2027 Softball Roster
Riley Zache
- Class:
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Position:
- UT
- Height:
- 5-9
- B/T:
- R/R
- Hometown:
- Niles, Mich.
- High School:
- Saint Joseph (Ind.)
Before Michigan
• Spent two years at the University of Oklahoma (2025-26)
• Appeared in nine games, scoring three runs while going 2-for-4 with an RBI
• Missed all of 2026 season with injury
• Drove in a run against #15 Alabama in 2025 Super Regional
• Named to the 2026 SEC Honor Roll, 2025 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
Prep
• Graduated from Saint Joseph High School (2024)
• Three-time all-state honoree, earning Class 4A All-State first team recognition as a junior and senior (2023, '24) and a second team nod as a sophomore (2022)
• Named the 2024 Johnny Bench Award winner as the top senior catcher in the state of Indiana
• Three-time All-Northern Indiana Conference (NIC) first team selection
• Helped lead Saint Joseph to the 2022 Indiana Class 3A state championship
• Graduated with 18 -- of a possible 25 -- Saint Joseph offensive school records
• Posted a career .503 batting average with 192 hits, 155 runs and 138 RBI as well as a .545 on-base percentage and .960 slugging percentage on 50 career doubles, 13 triples and 33 home runs
• Hit .537 with 11 home runs, 49 runs and 45 RBI as a junior • Played club ball for Tennessee Mojo and the Beverly Bandits, helping the latter to a fifth-place finish at the 2023 PGF National Championships and a 2022 Top Gun Invitational championship
• National Honor Society; four-year high honors student
• Rated as the No. 21 player in Extra Inning Softball's 2024 Extra Elite 100 rankings
Personal
• Enrolled in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts; undeclared major
• Born on July 7, 2005
• Daughter of Bobby and Leslie Zache
• Mother played softball at Ferris State (1994-95), while father ran track and field at Western Michigan (1992-96)
• Has one sister, Berkley, who also currently plays softball at Michigan
• Aunt Kelli Martin played softball at Western Michigan and Bethel College; aunt Kendra LeBold played softball at Bethel; uncle Tommy Stilson played baseball at Stanford
