Sierra Romero
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Born | Murrieta, California, U.S. | March 19, 1994||||||||||||||
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2013–2016 | Michigan | ||||||||||||||
2016–present | USSSA Pride | ||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Infielder | ||||||||||||||
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2019 | Oregon (Volunteer asst.) | ||||||||||||||
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Sierra Joy Romero (born March 19, 1994) is a Mexican American professional softball player. She formerly was a volunteer assistant softball coach for the Oregon Ducks softball team. She played college softball for Michigan from 2013 to 2016, where she set numerous records and was a four-time All-American. She holds the Big Ten Conference career Triple Crown, along with the total bases and slugging percentage records, simultaneously leading all of the NCAA Division I in runs scored and grand slams. She was the inaugural winner of both the espnW Softball Player of the Year in 2015 and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Player of the Year in 2016, when she also took home the Honda Sports Award Softball Player of the Year and USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year awards. She is one of nine NCAA players to hit .400 with 200 RBIs, 50 home runs and an .800 slugging percentage for her career and was named the #5 Greatest College Softball Player.[1][2]
Early years
Romero was born in 1994 and grew up in Murrieta, California. She attended Vista Murrieta High School and was ranked as the No. 3 prospect in the United States by ESPN.com. She graduated from Vista Murrieta in 2012.[1]
University of Michigan
2013 season
As a freshman in 2013, she was selected as the
Debuting on February 8, Romero went 1/4 with a two-run double in defeating the Marshall Thundering Herd.[6] Romero led the Wolverines to the Women's College World Series and on June 1, 2013, she hit a home run to best the Arizona State Sun Devils in a 2–0 victory as their only win at the series.[7][8][9][10][11] Michigan softball coach Carol Hutchins at the time said of Romero: "The one thing she gives us is swag. She's got swag like no other."[12]
2014 season
In 2014, Romero once again earned honors from the NFCA (a first-team selection) and the conference.
2015 season
In 2015, Romero, captured her third all-season honors, including the inaugural ESPNW's National Player of The Year.[18][19][20] Romero appeared in 68 games for Michigan and achieved a career highs in RBIs (Big Ten record), slugging percentage and stolen bases, while ranking top-5 in school batting average, on base percentage, home runs, bases on balls, runs, with 35 extra base hits. She also amassed a second conference Triple Crown.[21][22] For the NCAA, she ranked top-5 in RBIs and on base percentage.
On February 28, Romero drove in six RBIs with a three-hit, two-home run performance to defeat the Binghamton Bearcats for a career high.[23] Romero hit two home runs on March 6 vs. the San Jose State Spartans to reach her career 50th, the milestone hit off Berlyn Rippentrop.[24] The next month on April 18, Romero tallied her 200th career RBI on a two-run homer to help defeat the Indiana Hoosiers.[25] On May 8, she set a new NCAA record with her tenth career grand slam home run.[26]
The Wolverines entered the WCWS as the No. 2 seed and advanced into the championship series against the Florida Gators. In the finale, Romero batted in the only run in a 4–1 loss.[27] She was named to the All-Tournament Team.[28]
2016 season
In 2016, Romero was awarded her third conference Player of The Year and First Team All-American honors.[29][30] She was named USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, the inaugural NFCA National Player of the Year, along with winning the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best softball player in 2016.[31][32][33][34] Romero appeared in 59 games with top-5 school batting average, on-base and slugging percentage, home runs, runs scored and walk stats. She ranked top-5 in NCAA categories for RBIs and home runs.[35]
Beginning on February 21, Romero began a career high 18 consecutive game hit streak against the
For her career at Michigan, the Wolverine set records for the highest career batting average in school history, 50 points ahead of Michigan's prior record holder,
After the
Professional career
Romero was drafted second overall by the USSSA Pride in the National Pro Fastpitch 2016 draft.[46][47] Following her rookie year, Romero was named to the All-NPF team in 2017.[48] Romero missed the 2019 season due to a torn ACL sustained during a preseason exhibition game.[49]
Coaching career
On August 15, 2018, it was announced that Romero joined the Oregon Ducks softball staff as a volunteer assistant coach.[50]
Personal life
She is the eldest daughter of Michael and Melissa Romero. She has three younger siblings; her youngest sibling Sophia, is also an aspiring softball player, her brother Mikey was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the first round of the 2022 Major League Baseball draft, and sister Sydney, is an infielder for USSSA Pride.[51][52] She is of Mexican and Chamorro descent.[53][54]
Statistics
YEAR | G | AB
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R | H | BA | RBI | HR
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3B | 2B | TB | SLG | BB | SO | SB | SBA |
2013 | 64 | 182 | 67 | 69 | .379 | 71 | 23 | 2 | 11 | 153 | .840% | 49 | 28 | 6 | 8 |
2014 | 62 | 165 | 74 | 81 | .491 | 72 | 18 | 1 | 11 | 148 | .897% | 67 | 16 | 9 | 9 |
2015 | 68 | 176 | 85 | 79 | .449 | 83 | 22 | 2 | 11 | 160 | .909% | 58 | 8 | 21 | 25 |
2016 | 59 | 162 | 76 | 73 | .450 | 79 | 19 | 1 | 11 | 143 | .882% | 52 | 12 | 15 | 17 |
TOTALS | 253 | 685 | 302 | 302 | .441 | 305 | 82 | 6 | 44 | 604 | .881% | 226 | 64 | 51 | 59 |
YEAR | AB
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R | H | BA | RBI | HR
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3B | 2B | TB | SLG | BB | SO | SB |
2016 | 111 | 18 | 37 | .333 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 60 | .540% | 10 | 17 | 3 |
2017 | 129 | 19 | 36 | .279 | 35 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 66 | .511% | 17 | 30 | 3 |
2018 | 99 | 23 | 39 | .394 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 73 | .737% | 14 | 12 | 8 |
TOTALS | 339 | 60 | 112 | .330 | 83 | 19 | 6 | 18 | 199 | .587% | 41 | 59 | 14 |
See also
- NCAA Division I softball career .400 batting average list
- NCAA Division I softball career 200 RBIs list
- NCAA Division I softball career 50 home runs list
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "USSSA Pride will play two games Thursday following a day of rain". floridatoday.com. June 17, 2019. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
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- ^ "Sierra Romero bio". USSSAPride.com. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ Speier, Alex (July 17, 2022). "Red Sox surprise in first round, choose high school shortstop Mikey Romero". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
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- ^ Lujan, Patrick (June 4, 2019). "Guam Roots: Bubba Nickles and Sydney Romero". Guam Sports Network. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ "Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics". Ncaa.org. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
External links
- Sierra Romero on Twitter
- Oklahoma vs. Michigan: 2016 Women's College World Series FULL REPLAY on YouTube