’m taking every day one at a time. I’m grateful for each moment and taking it in. It’s just a breath of fresh air each day. I love that and just being grateful for where you are, where your feet are and being where your feet are. That would be one thing I would love to tell young girls: be where your feet are.”
In 2016, Kiki Stokes was drafted sixth overall in the National Pro Fastpitch College Draft by the Scrap Yard Dawgs, the highest draft pick in Nebraska softball history. Since then, a lot has changed.
Her jersey says Stokes-O’Connor now (she got married in June), she moved back home to Kansas City, Missouri (she’s the new head coach of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Softball), and she’s an Athletes Unlimited Softball athlete.
In just a month, all three of these life changes occurred, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.
As she embarks on a new chapter of her career in softball, she’ll close out her journey as a player. The 2022 Athletes Unlimited Softball season will be Stokes-O’Connor’s last as a pro as she commits to investing in and building the Kansas City Softball program. We spoke to Stokes-O’Connor about the dreams she’s accomplished throughout her life and the ones yet to come.
Savanna Collins: The last time you competed was with This Is Us and then Alliance to help prepare Team USA for the Olympics over a year ago. As you were coaching, did you still have that itch saying you weren’t done quite yet?
Kiki Stokes-O’Connor: A lot of people were kind of shocked after finding out that I was playing AU because I was kind of non-existent for a year. After the whole This Is Us thing, I feel like I didn’t really get to end on my terms. Softball’s been such a big part of my life, especially being a professional. I’ve taken a lot of pride in being able to have that opportunity because not everybody gets it. I think I’ve just had a sour taste in my mouth and I was like, “I wanna finish on my terms and be able to go out in a really good way.”
With how much good stuff I had heard about [Athletes Unlimited] and the people, I knew it’s gonna be a really good place for me to be able to end my career on a high note and be able to have fun with it as well.
SC: So you expect this will be your last season playing?
KSO: This is probably gonna end up being my last season only because coaching is something that I’ve become very, very passionate about. It’s hard, especially being at the Division I level and being a head coach. There are a lot of things, whether it’s the recruiting aspect or making sure your kids are taken care of. I’ll be able to hang it up because I’m still close to the game. But I also wanna start a family. I’m closing one door and taking the next door that’s open a little bit more seriously.
SC: You’re closing this chapter on ‘Kiki Stokes: the athlete:’ and continu ing as a coach. Looking back on you as the player, what do you hope your legacy is?
KSO: I hope the legacy that I left with Kiki as a player is that she gave everything. She loved hard love whether that was the people, whether that was the game in itself. And truly just enjoyed being in moments that maybe everybody didn’t get to experience. And on top of that, I guess just being the player that was not only a really good teammate but just a good person. And people could say that she was always a good person.
SC: Thinking about that next door, when you started out as an assistant at South Dakota State and then moved into a head coach position at Upper Iowa, what is it about this aspect of the game that really pulls you in?
KSO: I knew I wanted to be a head coach going into South Dakota State; I just didn’t know when it was going to be. Being able to build relationships with players is by far my favorite part of the game. Being a player’s coach and being able to connect with them on a different level is something that I’m very passionate about.
I also see that these kids need something a little bit different. The way that I was coached, it’s a lot different from what these kids need now. I want to be the game changer for them and help them find their way through life. A lot of times people think coaching is so black and white: you’ve gotta be able to teach them how to hit a ball and field the ball, but there’s so much more to that. And if you can get that ‘more’ they’ll go above and beyond for you.
There are a lot of kids that aren’t having fun with the game anymore, and it’s kind of sad, but that’s the part that I’m like, ‘I can bring that back. I can bring that fun piece back.’ That is the part that like makes kids want to love softball and want to play.
SC: That’s so exciting… You can take the positives of your experiences to replicate and the things that you look back on and wish were different you can change for this next group of athletes.
KSO: Right, exactly. Because I think for me, softball was always an outlet. It was never something that I was like hitting a ball and catching a ball – I was passionate about that – but it went beyond. It was what my coaches did for me and how they impacted my life and what my friendships meant to me. Those were the things that I think that I remember a little bit more than the actual physical aspect of the game. And so to give that to somebody else, I think is why I really love coaching.
SC: Your journey as a coach took you to SDSU as an assistant for three years then a successful head coaching experience at Upper Iowa Univer sity. What makes this next experience so special?
