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2017 Softball Roster

3 Ashley Leon

  • Position Infield
  • Height 5-3
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Miami, Fla.
  • High School Gulliver Prep
  • Prev School Auburn

Biography

2016 (Senior) Second-Team All-Conference USA... Played in all but one of the team's 61 games, batting mostly in the second spot in the lineup... Led Conference USA with 15 sacrifice hits, advancing runners with a .585 success rate, advancing runners a team-high 72 times... Led team with 22 hits with runners in scoring position (.367 average)... Had 14 of FIU's 21 bunt hits for a single, a career high total, and 15 of the team's 48 sac bunts... Sixth-toughest to strikeout in Conference USA (10 strikeouts in 181 at bats, a rate of one strikeout for every 18.1 at bats)... Set career highs with games played (60), 42 runs, 181 at bats, 19 stolen bases... Third on the team with a .337 batting average and second in stolen bases.

2016 (Junior) Played in 52 games, starting 50, all at second base (appeared twice as a pinch runner)...Stole a base in one pinch-run appearance... Turned in FIU's sixth season batting .400 or better (hit .409 in 2016)... Finished second on the team and third in the league at the end of the regular season... Led squad with three triples and 12 sacrifice hits... Also finished second on the team with 13 stolen bases... One of four players to collect 60 or more hits, with 65... Also finished second on the team with 40 runs and posted a 12-game hit streak, second-longest on the squad for the season... Landed fourth on the squad with 17 multiple-hit games... Turned in one of the five four-hit games for FIU for the season in a home game against East Carolina, 3/8... Batted .333 in league games only, leading the way for the team with seven sacrifice hits... One of four Panthers with 10-or-more runs (14) and RBI (11) in league-only games... Tied her career high with three RBI in a road win at WKU, 3/20... Drew two walks for a new career high in a home win over Central Connecticut State, 2/26... Also tied career high with three runs scores in that contest... Third in putouts (152) and second in assists (93)... Missed six games, including most of the opening conference weekend, with an injury... Collected at least one hit in the next seven games back.. Ended the season on a seven-game hitting streak.

2015 (Sophomore)  Second on FIU with hits with 49 to go along with the Panthers’ second-best batting average (.358)… A force at second base, she was part of 13 of FIU’s league-leading 23 double plays this season… Led her squad with a .333 batting average in conference games to go along with 11 RBI in the time frame… Her 124 put outs at second base was second on the team, while she had seven fielding double plays in conference play alone, which tied for third in the league…Led FIU with 10 stolen bases… Has a team-high 17 multi-hit games and hit for a career-high 10-game hit streak earlier in the season...Swiped a bag and picked up her first-career multi-hit game versus Houston in her FIU debut... Had first career multi-stolen base game versus EKU, which included a steal home... Also collected her first-career three-hit game versus the Cardinals...Picked up her third multi-hit game and second-in-a-row with a two-hit performance against Houston Baptist...Tallied a career-high tying five putouts versus a then-No. 3 Alabama Crimson Tide team...Picked up first career double during the Felsberg Invitational versus the Big Ten’s Michigan State... Served as a staple at second base during the tournament, turning an unassisted double play... Had a perfect day at the plate versus Marshall on March 9 on a nationally televised game on FOX Sports...Made two fantastic unassisted double plays in the team’s first road Conference USA series at Middle Tennessee on March 15...
 
2014 (Freshman, at Auburn– Appeared in 26 games for the Tigers... Tallied four hits and scored seven runs to go along with four RBI... Finished a perfect two-for-two on the base paths and fielded a clean 1.000.

Prior to FIU – Helped anchor a Gulliver Prep team to four-straight state championships, while earning First-Team All-State honors from 2011-13... Was named the 2012 Class 4A Florida Defensive Player of the Year and was a First-Team All-America honoree as a senior in high school
 
Personal –  Birthday is May 11… Daughter of Sergio and Haychel Leon… Has two siblings, Sergio and Melissa… Graduated in May, 2017, with a degree in Physical Education: Sport and Fitness Studies

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Historical Player Information

  • 3

    2015Sophomore

    Infield
    5'3"
    3
  • 3

    2016Junior

    Infield
    5'3"
    3
  • 3

    2017Senior

    Infield
    5'3"
    3