#75, Infield, L/R

Aubrey Leach

University of Tennessee, Knoxville '19

Hometown: The Woodlands, Texas

2023 AUX Second Place Finisher

Aubrey Leach is a 5-foot-4 professional softball infielder from The Woodlands, Texas. She was acquired in the 4th Round of the 2025 Inaugural Draft following a collegiate career at Tennessee.

Personal Life

Hobbies: Enjoys CrossFit, art, traveling and cooking.

Background: Serves as chairperson of the AUSL Player Executive Committee, an assistant coach at Tennessee (promoted in June 2026) and an athlete representative on the USA Softball Board of Directors. Wears No. 75 in honor of the Marine Corps' birthday (1775) and models her game after Natasha Watley. Calls playing for Team USA for the first time and earning MVP honors at the Pan American Qualifiers her proudest accomplishment. Has a gecko named Little J.

Family: Married Zach Gartner in December 2025. Her grandmother, Wilma Ann Williams-Leach, played for the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Education: Majored in political science at Tennessee and earned her law degree from Tennessee in May 2024.

Professional Experience

Athletes Unlimited Softball League (2020–)

2026 AUSL All-Star Cup: Accumulated 480 leaderboard points, hitting .304 and tying for second with seven hits.

2026 AUSL Regular Season (Carolina Blaze): Leach ranked fourth in the AUSL with 90 plate appearances, authoring a .234 batting average with two home runs and eight runs batted in. She ranked seventh in the league with 17 runs scored while contributing 18 hits, including one double and two triples. She tied for fourth in the circuit with 11 walks and three stolen bases, posting a pair of two-hit efforts over the course of the season. On June 17, at Chicago, Leach went 2-for-4 with a triple and a home run. She followed that up on July 15, also against Chicago, with a 2-for-3 performance that included a home run. Leach opened the season by driving in two runs against Portland on June 9, and closed it out with a triple and three runs batted in against Oklahoma City in an 11-1 victory.

2025 AUSL All-Star Cup: Earned a share of 18th place with 900 leaderboard points. Compiled a .269 batting average with one home run and four RBIs.

2025 AUSL Regular Season (Blaze): Ranked ninth in the AUSL with a .355 batting average. Tied for first with 15 walks and ranked second with seven doubles. Became the first player in any AU softball game to register five hits (5-for-5 vs. Bandits on July 22).

2024 Championship Season: Tallied 1,140 leaderboard points and tied for the league lead with a .373 batting average and 19 hits. Earned her first AU Pro Softball All-Defensive Team selection.

2024 AUX Season: Finished 14th with 1,040 leaderboard points, batting .395 with 17 hits.

2023 Championship Season: Posted 1,224 leaderboard points, hitting .205 with eight hits.

2023 AUX Season: Secured second place with 1,158 points, hitting .405 and tying for the league lead with 15 hits.

2022 Championship Season: Finished 12th with 1,450 points, batting .383 with 18 hits.

2020 Championship Season: Closed the inaugural season in 17th place with 1,430 points, hitting .346.

Other Professional Experience (2019–2020)

Independent: Played for Scrap Yard Fastpitch in 2019 and the This Is Us softball team in 2020.

Team USA: Named Tournament MVP while leading Team USA to Gold at the 2022 WBSC Pan American Championships. Also won Gold at the 2023 Pan American Games and 2026 International Cup, and hit .545 at the 2026 WBSC World Cup Group Stage.

International Experience

College Experience: Tennessee (2016–2019)

Career Statistics: Started 240 games, authoring a .385 career batting average with 269 hits, 77 stolen bases, and a school-record 255 runs scored and 84 walks.

Senior Year (2019): Ranked fourth in the SEC with a .411 batting average and 65 runs scored.

Junior Year (2018): Led the SEC and ranked 12th in NCAA Division I with her batting average, scoring a program-record 80 runs.

Sophomore Year (2017): Paced the SEC with 60 runs scored.

Freshman Year (2016): Batted .348 with 57 hits and 50 runs scored.

Awards & Honors

All-America: Two-time NFCA First-Team All-Region and First-Team All-America in 2018.