KSO: I haven’t been home since high school so being able to be in Kansas City with my family, with my friends, I think it’s something that I never would’ve ever imagined. I didn’t think that I would be a head coach for a year and then get a job opportunity like this at a D-I school and a great con ference. On top of that, my husband gets the job at the same place as well, he’s a strength coach. Us coaching under the same roof, it’s just rare. You don’t ever really see that. Both of us are literally living a dream. It’s such a blessing and we’re so grateful for it. It’s so cool to see how everything can change in a span of a month.
SC: As you look back on your dreams that you realized, what is the next dream? Are you in it right now?
KSO: I was telling my husband this the other night I used to journal a lot. Before I got to South Dakota State, there were probably eight different schools that I had applied to and got denied. And I was like, ‘Dang…I really want to coach, but when is that opportunity gonna come for me?’ And it came first at SDSU with Krista Wood and it was the best experience that I had ever had in my life. And I said, ‘This is exactly where I’m supposed to be.’
I’d never imagine myself being at a D-II school but that was something in my journey that I needed to be where I am today. Sometimes you don’t really know what path you’re going to go on, but you take opportunities, you build, you learn, and you grow from those.
My biggest dream is to be back at Nebraska which is my alma mater. That’s the place where I fell in love with softball to a whole other end. I had coach es there that completely formed me as a person. And so for me, that’s the goal. That’s the dream.
I’ve always had big dreams and goals of being a coach at the Power Five level. I thought I wasn’t gonna be a head coach until I was in my thirties with kids. And here we are 28, no kids. I’m living a dream.
Writing things down and watching things manifest is something that I’ve learned and that I’ve gotten a little bit more used to. It’s good and bad: when you look back at things that you wrote down and then you achieve ’em, it’s this feeling of, ‘Dang, I really put my mind to something and I ac complished it.’ On the negative side, when you have big dreams and goals it’s super important not to get discouraged when things aren’t happening at your pace because they very well could happen.
From A to Z. It’s a catch phrase that denotes completeness or totality.
For Athletes Unlimited softball, we can expand that phrase to “from A to Zerkle.”
Meet outfielder Morgan Zerkle.
Now in her third championship season in Rosemont, Ill., Zerkle has become the embodiment of the complete and consistent player, one who has grown into a multifaceted force on the field, one who can score offensive points in every way possible.
Two years ago, this product of Marshall University introduced herself to AU and quickly made a name for herself with her on-base ability and speed on the basepaths.
Then in 2021, along came the power. After not hitting a home run in Season 1, Zerkle homered in the first game of Season 2 on her way to hitting four for the season to go along with a .300 batting average and six stolen bases in six attempts. Those totals enabled her to finish sixth on the individual leaderboard for two seasons in a row.
That upward growth curve continued this summer during AUX Softball in San Diego, where Zerkle batted .385 with a .467 on-base percentage and a home run to finish fourth on the board.
The arrow continues to point up as Season 3 in Rosemont is in full swing.
“I’ve had a really good start to the season,” she said. “I think that playing in AUX really helped because it was kind of like a spring training. I also got to be a captain there as well, so it kind of prepared me for the first week here. I’m just seeing it well. Very familiar, obviously, with the third season being here (in Rosemont). It’s been a good start.
“The last three years, I think, it’s really grown because of the environment here. It is very individual, but it’s also very team based. It’s cool to see how if you perform, you get a shot. I’ve been able to perform and get a shot because there are no coaches involved. It’s who’s doing well. From my first season, where I slapped a lot, to my season last year where I hit several home runs and this year kind of having a mix of both worlds, but just being really comfortable. And this environment has been fun for me to grow and be more comfortable throughout. It’s fun.”
What’s more, Zerkle found herself one of the four team captains to begin this season in Rosemont.
“It was fun because I joke that I’ve always been the ‘first loser,’” she said. “I hadn’t medaled or been a captain. So it was fun to be in that leadership role and combine my abilities as a coach with being a player.”
Born and raised in Milton, West Virginia, Zerkle stayed in-state for college and became one of the most productive players in Marshall history. She fin ished her collegiate career atop Marshall’s record books in batting average (.451), triples (14) and stolen bases (162) while ranking second in slugging percentage (.594), on-base percentage (.489), runs (181), hits (289) and total bases (381).
In AU, with so many players from Power 5 conferences, Zerkle takes immense pride in repping a mid-major college program. She is joined this season by fellow Marshall alum Aly Harrell.
“That’s something I take a whole, whole, whole lot of pride in, just that you can do that,” she said. “You don’t have to play at a Power 5 to be able to compete at a high level. This is my sixth year now out of college playing pro so it’s a lot easier now than it was right out. Your confidence isn’t always as high when you are a mid-major athlete right out, trying to get your footing in the pro world. But I’ve stuck to my own every year.
