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Rose Roach Season 2025

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Rose Roach Season 2025

PositionINF
Height5-6
YearSenior
HometownElburn, Ill.
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HONORS & AWARDS

2024 Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete

2024 CSC Academic All-District

2024 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll

2023-24 Chi Alpha Sigma Inductee

2023-24 Athletic Director’s Honor Roll

2023 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll

2023 SEC Tournament All-Tournament Team

2022 Jane B. Moore Memorial All-Tournament Team

2025 | SENIOR SEASON

Started all 59 games at second base … totaled 33 hits and added 37 runs scored … led the team with a .419 batting average with runners in scoring position … after not hitting a single home run over her first three years of collegiate softball, knocked five home runs in her senior season … also slugged five doubles and two triples and added 21 RBI … drew 20 walks … was a perfect 5-for-5 in stolen base attempts … held a .955 fielding percentage … finished tied for fifth in the SEC with 114 assists … slugged the first home run of her career versus Clemson (2/13) … set a career high with four RBI while driving in the go-ahead runs in Auburn’s comeback win versus Miami (2/22) … it was Auburn’s first come-from-behind win after trailing by at least five runs since 2020 … scored twice and slugged the first triple of her career at Troy (3/26) … knocked three home runs over the course of Auburn’s series versus No. 18 Georgia (4/11 – 4/13) … her slugging effort versus the Bulldogs included the first multi-home run game of her career (4/11) … knocked a pair of doubles, scored twice and added two RBI versus No. 13 South Carolina (4/25) … her final home run of the season came versus (5) Florida State (5/18) to help force the “if necessary” game at the Tallahassee Regional

2024 | JUNIOR SEASON

Started 36 games for the Tigers at second base … totaled 17 hits, including one double … added six runs scored and nine RBI … drew 17 walks en route to a .318 on base percentage … total nine sacrifice bunts to rank second on the team … finished 2-for-4 in stolen base attempts … turned in a .940 fielding percentage, committing just seven errors in 116 chances … help turn 10 double plays … drove in a career high three RBI, including the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, in Auburn’s extra-inning win versus Wichita State (2/15) … went a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate to set a career high in hits versus No. 20 Arkansas (3/16) … missed nine games due to an injury suffered at Texas A&M on March 24 … returned to action in the series opener at No. 6 LSU (4/12) … went 1-for-3 with an RBI versus Alabama (5/2) … knocked a two-run double and scored a run versus UCF (5/17) at the Tallahassee Regional

2023 | SOPHOMORE SEASON

Appeared in 47 games for the Tigers, primarily as a pinch runner before seeing an expanded role at second base during the last month of the season … made 13 starts with 10 coming at second base and three at third base … totaled 13 hits, including a career high four doubles … also set career highs with 14 runs scored and 10 RBI … drew four walks … finished third on the team in stolen bases, finishing the season 9-for-10 in steal attempts … totaled 29 putouts and 24 assists behind just four errors for a .930 fielding percentage … made her first career start as a third baseman in Auburn’s season opener versus St. John’s (2/10) … scored on a Missouri error to walk off a victory to clinch Auburn’s series win (3/25) … earned her first starts of the season in SEC play by starting all three games of the Tigers’ series versus No. 14 LSU (4/14 to 4/16) … executed a crucial sacrifice bunt in the bottom of the ninth to move Icess Tresvik into scoring position to set up Auburn’s walk-off win against LSU (4/16) in the series finale … drove in the game-winning run with a bases-loaded single in Auburn’s comeback victory over Ole Miss (5/11) in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals … drove in a run off a double to the wall versus South Carolina (5/12) during the SEC Tournament semifinals … named to the SEC Tournament All-Tournament Team … picked up a pair of RBI with a single to right versus Cal State Fullerton (5/20) to send Auburn to the Clemson Regional championship game

2022 | FRESHMAN SEASON

Appeared in 35 contests, earning 11 starts at shortstop … also saw time off the bench at third base and in the outfield … held a .271 average at the plate with 13 hits in 48 at bats … scored 12 runs for the Tigers … slugged a pair of doubles to help drive in five runs …named to the Jane B. Moore Memorial All-Tournament Team … first collegiate hit was an RBI double against Syracuse (2/27) … turned in her first multi-hit and multi-RBI game against North Carolina A&T (3/5), after going 2-for-2 with two RBI and a stolen base … scored a career high two runs versus Chattanooga (3/6) … earned her first collegiate start at shortstop against South Carolina (3/20) … knocked a pair of infield singles at Mercer (4/13)

HIGH SCHOOL
Tabbed the No. 32 recruit of the 2021 signing class by Extra Innings Softball … selected to the 2019 Extra Innings Softball 16U All-Summer Team … 2018 First Team All-State selection … 2019 Daily Chronicle Player of the Year … closed the 2019 season with a .537 average with eight home runs, 47 RBI and 44 runs scored … also competed for Tennessee Mojo club team

PERSONAL
Born Rose Victoria Roach on Feb. 7, 2003 ... daughter of Joan and Jason Roach ... has three sisters: Lexi, Kiley and Hailey ... earned her degree in exercise, performance and health in August of 2024

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Freshman
2022

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Sophomore
2023

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Junior
2024

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