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2025 Softball Roster

Profile

  • SS
    Position
  • Senior
    Class
  • Mapleton, Ill.
    Hometown
  • 5'5
    Height
  • Illini Bluffs
    High School
Josh Schwam
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Addie Welsh
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Addie Welsh
SS
Position
Senior
Class
Mapleton, Ill.
Hometown

Season Stats

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2025
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Career Stats

Career Statistics

Summary

Biography

Honors & Awards
MVC Newcomer of the Week: 03-15-22
NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete: 2021-22
Bradley AD Honor Roll: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2024

2024 (Junior)
Started all 56 games at shortstop... Led the team in assists with 106... 27 hits and 11 RBI... Finished the season 6th in Bradley History for Career Assists with 370... Slashed .223/.299/..331

2023 (Sophomore)
Started all 55 games at shortstop ... Recorded 127 assists, tied for eighth-most in a single season in Bradley history ... Finished the 2023 season with 264 career assists, 51 away from tying Laura Harms for 10th all-time ... One of four Braves to score 20 or more runs on the season with exactly 20 ... Tied for the second-most home runs on the team with four ... Welsh's .374 slugging percentage ranks fourth among qualified hitters ... Stole the most bases without being caught, swiping four bases without being caught ... Recorded five multi-hit games, including a 2-for-4 performance with a double, triple, and three RBIs ... hit home runs in back-to-back games against Murray State on March 24 and 25 ... Only Brave this season to record two triples on the season

2022 (Freshman)
Started all 52 games at shortstop … Shared team Defensive MVP honors … Had the most assists by a Bradley freshman with her season total of 137 tied for the fourth-best season total in school history … Drove in 21 runs and was third on the team with eight stolen bases … Boasted seven multi-hit games … Drove in multiple runs in six contests … Named MVC Newcomer of the Week after hitting .600 at the Bruin Classic with two homers … Belted four homers on the year … Fifteen of her 21 RBI came in the fifth inning or later, including 10 in the sixth inning or later … Drove in the game-winning run in the sixth inning or later in three of Bradley’s seven home wins … Drew a seventh-inning walk and scored to highlight a four-run seventh inning that forced extra innings against Southern Illinois and drove in the game-winning run with a RBI single in the eighth … Followed that with a go-ahead, two-out, two-run homer in the sixth of the day’s second game against the Salukis … Smacked a two-out triple in the sixth of the April 19 win against Illinois State and scored the tying run in the eventual 4-3 Bradley victory … Delivered with a suicide squeeze in the bottom of the seventh to give the Braves a 2-1 victory over Loyola … Capped Bradley’s scoring in a 9-1 win at Missouri State with a  three-run homer.

High School: Two-time all-state selection, earning first-team honors as a senior and third-team recognition her sophomore year … Helped the Tigers to the state championship her senior year after a second-place state finish in 2019 … Three-time all-conference pick … Hit .582 with 10 doubles, seven triples, three homers, 22 RBI and 34 runs scored her senior season … Owned a .400 average with 24 RBI and 24 stolen bases as a sophomore … Also lettered basketball and volleyball, earning first-team all-conference honors in both sports in her final prep season … Helped the Tigers to a second-place state finish in volleyball as a junior in 2019 and was part of back-to-back Sweet 16 teams in basketball.
 
Personal: The daughter of William and Mindy Welsh, Addie was born in Peoria, Ill … Has two younger siblings: Molly (14) and Ryan (14) … Majoring in high school education … Both her parents are Bradley graduates