“I feel like I’m finally at a place where I’m not the mid-major kid anymore that really has to prove themselves over and over again, proving myself. So it’s nice to relax and be able to say, ‘Yeah, look what I have done.’”
Zerkle’s numbers in college suggested she would hit for power as a pro. That came to the fore last season. It also doesn’t hurt that AU’s individual points-scoring system places a premium on hitting home runs.
“Just being confident in using it more,” she said of her power stroke. “Being as fast as I am, slapping is kind of easy. It’s an easy choice to have, to make sure I make contact. But here, with the points system, you get 40 points if you hit a home run, so it’s kind of encouraged me to swing more because I’m capable and I have the power so why not go for 40 points versus going for 10 points? It’s definitely encouraged me to be more powerful and use that skill set.”
Of course, with singles, doubles, triples and stolen bases being rewarded, Zerkle had no problem piling up points during her first two seasons, even without hitting a home run.
“I think it shows the value of every person and their skill set and what they can bring to a team, having that table-setter type of hitter, having the home run kind of hitter,” she said. “The game shows how valuable it is to have a catcher who can call a good game. I think that’s something that gets over looked. I think in AU, you can see a lot of those skill sets shine when it’s so player led in every little thing and in every little moment and pitch matters.”
Zerkle is hoping her career-long consistency pays off in another climb up the leaderboard this summer.
“I want to stay consistent again, maybe not be the first loser, but maybe win it,” she said of the top spot on the board. “That’s always the goal, to win it. I think people are afraid to say it, but of course I want to win. Who doesn’t? But most of all, be consistent and be a little more of a leader this year because I am six years into playing and have that experience here at AU. So being able to mentor people like Aly Harrell to make my mark on the league as well.”
Still young (27 on Aug. 12), Zerkle has plenty of softball left in her. This season she is playing for the Natasha Watley Foundation, which “provide(s) programs for girls in historically marginalized communities to expose them to the beautiful game of softball.”
Her spirit of mentoring has led her into coaching. For the past several years, she has been an assistant coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. “I love coaching, and I think I’m going to do it as long as I can, forever prob ably,” she said. “I’ve gotten several offers for different jobs this year, but I’m very passionate about coaching those mid-major kids. I think that’s hard for some people to understand, but that’s what I’m most passionate about. I don’t know if I’ll move up in coaching, but I love coaching, and that’s defi nitely what I’m going to do forever.
“Playing wise, I think I’m just now getting to the top of, or even close to, my peak of where I could be. I think I was not as developed, even out of college, as some of the other players, so as long as I’m still improving, getting better and healthy, I’m going to keep playing. I have no intention of stopping any time soon.”
The road to Athletes Unlimited Softball for Andrea Filler has taken her around the world, gotten her in touch with her ancestral roots and been culturally enriching.
This summer, it landed her right at home in Evanston, Illinois, just a long flyball from Parkway Bank Sports Complex in Rosemont.
The 29-year-old Filler finally got her first chance to play for AU in June, when she finished an impressive seventh on the leaderboard in San Diego. She got off to a strong start in the Championship season in Rosemont, where she has fit right in with players she has competed with and against for years, whether it be in college, the professional ranks or as a member of Team Italy in last year’s Olympic Games.
“It’s been a really fun time, just to have the opportunity to play with all of the players who are in the league who I have played against my entire career,” she said. “I think my favorite part about it is getting to know people personally. You get to know them as a competitor, so you start to formulate, ‘Oh, they must be like this or like that, their personality must be a certain way based on the way they compete on the field.’
“Then you meet them off the field, and it’s like, ‘Wow, it’s really great to know them,’ and learn about their past and their path to softball. Everybody has a unique journey. So it’s been really fun.”
Athletes Unlimited is the current way station for Filler, a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana. After she played two years of college softball at Boston College, she transferred to Northwestern, also in Evanston, where she ob tained her bachelor’s degree in communications and her master’s in sports administration before earning a School of Professional Studies certificate in leadership and marketing. She worked as director of operations for North western’s softball and field hockey programs from 2018-21.
Filler played professionally for the Chicago Bandits of National Pro Fast pitch and as a pro in Italy while trying to obtain Italian citizenship (through her maternal great grandmother) so she could become eligible for the Italian national team.
Along the way, she was able to enjoy, soak up and taste the culture of Italy. “I grew up in a very traditional Italian home, so we have a lot of the same customs that you see in Italy,” she said. “That was really fun and comforting for me, a lot of the stuff that I was used to in my home, like sitting down as a family for a meal and staying at the table from dinner through dessert through coffee.
