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Sydney Romero

University of Oklahoma '19

Hometown: San Diego, California

2019 Big 12 Conference Player of the Year

Sydney Romero is a 5-foot-7 professional softball middle infielder from San Diego, California. She was acquired in the 3rd Round of the 2026 Expansion Draft following a collegiate career at Oklahoma.

Personal Life

Career: Named assistant coach at the University of Oregon in 2023 after spending the 2023 campaign at Duke. Won two NCAA championships as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma.

Family: Sister, Sierra, is also a professional softball player. Brother, Michael, was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 2022 MLB Draft. Sister, Sophia, plays softball at Boise State.

Background: Has dual citizenship in Mexico and the United States. Wears No. 2 in honor of Derek Jeter.

Professional Experience

Athletes Unlimited Pro Softball, AUX & AUSL (2021–2025)

2025 AUSL All-Star Cup: Collected 678 leaderboard points. Ranked fourth among all hitters with a .345 average, tallying 10 hits, 16 total bases, and a .958 OPS. Hit safely in 9-of-10 games.

2025 AUSL Regular Season: Logged a starting assignment in 19 games, helping the Talons win the first AUSL title. Posted a .308 batting average with 16 hits, six doubles, one home run, and seven RBIs.

2024 Championship Season: Authored a ninth-place finish with 1,436 leaderboard points. Posted a 10-5 game record and hit .217 with a league-high six doubles.

2023 Championship Season: Closed the season in sixth place with 1,600 points. Named Game MVP four times, hit three home runs, and drove in 11 runs (second in the league).

2022 Championship Season: Tallied 1,252 leaderboard points. Set an AU single-season record with eight doubles, batting .412 with a league-high 21 hits.

2022 AUX Season: Accumulated 1,260 points for a sixth-place finish. Batted .326 with two home runs and nine RBIs.

2021 Championship Season: Registered 932 leaderboard points during her rookie season.

Other Professional Experience (2019)

NPF: No. 3 overall selection in the 2019 NPF Draft by the USSSA Pride. Earned All-NPF honors after leading the Pride to the league championship.

International Experience (2020)

Team Mexico: Member of Team Mexico at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Hit .222 with four hits, including a home run.

College Experience: Oklahoma (2016–2019)

Career Statistics: Oklahoma’s all-time leader in at-bats (853), doubles (58), and sacrifice flies (13). Ranks second in school history with 320 hits and 121 extra-base hits.

Awards & Honors

All-America: Two-time First-Team NFCA All-America selection.

Conference Honors: Four-time NFCA All-Region and All-Big 12 Conference honoree. Honored as the 2019 Big 12 Conference Player of the Year.

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	2	2	7	7	.286	.286	.429	.715	-	2	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-
2026 Spark	25	25	93	85	.376	.409	.788	1.197	21	32	6	1	9	28	3	3	7	-	67	2	-	1	-
2025 All-Star Cup	10	10	32	29	.345	.406	.552	.958	3	10	1	1	1	5	2	1	1	-	16	-	-	1	-
2025 AUSL Postseason	2	2	6	5	.200	.200	.800	1.000	1	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	2	4	-	1	-	-
2025 Talons	19	19	60	52	.308	.383	.481	.864	8	16	6	-	1	7	4	3	8	11	25	1	-	-	-
2024 Championship*	15	8	55	46	.217	.315	.348	.663	3	10	6	-	-	8	5	2	-	-	16	1	1	-	-
2022 AUX Softball	12	-	49	43	.326	.396	.535	.931	7	14	1	1	2	9	2	3	2	-	23	-	1	-	-
2023 Championship*	15	6	51	40	.225	.380	.525	.905	5	9	1	1	3	11	3	7	3	-	21	-	1	1	-
2022 Championship*	15	-	56	51	.412	.455	.608	1.063	14	21	8	1	-	9	3	1	5	-	31	-	1	1	-
2021 Championship*	15	-	47	41	.220	.283	.293	.576	1	9	1	1	-	3	1	3	5	-	12	1	1	-	1
Career Totals	130	72	456	399	.311	.378	.546	.924	63	124	31	6	17	82	23	23	31	567	218	5	6	4	1

*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
8/10/2026	Team Garcia	Team Ricketts	4	4	.250	.250	.250	.500	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
8/9/2026	Team Ricketts	Team Corrick	3	3	.333	.333	.667	1.000	-	1	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-

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

Highlights

Rawlings Announces AUSL Finalists for 2026 Gold Glove Award

Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc. revealed the three finalists for the 2026 Athletes Unlimited Softball League Rawlings Gold Glove Award® on Wednesday. Utah Talons outfielder Jadelyn Allchin, Carolina Blaze infielder Alyssa Brito, and Oklahoma City Spark shortstop Sydney Romero are the three contenders to be the first AUSL player to win the award now that […]

Jadelyn Allchin, Alyssa Brito, and Sydney Romero were named finalists for the 2026 AUSL Rawlings Gold Glove Award.

Awards & Honors

2019 Big 12 Conference Player of the Year

2025 AUSL Champion (Talons)

Member of Team Mexico at 2020 Olympics

Oklahoma All-Time Leader in doubles

Four-Time All-Big 12 Conference

Two-Time WCWS All-Tournament Team

Two-Time First-Team NFCA All-American

12/2/2025Spark
Spark drafted Sydney Romero in the expansion draft: [Round 3, Pick 1 (5)]
7/4/2025-
Sydney Romero was reinstated from the injury reserve list
6/20/2025-
Sydney Romero placed on the 7-day injury reserve list on 6/20/2025
1/30/2025Talons
Talons drafted Sydney Romero in the inagural draft [Round 11, Pick 1(41)]

DATE	TEAM	TRANSACTION
12/2/2025	Spark	Spark drafted Sydney Romero in the expansion draft: [Round 3, Pick 1 (5)]
7/4/2025		Sydney Romero was reinstated from the injury reserve list
6/20/2025		Sydney Romero placed on the 7-day injury reserve list on 6/20/2025
1/30/2025	Talons	Talons drafted Sydney Romero in the inagural draft [Round 11, Pick 1(41)]