{{short description|American softball player}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} '''Jade Rhodes''' is a former collegiate All-American, right-handed professional All-Star softball player, originally from Sarasota, Florida.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nfca.org/category/ncaa-i?awarddivision=ncaa-i&awardtype=all-american&awardyear=2016 |title=2016 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I All-America Teams |website=National Fastpitch Coaches Association |date=2016 |access-date=February 18, 2021}}</ref> Rhodes played for the Auburn Tigers of the Southeastern Conference from 2013 to 2016 as a third baseman and first baseman and ranks in career home runs for the school.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://auburntigers.com/documents/2020/1/22/2020_Softball_Media_Guide.pdf |title=2020 Auburn Softball Media Guide |website=Auburn Tigers |date=2020 |access-date=February 18, 2021}}</ref> She helped the Tigers to a second-place finish at the 2016 Women's College World Series and was named All-Tournament.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/softball_wcws_stats/2016/auburn.htm |title=The Automated ScoreBook - Auburn |website=NCAA.org |date=2016 |access-date=February 18, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/softball_wcws_rb/2020/01-General.pdf |title=Women's College World Series |website=NCAA.org |date=2020 |access-date=February 18, 2021}}</ref> Although undrafted, Rhodes went on to play in the National Pro Fastpitch from 2016 to 2019 and won a title in 2017 with the Scrap Yard Dawgs.
==High school career== In 2012, she was named the Sarasota Herald Tribune Softball Player of the Year for Sarasota High School.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite web |first=Scott |last=Schultz |url=https://www.flosoftball.com/articles/6520595-grit-grind-proving-herself-is-the-jade-rhodes-way |title=Grit, Grind, & Proving Herself Is The Jade Rhodes Way |website=FloSoftball |date=June 24, 2019}}</ref>
==College career== Rhodes was an All-American for the Auburn Tigers.<ref name="al.com">{{Cite news |url=https://www.al.com/sports/2016/06/the_jade_rhodes_unknown_auburn_softball_loss_brother_estranged_father.html |title=The Rhodes unknown: Auburn softball slugger defined by loss of brother, estrangement with former Major League father |first=James |last=Crepea |date=June 2, 2016 |work=AL.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://auburntigers.com/sports/softball/roster/jade-rhodes/2256 |title=Jade Rhodes |website=Auburn Tigers |access-date=2021-02-18}}</ref>
==Professional career== For the 2018 National Pro Fastpitch season, while playing for the Cleveland Comets, Rhodes won the Rawlings Gold Glove Award as the league's top fielder.<ref name="autogenerated1" /><ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite web |url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/sports/20180826/column-rhodes-gloves-gold-for-npf-softball-comets |title=COLUMN: Rhodes gloves gold for NPF softball Comets |first=Doug |last=Fernandes |newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune}}</ref>
==Coaching career== Previously an assistant coach at Eastern New Mexico University, Rhodes is now an assistant coach for Oklahoma Baptist University.<ref name="autogenerated2" />
==Personal== Rhodes's father is former professional baseball player Arthur Rhodes.<ref name="al.com" />
==Statistics== {| class="sortable wikitable" |+Auburn Tigers |- align=center | '''YEAR''' | G | AB | R | H | BA | RBI | HR | 3B | 2B | TB | SLG | BB | SO | SB | SBA |- align=center | '''2013''' | 25 | 24 | 3 | 2 | .083 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .083% | 4 | 10 | 2 | 3 |- align=center | '''2014''' | 56 | 156 | 21 | 34 | .218 | 45 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 63 | .404% | 10 | 36 | 0 | 0 |- align=center | '''2015''' | 67 | 183 | 46 | 52 | .284 | 58 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 119 | .650% | 28 | 42 | 0 | 1 |- align=center | '''2016''' | 69 | 195 | 54 | 66 | .338 | 74 | 20 | 0 | 11 | 137 | .702% | 31 | 32 | 2 | 3 |- align=center | '''TOTALS''' | '''217''' | '''558''' | '''124''' | '''154''' | '''.276''' | '''179''' | '''46''' | '''2''' | '''25''' | '''321''' | '''.575%''' | '''73''' | '''120''' | '''4''' | '''7''' |}
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