“Just to learn more personally about the culture of Italy. It’s completely different than our lifestyle. There’s no one right or wrong way to live. I think it makes you appreciate their lifestyle. Over there it’s not so work centric. It gives me good perspective. It gave me really good perspective of work is work, invest your time in your people. That’s one thing I always carry with me from my time over there.”
It took some legal wrangling for Filler to obtain Italian citizenship. She had to win a court case that challenged Italian law saying citizenship could only be passed down on the male side of a family. Having succeeded in that, Filler was able to represent Italy in the Olympics.
“It was an extremely unique experience,” she said. “I’ve played a lot of softball games, a lot of tournaments … But I think that setting in itself was so unique. You’re playing at the highest level, and you’re representing some thing that’s more than yourself, as well. You’re representing for your country and for your heritage, and I think that gives you more meaning behind the games you’re playing, every pitch that you’re playing. And for the sport, as well, to be playing softball when the sport was taken out of the Games for 12 years, 13 years. It meant a lot to be that person in that position to be playing on that stage, representing our sport at that level.”
While playing for Team Italy, Filler was teammates with Erika Piancastelli and Greta Cecchetti, both of whom play for AU.
“It’s so great,” she said. “I think the one hard part about playing overseas when you live here permanently and are from here is you build great friendships with your teammates and for me personally, I live there for three or four months at a time, and then I come back home. It’s hard when you’re not with each other all the time. You kind of get ripped from that setting, and you have to try to stay connected somehow.
“It’s just really cool that they’re both here now. The three of us have shared so much, the good and the bad through this journey together. So it’s really cool to be playing here together but also doing it together and represent ing Italy softball here on this stage and showing everybody from Europe and from Italy that this is something that’s attainable, too, to play on this stage. It’s always great to do it with teammates you’ve gone to battle with before.”
With her love for softball as alive as ever after the Olympics, Filler kept AU in her sights. After some persistent knocking at the door, it finally opened.
“The past two years, I was a replacement player, but I was pursuing making the Italian national team final roster,” she said. “Some of the requirements to be on the Italian national team was to play in the pro league in Italy. That was my main focus. I was a replacement player, so if somebody got COVID or somebody got hurt, they would maybe call me in. But I was overseas, so it was a little difficult to make my way over here if I did get the call. It didn’t end up happening.
“Every year I reached out to whoever was on the PEC (Player Executive Committee) that year and let them know that I was interested in playing. I did the same thing after I finished the season in Italy, which ended in Octo ber. I took a little bit of a break and then reached out to PEC members and told them that I would be interested in playing in the league, to consider me. They contacted me right around May and asked me if I’d be interested in playing. I was like, ‘Absolutely.’”
Even with a seventh-place finish in AUX, Filler was not setting specific goals for Championship season.
“Honestly, I didn’t come in with any expectations of, ‘I’ve got to finish in top five,’ or anything like that,” she said. “I wanted to get comfortable on the field as quickly as possible. In any new setting, especially in a really competitive setting, it’s kind of hard to settle in and feel yourself right away. My No. 1 goal was I want to come in and get comfortable, get my feet underneath me. At AUX, I ended up finishing seventh, and that was great. I was very happy with that. But the competitor in me was like, ‘I know I can do better.’
“For this one (Championship season), I want to compete every at-bat. I want to win every pitch. I like to keep my mindset more on the things I can con trol and the things that I can keep within myself. So just being competitive with every pitch, every at-bat, playing hard every time.
“And lastly, being a great teammate and showing people who I am as a per son and letting people get to know me, being open, vulnerable and forming some great relationships. I think at the end of the day we’re all out here trying to do the same thing, which is to grow our sport and to put the best product on the field every day. I think one thing that’s really fun about AU is we play with different teams every week. We get to know different people every week. I’ve really enjoyed that experience of getting to know different people and growing relationships that way.”
The journey is far from over for Filler, who won’t be 30 until February. Amid all of the travel and all of the softball over the past few years, she has made sure to take the time to reflect on all of the places she has been and all of the faces she has seen.
“Especially after the Olympics, you kind of settle down back at home and you start to think about, ‘Wow, what did I just do?’,” she said.” The Olympics was such a fast time because when we got there, we spent some time practicing in Japan and we had the week of the games and then we had to leave right away. So it was like a whirlwind time. It was really fast.
