2025 Softball Roster
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Cahalan, Kenleigh
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Jersey Number 31
Kenleigh Cahalan
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Trussville, Ala.
- High School:
- Hewitt-Trussville
Bio
Major: Education Sciences
Career Honors:
Career Honors:
- NFCA Player of the Week (Feb. 25, 2025)
- 2025 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
- 2024 All-SEC Second Team
- 2023 NFCA All-South Region Third Team (2023)
- 2023 TUCCI/NFCA D1 National Freshman of the Year Top-25 Finalist
- Honors:
- NFCA Player of the Week (Feb. 25)
- SEC Ranks:
- Assists: 121 (4th)
- Statistics:
- Appeared in all 65 games, making 64 starts at third base
- Batted a career-best .302 (54-for-179) with 43 runs, 40 RBI, 10 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs, 28 walks and three sacrifice flies
- Went 6-for-7 in stolen base attempts
- Recorded 15 multi-hit and 13 multi-RBI games
- Held a season-high 16 game on-base streak
- Helped turn nine double plays and led the team with 121 assists
- Notables:
- Set a new career-high of six RBI vs. Iowa State (Feb. 23)
- Went a career-best 4-for-4 at the plate vs. Troy (March 1)
- Hit two grand slams: her first career at Grand Canyon (Feb. 22) and second vs. Troy (March 1)
- Started all 59 games at shortstop
- Tallied back-to-back multi-hit games against Longwood and Georgia Tech (Feb. 10) with a combined five hits and three runs scored to close out the season-opening Buzz Classic
- Recorded at least one hit in four of the five games at the Green & Gold Classic, scoring twice and driving in three runs in the weekend finale vs. UAB (Feb. 25)
- Was 2-for-3 in the game three win over Florida (March 11)
- Had two doubles and a solo home run over the Georgia series (March 15-17), driving in three runs
- Hit a pair of triples in game two against Virginia Tech (March 23), becoming just the fifth player in program history to do so
- Went 3-for-4 in the game two win at Kentucky (March 29)
- Hit a bases-clearing three run double in the game one win over Ole Miss (April 5)
- Scored the game-winning run in game three vs. third-ranked Tennessee (April 28), hitting a two-out triple and then scoring on a Kristen White single
- Was 3-for-6 in the game two win at Auburn (May 3), hitting the go-ahead two run single in the top of the 11th inning
- Drove in four runs and scored twice in the NCAA Regional championship game vs. Southeastern (May 19)
- Was 5-for-13 (.385) over the Super Regional series against Tennessee, tying her career high with three hits in the series finale (May 26)
- Started all 67 games, primarily at shortstop
- Opened Crimson Tide career on a 14-game hit streak, the longest by any Alabama freshman to start their career
- Scored three runs against Georgia Southern (Feb. 11) and had three RBIs on an inside-the-park home run
- Was 5-for-16 (.313) at the TaxAct Clearwater Invitational, including a home run in the weekend finale vs. Florida State to break up a perfect game
- Drove in the game-winning run vs. Samford (Feb. 22) with a sixth-inning RBI single
- Led the team with eight hits at the Easton Bama Bash (Feb. 24-26), batting 8-for-12 (.667) with eight runs scored including three doubles and two home runs
- Was 5-for-14 (.357) at the T-Mobile Crimson Classic (March 3-5), including three multi-RBI performances
- Went 5-for-15 (.333) at the Bevo Classic (March 10-12), including the go-ahead RBI single in the eventual extra-inning win over Texas
- Hit 5-for-10 (.500) in the Missouri series (March 31-April 2), including multi-hit efforts in games one and two
- Hit a walk-off RBI single in the extra-inning win over South Carolina (April 6), part of a 2-for-4 day at the plate
- Had a hit in all three games vs. Auburn, including a two-hit performance in the series finale (April 23)
- Slugged a two-run home run in the first inning of the game one win over LSU (April 28)
- Ranked as the No. 1 overall player in 2023 class by Perfect Game Softball
- 2022 Alabama Miss Softball
- 2022 MaxPreps Alabama Player of the Year
- Two-time Gatorade Player of the Year finalist (2021-22)
- Two-time PGF All-American and MaxPreps All-American
- 2022 PGF 18U National Champion with Birmingham Thunderbolts
- 2022 All-State Player of the Year
- 7A State Runner-Up
- All-State every year of varsity
- Made All-State as 8th grader, the youngest player in 7A ever to do so
Tim Walton, Korbe Otis, Reagan Walsh, Kendra Falby Postgame Press Conference 5-30-25
Saturday, May 31
Tim Walton, Korbe Otis, Keagan Rothrock Postgame Press Conference 5-29-25
Thursday, May 29
Kendra Falby, Jocelyn Erickson Rawlings Gold Glove Press Conference 5-28-25
Wednesday, May 28
Tim Walton, Kendra Falby, Taylor Shumaker Pre-WCWS Press Conference 5-28-25
Wednesday, May 28
