Sashel Palacios

2022 Championship Season: Accumulated 1,102 leaderboard points while starting 12-of-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.

International Experience: 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. 

Other Professional Experience: 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. 

Personal: 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 include 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.