“Once I got home, I kind of settled down. I was like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe, No. 1, that I just played in the Olympics and was in Japan playing at the highest level of the game.’ Then you start to think back about your career. I started playing in a Little League and I didn’t know where softball would take me. I was just playing, and it was fun. I’ve gone through all these differ ent stages and played at different levels.
“You sit down and think, ‘What more is there? What more could there be?’ And this (Athletes Unlimited) kind of falls in your lap and you’re like, ‘OK, this is incredible,’ just continuing to play the game at the highest level. It’s an honor for me to be able to do that, but I think the coolest part for me is how it’s brought my family together and for me, playing on the national team, it made me feel really connected to my extended family members in Italy, especially my great grandmother, who I didn’t get a chance to meet. I just felt really connected to her … The fact that I got my citizenship through her was a really cool thing for me. I’m really connected to her through that.”
To watch Aubrey Leach on the softball field is to watch a player who looks like she’s making up for time missed.
There’s a kinetic urgency to Leach’s game, whether she’s spraying and slapping hits all over the field, running the bases with abandon or flashing leather at second base.
Leach is back with Athletes Unlimited after missing the 2021 season. But let’s not mistake time missed for time wasted, because Leach was in noble pursuit. After playing in the 2020 season and finishing 17th on the individ ual leaderboard, Leach stepped away from AU last year to study law at the University of Tennessee, where she starred on the softball diamond for the Volunteers.
The door was left open for Leach’s return this season, and she burst through. Entering the final weekend of the Championship season, Leach ranks 17th on the leaderboard, up three spots from last weekend. She is 13for-35 (.371) at the plate with a .450 on-base percentage. More importantly, she’s relishing her time back on the field.
“I’m so glad to be back,” she said. “It was a really strange break. I loved supporting, but I was also kind of jealous to see everyone playing and I was in law school. The season (last year) being in the fall conflicted with the fall semester, so I just wasn’t able to be here last season. But now that they’ve moved it more into the summer, I’m here and I’m hoping they keep it that way and I can be back next year, too.
“It was so tough to watch because I wanted to be out there. Being on the GA/coaching side, it’s kind of hard to sit on that side of the fence. And then to see all my professional peers playing, too, it was itching me to be back on the field. They said I was always welcome. They’ve given me everything I could have asked for in support for my decision to go to law school. It was really nice to be welcomed back. As soon as I saw the schedule change, I shot them an email, and they were like, ‘Yes, please come.’”
The fall session of law school for Leach has begun, but she is able to Zoom classes before she has to head back to school in person. She has become an expert at balancing all she has going on in life.
“It’s been a lot,” she said. “I was really excited the first four weeks here; I didn’t have any school. It was freedom, just being able to play and get out there and grind when I needed to grind and not have any worries that I was spending too much time at one place or the other, so it was nice.”
Being a longtime student-athlete has helped Leach budget her time and juggle softball and law school.
“Definitely,” she said. “Being able to work together, being able to communi cate. Time management is huge. I think I was at a great advantage already being a student-athlete having to study and play at the same time. And now, I think it’s helped me so much. I don’t have that learning curve that a lot of people do just with the demand of law school.”
Aubrey Leach is carrying on quite the heritage in diamond sports. She was coached extensively by her dad, Todd, whose own father, Lynn, played fastpitch softball. Todd’s mother, Wilma Ann Williams-Leach, was a member of the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, immortalized in the movie, “A League of their Own.”
On a wall in the concourse of the Parkway Bank Sports Complex in Rose mont is a tribute to Williams-Leach. Included is a quote from her, which reads: “Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.”
The display also includes photos of Leach and her grandmother, with a touching inscription from Aubrey: “Wilma Ann Williams-Leach was at the forefront of competitive women’s sports. She blazed a trail, excelling at multiple sports, and making a name for herself as a true athlete. As my Grandmother she has always been an influence on our family and a driving force behind our love for Softball. Without women like Wilma Ann Wil liams-Leach, I would not have the opportunity to compete today. We stand on her shoulders.”
Leach did not get to meet her grandmother, her inspiration resonates. “Huge,” she said. “And I don’t think I always knew it. She has definitely trick led down through our family. My dad’s side is very athletic, but he always instilled her trailblazing nature of, ‘Just go do it. If you’re passionate about it and you think this is your right direction, just go do it.’ That was kind of her m.o. She loved sports. She played volleyball in high school, but as soon as the (baseball) tryout (came), she grabbed her brother and went. That’s something that I’ve been able to take and just go, go do it. And then the passion. I think we all have her softball in our family. That comes from her.”
