AU Pro Softball signs pitcher Rachel Garcia for the 2024 Championship season

Savanna Collins

May 17, 2024

Athletes Unlimited Pro Softball has signed pitcher Rachel Garcia to compete in the 2024 Championship season in Rosemont, Illinois.

Garcia has consistently finished at the top of the leaderboard throughout her AU Pro Softball career. In her debut season in 2022, she finished second on the leaderboard at AUX, eighth at the 2022 Championship season, and in 2023 was crowned the AUX Softball champion.

At the 2023 Championship season, Garcia medaled again placing fourth overall. She is the second player in any AU sport to earn a medal in three seasons. Garcia was elite at the plate and in the circle. She set the league’s single-season record in stat points with 800 and had a league-high 280 MVP points.

At the plate, she ranked second in the league with a .675 slugging percentage and belted a league-best five home runs while adding 10 RBIs. As a pitcher, Garcia compiled a 5-3 record while fashioning a 2.45 earned run average in a league-high 54.1 innings. She recorded the highest number of strikeouts (66) and limited opposing batters to a .179 average. Garcia retired the side in order 15 times, which was tied with Megan Faraimo for the league lead.

Her career stats with the league include a .252 batting average, .504 slugging percentage, and 3.04 ERA.

Rachel Garcia threw the most innings of any pitcher and led the league with 5 homeruns… 🤯

The two-way player earned 376 more stat points than the next highest stat point earner on her way to a fourth place finish 🏅#AUSB x @raaaccchhheeell pic.twitter.com/dFSIFgP0g6

— Athletes Unlimited (@AUProSports) August 31, 2023

The fifth season of AU Pro Softball will return to Parkway Bank Sports Complex in Rosemont, Illinois this summer. Tickets for the Championship Season and AUX in Wichita, Kansas are on sale now.

Savanna Collins is the Senior Reporter at Athletes Unlimited. You can follow her on Twitter @savannaecollins.