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Jersey Number 11
Ava Tepe
- Position:
- Catcher/First Base
- Height:
- 5-6
- Class:
- Senior
- Prev school:
- Mount Notre Dame HS
- Hometown:
- Cincinnati, Ohio
Senior (2025):
- Became the program leader in career hit by pitches vs. NM State (April 25) with 40
- Led CUSA with 13 hit by pitches
- CUSA Commissioner's Honor Roll
- Played in 52 games starting in all of them
- Slash line of .209/.318/.395
- Recorded 27 hits, 27 runs, six doubles, six home runs, 24 RBI, and eight walks
- 10 of her 12 extra-base hits were in CUSA play
- Five multi-hit games
- 2/2 with a walk and a home run vs. UTEP (May 3)
- Hit a three-run, walk off home run vs. Sam Houston (March 14)
- CUSA Commissioner's Academic Medal List
- Led CUSA with 12 hit by pitches
- Played in 51 games and made 50 starts
- Batted a career-high .234 with 30 hits, six doubles and six home runs
- Totaled three hits against Detroit Mercy (03/01/24)
- Delivered three RBIs against Brown (02/25/24)
- Played in 52 games and started 51 behind the plate
- Batted .229 with 29 hits and 18 RBIs
- Recorded 13 hit-by-pitches for the second most in a single season in program history
- Caught 11 baserunners stealing (Career-best)
- Posted a 2-3 game with one RBI against North Texas in the C-USA Championship title game (May12)
- Played in 33 games and made 29 starts
- Finished the season batting .206, with 14 hits, including a double, as well as 10 runs scored and seven RBI
- Ranked fifth on the team in on-base percentage (.313)
- Ranked seventh on the team in runs scored () and on-base plus slugging ()
- Perfect on the base paths, going 3-for-3 in stolen bases
- Posted a career-best 2-for-3 performance and scored a run against Georgia Southern (March 6)
- Scored a career-best two runs and went 1-for-2 against Mississippi State (March 30)
- Four-year softball letter-winner and also played basketball for three years at Mount Notre Dame High School
- Named a GGCL All-Star and First Team, voted as her team’s MVP and awarded the Mount Notre Dame All-Around Athlete Award in 2021
- Also a First Teamer in the GGCL in 2019 and was on the Second Team as a freshman in 2018
- Batted .413 with 14 runs and 14 RBIs as a senior
- Earned an Honorable Mention spot on the Greater Cincinnati Division I All-Star list and won her team’s Pete Rose Hustle Award in 2019
- Part of the 2019 Ohio HS Division I State Championship team in basketball and earned the MND Coaches Award
- Played travel ball with OFC Heat, batting .344 and leading her team to a title in the 16U USFA “A” World Series Championship
- Born June 10, 2003
- Daughter of Tim and Karen Tepe
- Has an older sister, Alexandra, and an older brother, Jared
- Jared plays football as a linebacker for Ohio Northern University
- Majoring in Music Business
Facility tour – Stephen and Denise Smith Student-Athlete Performance Center
Wednesday, July 30
Spring Sports Show hosted by The Boulevard – April 21, 2025: Softball and Baseball
Monday, April 21
MTSU Softball vs WKU Recap 4/11-13/25
Monday, April 14
MTSU Softball vs WKU Recap 4/11-13/25 2025
Monday, April 14
