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2023 Softball Roster

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4 Bubba Gleaves

  • Position Utility
  • B/T R/R
  • Height 5-4
  • Class Senior
  • School CC
  • Hometown Post Falls, Idaho
  • Highschool Post Falls

Biography

2023
Started all 41 games for the Lions as a senior … Went 37-for-115 at the plate for a .322 average, which was the second-best on the team … Hit 11 doubles, one triple and two homers to complement 19 RBI … Named to the First Team All-Ivy list … Named an Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete.
 
2022
Started all 38 games for the Lions … Finished the season with a .248 batting average … Had 25 hits, three doubles, and two home runs … Named Honorable Mention All-Ivy … Honored as an Easton-NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete.
 
2021
Season canceled (COVID-19).

2020
Played in four games and started three of a COVID-shortened 10-game season ... Went 2-for-9 at the dish with an RBI ... Went 2-for-3 with an RBI in her collegiate debut against Providence, helping the Lions to a 6-0 victory (Feb. 21).

Prior to Columbia
A multi-sport athlete from Post Fall High School in Idaho ... Four-year letterwinner in both basketball and softball for the Trojans, including a two-year captain in softball and senior captain in basketball ... Helped her basketball team win the Idaho State 5A title in 2018 ... Played club softball for Coeur d’Alene Crush from 2008-16 before joining the Washington Majestics for her final four seasons. .. Helped the Majestics to fourth place at the 2016 ASA Gold Nationals as well as the 2017 Valley Invite Gold Championship ... Graduated among the top of her high school class ... Four-year Scholar-Athlete, four-year Post Falls Highest Honors/Honor Roll selection and three-year class president.

Personal
Born Nov. 11, 2000 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ... Birth name is Bailey Gleaves ... Daughter of Terry Starkey and Holly Gleaves ... Family are descendants of Henry Hudson ... Chose Columbia over several schools, including Stanford, Princeton, Brown, Oregon and Boise State ... Enrolled in Columbia College.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2020First Year

    Utility
    5'4"
    4
  • 4

    2021Sophomore

    Utility
    5'4"
    4
  • 4

    2022Junior

    Utility
    5'4"
    4
  • 4

    2023Senior

    Utility
    5'4"
    4