HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Former Santa Clara softball All-American Ashley Trierweiler signed to play for the New York Rise, a professional fastpitch team competing in the inaugural season of the Association of Fastpitch Professionals (AFP). 
 
Based in Long Island, New York, the Rise is one of four teams in the AFP and is comprised of 17 players.  They will play a 19 game regular season beginning June 19 encompassing a six week season culminating in the Champion Cup Tournament from July 23-28. 
 
Trierweiler closed out her Santa Clara playing career in 2023 when she was named D1Softball second-team All-American, National Fastpitch Coaches Association third-team All-American, first-team All-West Coast Conference and NFCA Division I first-team All-Pacific Region.  That season, Trierweiler finished second nationally among Division I players in batting average at .486 and third with an .584 on-base percentage.
 
She led the WCC in both of those categories along with runs (50), hits (71), doubles (14), walks (34) and total bases (108) in all games to help lift the Broncos to their first back-to-back 20 win seasons since 2005 and 2006. 
 
The Belmont, California native holds the WCC career records with the highest career (.440) and single season batting average and graduated with a double major in child studies and psychology.
 
Trierweiler spent the 2024 season at Grand Canyon as a graduate transfer and continued her stellar play, winning the Western Athletic Conference's Player of the Year Award while leading the nation in hits (94) and posting the fourth highest batting average in the nation (.456).

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