Aubrey Leach

Personal: Leach majored in political science at Tennessee and is currently enrolled in law school at Tennessee while serving as a graduate assistant coach for the Lady Vols softball team. Her grandmother, Wilma Ann Williams-Leach, played professional baseball for the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Leach has a gecko named Lil J and lists her father, Todd, and Tennessee softball coach Karen Weekly as people who have made a difference in her life. If she was not playing softball, Leach would be a gymnast or golfer. She participated in art, gymnastics, golf, volleyball, and track and field as a child. Leach enjoys CrossFit, drawing, and hiking. She wears No. 75 after her father recommended a number related to the Marine Corps’ birthday (Nov. 10, 1775), and her walk-up song is “Dance Her Home” by Cody Johnson.

2023 Championship Season: Leach posted a 23rd-place showing in the final league standings with 1,224 leaderboard points. She was a starter in all 15 games and hit .205 with eight hits, including a pair of doubles. She scored a run in four of her first five outings. Leach opened the season with a two-hit performance and a run scored against Team Denham on July 29. She went 1-for-4 with a double against Team Romero on August 5. She also belted a double and scored twice against Team Flippen in the season finale on August 27. She authored seven games with 100 or more leaderboard points. 

2023 AUX Season: Leach secured second place on the final leaderboard with a total of 1,158 points. This included 620 win points and 338 stat points. She ranked second in the league with 200 MVP points, earning four Game MVP honors and two MVP 1 commendations. Leach led all players with 494 leaderboard points during Series One. She had an impressive batting average of .405, which was one of the best in the league. She recorded 15 hits, including two home runs, five doubles, and a triple. Leach also contributed eight RBIs and tied for second in the league with 10 runs scored. She had a streak of hitting safely in 8 out of 10 games, with four multi-hit games. In the opening series, Leach had a standout performance, going 4-for-4 against Team Zerkle on June 14. She also had a notable game against Team Warren on June 24, going 3-for-4 with a double, a triple, and three RBIs. Leach started the season strong with a 2-for-4 outing, including a home run, against Team Garcia on June 12.

2022 Championship Season: Leach finished 12th on the leaderboard with 1,450 points. She tied for third in the league with 1,160 win points and 14 runs scored and started in 12-of-14 games, posting a .383 batting average. Leach also claimed a share of fourth place in the league with 18 hits and scored a season-high three runs against Team Chidester in Week Four. She posted six multi-hit games, including a season-high three hits against Team Chidester on August 14th, and hit safely in 11-of-15 games, including four straight outings from August 5th-12th.

2020 Championship Season: Leach finished in 17th place on the leaderboard with 1,430 points. She tied for 12th in the league with 1,120 win points and started in all 15 games, hitting .346 with two doubles and eight runs batted in. Leach tied with Hannah Flippen for seventh place with 18 hits, also scoring 12 runs and drawing two walks. She led the circuit with three sacrifice hits and stole six bases in six attempts, good for second among all players. Leach tied for fourth in Athletes Unlimited with 52 at-bats.

Other Professional Experience: Leach is a member of the This Is Us softball team, which was formed in June 2020, and also played for Scrap Yard Fastpitch in 2019.

International Experience: Leach was a member of Team USA at the 2022 WBSC Pan American Championships, where she tied for the team lead with 11 hits during round-robin play while scoring 10 runs. Leach also tallied eight extra-base hits, including six doubles, a triple, and a home run. She went 3-for-3 with a double and two runs batted in during the Gold Medal Game victory over Canada. Leach also tallied three hits with three RBI against Cuba in the semifinal win after going 2-for-4 with three runs scored in the playoff-round triumph over Canada. She was a member of the Team USA roster for the 2023 WBSC World Cup Group A event in Dublin, Ireland, and hit .412 (7-for-17) with a triple, three runs batted in and four runs scored. She guided Team USA to a gold medal at the 2023 Pan American Games, scoring two runs in five plate appearances.

At Tennessee: Leach attended the University of Tennessee where she was a four-year letter winner and started 240 games from 2016-2019. Leach has a .385 career batting average with six home runs and 88 runs batted in. She ranks fifth in school history for career batting average and tallied 269 hits, including 30 doubles and seven triples, while scoring a school-record 255 runs. Leach stole 77 bases in 84 attempts during her career, the eighth-highest marks in Tennessee history, and drew a program-record 84 career walks. She posted a .503 on-base percentage, good for second on UT career list.