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Jersey Number 31
Kenleigh Cahalan
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Trussville, Ala.
- High School:
- Hewitt-Trussville
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
Coach Walton with Paul Finebaum
Monday, October 06
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