Leach says she has not yet watched the new series of the same name on Amazon Prime, but she has heard about her grandmother’s reaction to the movie, “A League of their Own.”
“I have always been told that she used to joke that the part in the movie where they sneak out and go dancing, and she’s like, ‘Oh we never did that.’ She had to have appreciated how much detail they did in the movie,” she said.
With a refreshed spirit, Aubrey Leach is enjoying life at Athletes Unlimited and its player-driven environment.
“I feel like a true professional here,” she said. “They treat us with such respect. They give us so much freedom, but I think that’s also what comes with the territory of being a professional – you’re on your own, you’re training on your own, you’ve got to know what you need and then to add in the coaching aspect from the four captains each week. I think that’s a huge step in the right direction for softball.”
Unlike two years ago, when the onset of COVID-19 kept fans away from the ballpark, this season has been a revelation for Leach, who gets to ply her trade in front of enthusiastic spectators.
“It’s been great, not only to see people inspired by us, but also to be inspired by them, coming out and their dedication to the sport,” she said. “I’ve had people from Tennessee here. It’s just wild to see how well softball travels and how important our game is to people.”
The future may hold a career in contract law for Leach so she can remain in sports – she has been shadowing sports-agent contract lawyers – but whatever that future holds, softball will be a part of it.
“I’m not ready to give it up,” she said. “The first season of not playing col lege ball and having to sit and wait for the pro season, I was dying because I had always been used to softball all year round. So it’s definitely been a big change. I want as much of it as I can get.
“Softball has taken me so many places I would have never gone. It’s earned me not only an undergrad education but now a law degree. I couldn’t have even seen that as a possibility when I was that 10-year-old picking up a softball.”
Covering Athletes Unlimited Softball in Rosemont, Ill. this weekend was a dream come true. Having the opportunity to connect with and learn from some of the best players in the world is incomparable. Heading into the weekend, I didn’t know what to expect. I have watched every AU game that I could in between travel softball and school ball. This was the first women’s professional sports venue I had the opportunity to experience live and in person.
As a teenage writer for Sports Illustrated Kids and mlb.com, I have always loved to highlight women in sports as we continue to create more equality across the board. But experiencing AU for myself as a writer was something so unique and special that I hadn’t been a part of before. AU has a unique scoring system that highlights the importance of every play. It is not only team driven, but also individually driven with points awarded based on of fensive plays (single, double, triple, home run, stolen base, caught stealing, walk, hit by pitch, and sacrifice fly/bunts), pitching points (earned runs and outs), MVP points (voted on by the players at the end of every game), and team/inning wins.
The AU hashtag #BeUnlimited truly sums up the vision that its founder Jon Patricof had – to see racial, gender, and income equality across profession al sporting events. To see fans come out to support 60 of the top female athletes in the world is incredible. The number of fans will only grow as the level of competition continues to rise at AU and the fan base expands in more sites across the country.
Janae Jefferson, four-time All-American at Texas, talked about what the transition from college to pro was like for her.
“It is a big jump just being out here with all of these professional athletes. Everybody is good out here, and I feel like that was the biggest jump I had was just realizing that everyone is amazing, pitching is better, and the speed of the game is different,” Jefferson said.
One of the highlights of my experience was meeting so many new faces. I had the chance to shadow Savanna Collins and Ci Michel (a former Great Britain volleyball Olympian), two leaders on the media side, and see their perspectives from the dugout, field, stands, and concourse. I spoke with Danielle Lawrie, a Canadian softball Olympian from Tokyo 2021, who has been a guest on my Speak Up Sports podcast, after she called one of the games. Collins took me to the dugout, a view I had never experienced before while reporting. Michel interviewed me; I’m rarely on the side of receiving questions! After every game, I had the chance to meet, interview, and talk with all of these incredible athletes.
Some of my favorite interviews from the weekend were with outfielder Aliyah Andrews, catcher Savannah Jaquish, and infielders Sis Bates and Si erra Romero. I loved learning strategy from them and talking to the game’s best athletes, especially when they were as down to earth as they were. Whether they were in the dugout, signing autographs after every game, or talking with the crowd in the on-deck circle, these ladies were engaging, encouraging, and passionate.
When speaking with the AU players, who represented four of the six coun tries from the last Olympics (USA, Canada, Italy, and Mexico) about what they like most about Athletes Unlimited, their reasons were very similar to mine. They all loved the people at AU. The player-first environment focuses not only on the athlete but also on the person as a whole which offers a unique facet of AU.
