SAN DIEGO – San Diego State softball head coach Stacey Nuveman Deniz announced her team’s three signees for the freshman class of 2028 on National Signing Day.
The Scarlet and Black will be adding Kiley Abrojena from Northern California as well as Arizonans Lucy Burroughs and Jane Ord for the 2028 season, which will be the Aztecs’ second in the Pac-12 conference.
An outfielder and catcher from Martinez, in Contra Costa County, Abrojena prepped at Carondelet High, where she lettered all four years. A captain as both a junior and senior in 2026 and 2027, Abrojena is a first team all-league player and an honor roll level student in the classroom. Outside of high school, she has been a part of three different club teams, competing for Universal Fastpitch in Martinez from 2019-23 before going to Fresno’s Sorcerer Softball from 2023-24. Most recently, Abrojena played for Elk Grove’s LTG.
Burroughs is a left-handed pitcher and first baseman from Surprise, where she competed at Willow Canyon High. Another four-year letterwinner, she is also a captain as both a junior and senior. As a freshman, Burroughs helped her team to a regional title while being named defensive player of the year, all-region first team and all-district first team. She followed it up with all-district second team finishes as both a sophomore and junior and helped the team to another regional title in 2025 before a second-place finish in 2026. Burroughs played her club ball in Phoenix, where she spent seven seasons with Team Hustle LaDrigue and one with Rogue FC Kaye, being named the USSSA Pitcher of the Year in 2022.
Coming from Arcadia High in Scottsdale, Ord is an outfielder and excelled in her four seasons of varsity ball for the Titans, for whom she will serve as team captain in 2027. Ord was named to the all-region and all-district first teams in each of her first three seasons of high school, helping Arcadia to a pair of Desert Sky Region titles. In addition, she was named Desert Sky Player of the Year as a junior. At the plate across her three seasons to date, Ord has accumulated a .457 batting average, .521 on-base percentage, .623 slugging percentage, 1.144 OPS, 73 RBIs, 126 hits, five home runs, 48 stolen bases and 104 runs scored. The outfielder spent a pair of seasons playing for Phoenix’s AZ Hotshots before spending three years at Rogue FC Kaye, where she has recorded a hit in the majority of her at bats across three full seasons. Extra Innings softball named Ord one of the top 25 slappers in the nation and ranked her 36th in the country, 14th in the Southwest region and first in Arizona among outfielders. She also earned a spot on the Extra Innings National Elite Honor Roll and the PGF National High School All-American Watchlist. In 2024, she was named to the 18U Early Thanksgiving Showcase All-Tournament Team.
The 2027 Aztec softball season will open up with a tournament in Hawai’i from February 12-14 before San Diego State returns to the mainland to host the Campbell/Cartier Classic, held at SDSU Softball Stadium from February 19-21. That event will feature Texas, Kentucky, Loyola Marymount and Portland State in addition to SDSU.