Amber Freeman

Amber Freeman enters her first year on the Golden Bear softball staff heading into the 2023 season.

Freeman spent the last three years as the head softball coach at Vanguard University, compiling an 82-36 record with the Lions, beginning with the 2020 COVID-19 shortened season.

The native of Lakewood, California, and Mater Dei High School product went on to a multi-year standout career as a catcher at Arizona State University. She became a three-time NFCA All-American and garnered 2013 Pac-12 Player of the Year honors. Freeman stands fourth in ASU history with 56 career home runs and fifth in RBI, totaling 197. She is also fifth in Sun Devil history with 46 career doubles.

Freeman's 2015 batting average of .436 is fifth in single-season history for those tallying at least 75 at-bats. She became just the third player in ASU history to earn both First-Team All-American and First-Team Academic All-American designations.

Throughout her junior and senior seasons, she tallied a .422 batting average in 115 games played and only recorded one error in over 400 chances. She posted a career slugging percentage of .718 and an on-base percentage of .498.

Freeman also earned Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year recognition in 2015 after holding a 3.6 GPA in the classroom. A two-time Academic All-American, Freeman received her Master of Arts in Elementary Education in 2017, earning a 3.7 GPA while teaching third grade at Conchos Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona