Two former Washington Huskies named to AUSL All-Defensive team

USA Today

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Two former Huskies have won end-of-season honors in the inaugural season of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League.
Outfielder Jadelyn Allchin and utility player Baylee Klingler were named to the All-Defense team on Wednesday as two of the ten honorees. Allchin was one of five Talons players named to the list, including Defensive Player of the Year Hannah Flippen. Klingler was one of three Blaze players to make the team.
Allchin, who completed her college career at UCLA in 2024 after four seasons at Washington, recorded 37 putouts with a fielding percentage of .974 while mostly playing left field for the 18-6 Talons.
Klingler, who started all 197 games of her Huskies career from 2020-23 after transferring from Texas A&M, had 37 putouts and recorded 4 double plays with a fielding percentage of .957 while primarily playing third base for the 7-17 Blaze.
The two have had very different paths to the field this season. Klingler was drafted as a core player in the eighth round by the Blaze in January and recorded two home runs in her first six games to start the year, but hit a bit of a slump in mid-June associated with a head injury that she recovered from during the midseason break. When the Blaze returned for a sold-out series between Huskies alums Klingler and Sis Bates of the Volts starting July 11, Klingler snapped her cold streak, recording an RBI in all three games on Montlake. She finished with a .357/.392/.571 slash line in 20 games with 6 doubles and 3 home runs.
Allchin, meanwhile, began the season in the Reserve Athlete Pool as one of the on-call fill-ins for the 16 standard roster spots for the league's four teams. She was assigned to the Talons on May 22 to fill in for other players arriving late for the season, but stuck around as an injury replacement for a variety of players. Allchin opened the season with a six-game hitting streak, finishing the year with the third-highest on-base percentage in the league and a league-leading 8 stolen bases without being caught a single time. Even so, Allchin spent three days back in the Reserve Athlete Pool last week between appearances for the Talons as their core 16 members were all available from July 16-19.
Now, after a winding season for both women, they've earned league-wide honors.
The AUSL Championship series begins Saturday between Allchin's Talons, who also roster Husky alum Ali Aguilar and the Bandits, the only team in the league without a former Washington player.