“My favorite part of it is the people, the environment, and the staff. Every single person here is so amazing. They make me feel like a true pro and I’m just so grateful for the environment they provide us with because these girls are awesome,” Romero said.
During this five-week season, all of the players practice at an indoor turf facility covered by a dome during the week and warm up there before their games. The dome is where the weekly Monday drafts are held, where the athletes’ locker rooms are, and where they can take batting practice. It was fun getting to see the home of where these professional players spend most of their time during their summer season.
All in all, my first weekend at AU Softball was filled with so many amazing memories. The games were filled with lots of scoring, stellar plays, and more! I love the fact that every play and every inning can impact the leader board standings. I can’t wait to see who will come out on top at the end of the season!
On paper, Bubba Nickles’ production and performance as a softball player look similar to the success that is a recurrent part of her journey.
As a late-comer last year, she took the first pitch she saw as an Athletes Unlimited player for long. She’s a medal-winning member of Team USA and an NFCA All-American at UCLA.
But if you ask her, she’s different. At practice, in the dugout. She’s been working on an aspect of her game that isn’t a drill or reps taken in the cage. Nickles has been developing the courage to ask questions, and it’s made all the difference for her.
When she arrived at AU last season, she was late to the party. She flew in ahead of Week 3 as a replacement player and recalls the experience feeling daunting. She tried to quickly acclimate to the schedule, changing teams, and pace of the league.
“I feel like learning to ride the waves is what makes it a good process,” Nickles said. “It’s not easy, but it does benefit all of us.”
Before arriving in Rosemont, she played for the Toyota Red Terriers of the Japan Diamond League in 2022. Her prep for this season consisted of one key thing: rest.
“My preparation was rest and not even touching a softball because I feel like distance makes the heart grow fonder,” Nickles explained. “It allowed me to come in here a lot more excited and embrace it more.”
Nickles was determined to be less of what she describes as “standoffish” compared to last year and not let intimidation keep her from making more connections. Being drafted to Team Chidester in Week 1 really helped with that.
She’s played with Amanda Chidester on Team USA and leaned into the welcoming environment Chidester creates on her teams with her fiancee Anissa Urtez.
“Together, they open up this dynamic where they want to grow others around them,” Nickles explained. “It’s really cool because it’s like two is better than one. Them being on the same team really opens up… They feel like they’re getting their cup poured into even more because both of them are willing to help so many people.”
This dynamic set Nickles on the journey of asking questions.
Can you help me with this at bat? What pitches are you seeing? What do you think is best?
She started to go to Urtez and Chidester, as well as other veterans in the league like Hannah Flippen, to help her step into the box with more inten tion.
“Sometimes I’m brutally like, ‘Straight up, what should I swing at?’ Having the boldness of approaching someone with: I need help. Can you help me with this at bat?”
The veterans have helped give her confidence through their answers. Not only have they told her what they think she should take a swing at, but they’ve helped Nickles understand her strengths and how to take advan tage of them at the plate.
“They believe in me enough to just give me a pitch and they know, ‘I told her to hit it and I know she will hit it.’ So that’s your plan.”
It’s not always easy to work up the courage to ask. Nickles knows that in the moments you’re experiencing the high and lows of a game the time might not feel right. “I know that when I strike out, I don’t wanna talk about it.”
But what she’s learned through the camaraderie that AU fosters is that’s what a lineup is about: all nine players trying to help the next one get on base, regardless of individual outcomes.
It’s how they win innings and games and ultimately, climb the leaderboard.
“I wanna be mentored by them. It does take a lot of courage and boldness, but it really is fulfilling when you [know] they believe in me because they gave me an answer,” Nickles laughed.
When she self-reflects on who she is as a professional in her second sea son, it’s a contrast to who she was in college.
“I was just constantly wanting to swing a bat 500 times, throw a ball 500 times, get as many reps and, if possible, do it alone,” Nickles recalls. “And then in a game, be absolutely silent.”
Now she does much less in practice, focusing on quality time. She explains that she does not go to practice to work for an outcome.
“I’m gonna come here practicing out of gratitude for being here and live into the blessing that all of this is.”
Nickles gave the example of hitting well over the course of a weekend and then not feeling inclined to put in more time. Then if you struggle, overcom pensating with dozens of reps.
“Where’s the consistency of that?” she asked.
Back in Week 1, Nickles went 2-for-3 with a double, home run, and four RBIs. In her postgame interview, she talked about being herself, trusting God, and trusting the process. She expanded on exactly what that means to her. It answers her previous question about consistency.
“Trusting the process is just not changing what I do depending on an out come,” she explained. “It’s having a consistent everyday. I’m meant to be here. So I’m gonna live into that.”
