Sashel Palacios - Director of Operations - Softball - Softball Support Staff

Sashel Palacios

Title:
Director of Operations - Softball
Email:
spalacios@calbaptist.edu
Phone:
552-8272

Sashel Palacios joined the California Baptist University Softball staff in June of 2025 as the Director of Softball Operations.

She has been playing softball since the age of four. She lists qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with Team Mexico as her proudest athletic accomplishment. Palacios was a member of Team Mexico playing in the Softball World Cup in 2014 and 2015. She also competed in the 2017 and 2019 Pan American Games with Team Mexico and won a silver medal during the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games. She led Team Mexico to a fourth-place finish at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Palacios began her professional career with the NPF's Chicago Bandits in 2018 and the played for the Cleveland Comets in 2019. At Arizona State, she was a four-year letter winner and started 146-163 career games. She averaged a career .322 with 18 HRs and 88 RBI's with the Sun Devils. She also earned First-Team All-PAC 12 Honors as a senior. In her last season, she played Athletes Unlimited with her little sister Sharlize.She drafted her sister to her team, and they went undefeated, finishing the season at a career-high 10th.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with family, traveling, and going to the beach. Her younger sister, Sharlize, is a catcher on the UCLA softball team after playing three years at Arizona. Their father, Kiko, was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 1992 MLB Draft and was picked up by the Detroit Tigers in the 1993 Draft.