Rutgers-Camden Athletics

Rachel Edwards has compiled a .270 career batting average (57-for-211) over her 99 games at Rutgers-Camden. She has started 95 career games, including all 67 from the 2018-2020 seasons. Edwards ranks seventh on the program’s career list with 197 assists and is tied for fourth with 12 double plays.  She also is tied for fifth on the Raptors’ career list with four sacrifice flies and ranks eighth by reaching 11 times as a hit batsman. Coupled with 21 walks, Edwards owns a .360 on-base percentage over her Raptor career.
 
Academics: Member of Rutgers-Camden’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 scholastic years.
 
Softball 2020: Started all four Raptor games at third base during the 2020 season, which was shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic…Hit .417 (fourth on the team) with a team-leading .583 slugging percentage…Tied for the team lead with two doubles and one sacrifice fly…Had a 1.000 fielding percentage (five putouts, six assists in 11 total chances)…Scored one run, had one RBI, one sacrifice fly and one stolen base in her only attempt…Hit safely in all four games…Opened the season with a doubleheader against SUNY-New Paltz (March 8), going 1-for-2 with one double, one sacrifice fly and one RBI in the opening game and 2-for-3 in the nightcap…Had two putouts and two assists in the first game and added three assists in the second game…In a doubleheader against Gwynedd Mercy (March 10), went 1-for-3 with two putouts and one assist in the opener and 1-for-4 with a double, one run, one stolen base and one putout in the nightcap.
 
Softball 2019: Started all 32 Rutgers-Camden games at third base, one of only three Scarlet Raptors to start every game…Hit .256 with eight RBIs and was tied for third on the club with 10 runs scored…Led the team by reaching base six times as a hit batsman…Also drew seven walks, had one sacrifice fly and notched four sacrifices…Compiled a .354 on-base percentage…Had a team-leading 62 assists, while adding 36 putouts and one double play…Finished second on the team with seven multiple-hit games, including a 3-for-3 game with one sacrifice and one RBI in the opener of an April 6 doubleheader against Montclair State…Went 2-for-3 with a sacrifice and two RBIs in the nightcap of a doubleheader against Catholic University (April 17)…Had a three-game hitting streak (5-for-10, .500) April 16-17, including two-hit games against Stockton (April 16, Game Two) and Catholic (April 17, Game Two)…Also had 2-for-3 games against Tufts (March 17) and Geneva (March 18), adding one run and one RBI in each game, and in the second game of doubleheaders against Ramapo (April 2) and Moravian (April 15)…Was hit by a pitch two times in the opener of an April 19 twinbill at William Paterson…Had a season high of seven total chances (two putouts, five assists) against Farmingdale State (March 17).
 
Softball 2018: Started all 31 Rutgers-Camden games, including 19 at shortstop and 12 at second base…Led the team with 68 assists and finished fourth with 69 putouts…Second on the club with five double plays…Scored 12 runs (fifth on the team) and had 10 RBIs (fourth)…Third on the club with five doubles…Led the team with five HBP, while adding eight walks to compile a .349 on-base percentage…Was successful on six of seven stolen base attempts…Hit .239 with a .310 slugging percentage…Had a pair of multi-hit games, collecting three hits apiece in games against Sarah Lawrence (March 11, going 3-for-4 with three runs, one double and two RBIs) and against Shaw (3-for-4, one run and two RBIs)…Also had two-RBI games against Keystone (March 13, 1-for-3) and New Jersey City University (Mar31, Game Two, going 1-for-2 with one double and two walks)…Had a four-game hitting streak from March 11-13 (8-for-13, .615)…Defensively, had a season-high six putouts (in six chances) against Montclair State (April 21, Game One, while playing second base)…Had six assists against Shaw (March 13, playing shortstop) and against Rutgers-Newark (April 14, Game Two, playing second base)…Handled all eight chances cleanly against Ramapo College (April 26, Game Two, playing second base), notching three putouts and five assists.
 
Softball 2017: Played in 32 games, starting 28 (26 at shortstop, two at first base)…Hit .304 with three runs, seven RBIs and one triple…Posted a .348 slugging percentage and a .385 on-base percentage…Successful on her only stolen base attempt…Collected six walks…Finished second on the team in assists (61) and sixth in putouts (63)…Turned six double plays…Closed the season with an eight-game hitting streak (April 18-29), going 10-for-22 (.455)…Hit .389 (7-for-18) with runners in scoring position and advanced 14 runners in 30 opportunities for a .467 mark…Out of her seven RBIs, six came with two outs…Made her collegiate debut against Fredonia (March 3) in the team’s season opener, playing shortstop and going 0-for-1 with six putouts and one assist in seven chances…Had three putouts and a season-high six assists against Shenandoah (March 4)…Had her first collegiate hit and RBI against Alfred State (March 11) with a fifth-inning RBI infield single…Later that same day, in a win over Johnson State, collected a pinch-hit, bases-clearing triple in the third inning to produce the first multi-RBI game of her career…Went 0-for-1 with one RBI, one stolen base and two walks against Wisconsin-Stout (March 13)…Drew a leadoff walk and scored the winning run in the top of the sixth inning as the Raptors beat The College of New Jersey, 7-6 (April 5, Game Two)…Went 1-for-2 with a walk and two runs scored overall in that game…Went 3-for-5 with the Raptors’ lone RBI in a doubleheader loss against Rowan University (April 18), collecting three of the eight hits Rutgers-Camden produced on the day…Went 1-for-2 in the first game, in which the Raptors managed only two hits, and was 2-for-3 with her RBI in the nightcap…In Rutgers-Camden’s doubleheader loss to Kean University (April 29), had three of the Raptors’ eight total hits, going 3-for-6 on the day, including 2-for-3 in the nightcap…Had four putouts and six assists in 10 chances in that twinbill.
 
High School: Softball letterwinner who graduated Washington Township High School in 2016…Helped the Minutemaids win the Group 4 state championship in 2015.