There’s less weight to succeed when she steps on the field now which in a way is ironic, considering the season she is having. Nickles is hitting over .300 with a slugging percentage of .571 and a walk-off hit in her record book.
Regardless of the results, she’s more fulfilled.
“I think that’s what softball does, it’s a mirror. It’s reflecting what you’re good at and what you’re weak at and where you can improve and where you can actually help others. Everything that we’re doing here is just self-reflective; we’re able to be better women to the world for it.”
Shannon Rhodes has let go of the player she was in college. The outfielder who started her career at Oregon and flourished as a Longhorn. The re cords set and accolades earned as a collegiate star. Even the mindset and routine – she’s left it behind.
There are moments when it’s been sad and not easy, but it’s made room for who she is now and who she has become: Shannon Rhodes, professional softball player and Athletes Unlimited 2022 Rookie of the Year.
Over the course of the year break she took from the sport, she took an important step in her journey to redefine who she is. She’d been a softball player for 10 years, since she was seven.
Rhodes needed to be something different and discover interests outside of the sport that dominated most of her life. When her career wrapped at Texas, she was confused about what she wanted to do next.
She was selected in the 2021 Athletes Unlimited Softball Draft with an open invitation to play. That seemed like the obvious next step, but it didn’t feel right for her – at least not yet.
“Being a collegiate softball player or athlete at all, you don’t really have too much time to explore those likes and dislikes so I didn’t have any intern ships under my belt, I didn’t have any extreme interests,” Rhodes said.
Nothing about her major was particularly calling her name – if anything, she majored in softball while at Texas.
So Rhodes packed it up in Austin and went back home to Fort Worth. She started a 9-to-5 recruiting in construction, making phone calls and hiring people for jobs. It was fulfilling for her to talk to people and build relation ships – that’s where she thrives. In fact, it was a great experience but, “I just didn’t feel like I was really maximizing my time for my potential,” Rhodes said.
During that time, Rhodes helped her dad coach a 14U team in the Texas Glory organization, the same one she played in during her travel ball career. She describes her experience working with the team as “refreshing” and that it made her feel like she was stepping back into their shoes, playing softball at that age.
All she wanted at 14 was to play Division I softball, go to the world series and win.
“It just kind of lit a flame under in me, I guess,” Rhodes explained. “That year was pretty much finding some passion, some love, some fire for it again.”
That reignition started a nagging feeling that she wasn’t done yet. The first step was a conversation with her dad. They sat down at dinner after one of the travel team practices and she threw the idea out there.
“I looked at my dad and I was like, ‘Hey, I think I might wanna play again.” She says her dad’s eyes grow wide, then he was giddy.
Not only did she want to play, but she wanted to make her family proud. Rhodes imagined looking into the stands and seeing her dad, mom, sister, grandparents, and great aunt watching her. She knew she had to play. She reached out to the Softball Player Executive Committee to see if the offer still stood to come to the league.
“I’m really grateful that the opportunity arose again. Not a lot of people get to go back on something that they declined in the past.”
Rhodes joined Athletes Unlimited for AUX in San Diego and continued her rookie year at Championship Season in Rosemont.
Her outstanding first year as a pro earned her the honors of 2022 Rookie of the Year, voted on by the player group. Through five weeks of competi tion, she was one of the most consistent hitters amongst the 60 athletes. She finished second in the league in home runs with eight and was the only player to have two multi-home run games in Season 3.
In 48 at-bats she logged a .375 average and .958 slugging percentage.
Her results at the plate skyrocketed since AUX and that’s no accident. During the break between seasons, it gave her time to reflect and reframe her perspective.
“I think AUX was 100% me trying to figure out who am I now as Shannon: as an athlete, as a softball player, as a professional,” Rhodes said. “I had the corporate professional down now I have to do the sport professional.”
During her first AU media day, Rhodes was asked to describe herself as an athlete. The question was so pointed to her experiences it brought on tears. The fear of letting go of who she was in college, and doubts if she was cut out for this level.
Her answer: “I don’t know, actually. That’s why I’m here. I’m here to figure that out.”
Approaching the end of her first summer of softball as a pro, that answer is starting to become more clear.
This Shannon Rhodes gives herself much more grace. She laughs at her mistakes and plays more freely. She fails but more importantly, she learns.
Looking back, she’s thankful for the gap year she took from the sport.
“I think that’s where rookies may struggle,” Rhodes confirmed. “It’s not knowing how to close the door on who you were, because you have to step out – through it.”