YEAR	G	GS	PA	AB	AVG	OBP	SLG%	OPS	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	HP	SO	LOB	TB	SF	SH	SB	CS
2026 All-Star Cup	8	8	27	23	.304	.304	.348	.652	2	7	1	-	-	2	-	-	4	-	8	-	4	-	-
2026 Blaze	25	25	90	77	.234	.330	.377	.707	17	18	1	2	2	8	11	-	7	21	29	-	1	3	-
2025 All-Star Cup	8	8	30	26	.269	.345	.462	.807	4	7	2	-	1	4	3	-	7	-	12	-	1	-	-
2025 Blaze	24	24	94	76	.368	.467	.461	.928	23	28	7	-	-	7	15	-	9	19	35	1	2	6	1
2024 Championship*	15	9	58	51	.373	.448	.431	.879	12	19	1	1	-	4	7	-	6	-	22	-	-	2	1
2024 AUX Softball	12	6	49	43	.395	.469	.442	.911	12	17	2	-	-	1	6	-	8	-	19	-	-	3	-
2023 AUX Softball	10	2	43	37	.405	.488	.757	1.245	10	15	5	1	2	8	6	-	5	-	28	-	-	1	-
2023 Championship*	15	7	50	40	.200	.333	.250	.583	6	8	2	-	-	1	8	-	11	-	10	-	2	1	-
2022 Championship*	15	-	54	47	.383	.442	.383	.825	14	18	-	-	-	4	4	1	8	-	18	-	2	4	1
2020 Championship*	15	-	57	52	.346	.370	.385	.755	12	18	2	-	-	8	2	-	6	-	20	-	3	6	-
Career Totals	146	88	548	469	.328	.406	.426	.832	111	154	23	4	5	47	61	1	70	-	200	1	15	26	3

*The AUSL All-Star Cup was known as the Championship season through 2024.

Splits

DATE	HOME TEAM	AWAY TEAM	PA	AB	AVG	OBP	SLG%	OPS	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	HP	SO	LOB	TB	SF	SH	SB	CS
8/30/2026	Team Klingler	Team Kilfoyl	4	4	.750	.750	.750	1.500	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-
8/29/2026	Team Kilfoyl	Team Flippen	4	3	.333	.333	.333	.666	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-
8/23/2026	Team Palacios	Team Klingler	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
8/21/2026	Team Landry	Team Palacios	3	3	.667	.667	1.000	1.667	-	2	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-
8/16/2026	Team Brown	Team Ricketts	4	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	-	-	1	-	-
8/14/2026	Team Ricketts	Team Klingler	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-
8/10/2026	Team Garcia	Team Ricketts	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-
8/8/2026	Team Corrick	Team Garcia	3	3	.333	.333	.333	.666	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-

*The AUSL All-Star Cup was known as the Championship season through 2024.

Highlights

4 Takeaways on Team USA from the WBSC Softball Group Stage Event

This time next year, Team USA will be finalizing the softball roster for the LA28 Olympics. That means the next 12 months of performance and competition are crucial for athletes to earn a spot on the U.S. Women’s National Team. Softball wasn’t included in the last 2024 Games, and it’s been over a decade since […]

Awards & Honors

2023 AUX Second Place Finisher

2023 AU Pro Softball AUX Medalist (2nd Place)

Tennessee career record-holder in runs (255)

2024 AU Pro Softball All-Defensive Team

Member of Team USA

Set Tennessee single-season runs scored record(80)

11/21/2025-
Initial Protected Player
1/30/2025Blaze
Blaze drafted Aubrey Leach in the inagural draft [Round 3, Pick 4(12)]

DATE	TEAM	TRANSACTION
11/21/2025		Initial Protected Player
1/30/2025	Blaze	Blaze drafted Aubrey Leach in the inagural draft [Round 3, Pick 4(12)]

Aubrey Leach

Personal Life

Professional Experience

Athletes Unlimited Softball League (2020–)

Other Professional Experience (2019–2020)

International Experience

College Experience: Tennessee (2016–2019)

Awards & Honors

Career Stats

Splits

Game Log

Highlights

4 Takeaways on Team USA from the WBSC Softball Group Stage Event

Awards & Honors

Transactions

Aubrey Leach

Personal Life

Professional Experience

Athletes Unlimited Softball League (2020–)

Other Professional Experience (2019–2020)

International Experience

College Experience: Tennessee (2016–2019)

Awards & Honors

Career Stats

Splits

Game Log

Highlights

4 Takeaways on Team USA from the WBSC Softball Group Stage Event

Awards & Honors

Transactions

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