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2025 Softball Roster

7 Raya Anderson

  • Height 5-4
  • Bats/Throws R/R
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Rollinsford, N.H.
  • High School Marshwood
  • Position OF
  • Major Psychology

Biography

Career Single-Game Highs
Batting 
Hits: 4, vs. Norwich (April 20, 2024) 
Double: 1, multiple times
Triple: 1, multiple times
Homeruns: 1, multiple times
RBI: 5 vs. Norwich (April 22, 2023 - Game 1)
Walks3, vs. Lasell (April 2, 2023 - Game 1)

Fielding
Putouts7, vs. Concordia Chicago (March 5, 2023 - Game 2)
Assists: 1, multiple times

2025: 
Has appeared in 29 games for the Sharks so far this season...Scored 3 runs against Illinois College (Mar. 3)...Had 2 hits and 2 stolen bases against Benedictine during the Florida Games (Mar. 3)...Had 6 putouts against Rhode Island College (Mar. 15)...Scored 3 runs and 2 RBIs against Thomas (ME) (Mar. 28)...Had 4 putouts against Emmanuel College (Apr. 4)...Scored a homerun against Rivier (Apr. 9). 

2024:
Appeared and started in 38 games … Posted a .364 batting average (27-118) with two doubles, three triples and seven RBIs … Stolen 28 bases this season …  Went three for three with two RBIs and two runs scored in a 15-1 win over Neumann (Mar. 3) … Had two hits, one being a triple, and two stolen bases against Thomas (ME) (Mar. 8 - Game 2) and Rhode Island Col. (Mar. 17 - Game 2) … Went three for four at the plate with a double in a 9-1 win over Eastern Nazarene (Mar. 20 - Game 2) ... Went four for four with a triple, an RBI and three runs scored against Norwich (April 20 - Game 1) ... Recorded a 10-game hittin streak at the end of the season. 

2023: 
Appeared in 38 games … Earned GNAC All-Conference Second Team honors … Batted .365 and had a slugging percentage of .470 … Recorded 42 hits, 35 runs and 17 RBIs this season … Second in the conference for stolen bases (18) … In the outfield, she grabbed 70 putouts out of 76 total chances … Hit her first career home run to put the Sharks on the board against Emmanuel (April 12) … Had three RBIs, one hit, one run, a stolen base and a home run against Emmanuel (April 12) … Scored three runs, had two hits, one double and five RBIs against Norwich (April 22) … Registered two hits, one run and two RBIs at Eastern Nazarene (March 29 - Game 2) …Had two hits and two runs in four at-bats in the 4-1 win against UMass-Dartmouth (March 9) … Recorded a career high of three home runs in total this season …  Stole three bases in total against Anna Maria (April 21) … Slugged two hits and two runs vs. Gordon (March 5).

2022:
Appeared in 40 games … Registered eight hits, two RBI’s, two walks, and six runs scored on the season … Secured 63 putouts and one assist on the season … Batted .242 and had a slugging percentage of .333 … Had a career high in putouts of five, two times this season against Swarthmore and Eastern Nazarene (Mar. 11 and 23, respectively)

Before Simmons: 
Four-sport Varsity athlete at Marshwood High School ... Three-year Varsity letterwinner and starter in softball and volleyball ... Two-year letterwinner in indoor tracker and one year letterwinner in outdoor track ... Named team captain of the Hawks indoor and outdoor track and field team ... Received the Coaches Award for softball in 2019 and volleyball in 2018 ... Selected to the All-State second team as a centerfielder ... Earned all-academic honors all four years ... Named the 2021 offensive MVP ... Chosen as the 2021 track and field girls field athlete of the yaer ... Fifth in the state of New Hampshire for discus and 10th in shotput ... Helped the Hawks softball squad to the regional championship ... Member of the National Honors Society ... Daughter of Kelly and Jeff Anderson ... Mother, Kelly, was an All-American swimmer at Tufts. 

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Historical Player Information

  • 7

    2022First Year

    Outfield
    5'4"
    7
  • 7

    2023Sophomore

    Outfield
    5'4"
    7
  • 7

    2024Junior

    Outfield
    5'4"
    7
  • 7

    2025Senior

    Outfield
    5'4"
    7