Head softball coach Scott Woodard picked up three new transfer students who will play for him this next season. From Phoenix College, Bri Robles will fill a pitching slot. Ashly Eichenberger will hope to continue the strong play from Central Arizona College players. Former Mustangs Kristina Barr (San Diego, CA/La Costa Canyon High School) and Kortney Smith (Maricopa, AZ/Marana High School) also came from the Central Arizona program. Future Mustang Jessica Apodaca will move a bit closer to family. Apodaca graduated from Mayfield High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico but has played the last two years at Trinidad State Junior College.

Robles played four years of varsity softball at Mesa High School in Mesa, Arizona. At 5-6, she earned numerous awards for her effort, including the United States Marine Corp Distinguished Female Athlete Award, First Team All-Region (2008), East Valley Region Coach Award (2006 and 2007), All-State Honorable Mention (2008), All-State Second Team (2006), and team MVP (2008).

After Robles graduated, she went only to become a scholar athlete at Phoenix College, a junior college powerhouse in softball. In 2009, the Bears placed second at the NJCAA Women's College World Series. Robles earned NJCAA First Team All-Region and All-Arizona Community College Athletic Conference
(ACCAC) Second Team that year. This year she was named to the All-Region Second Team and the All-ACCAC Third Team.

“I am really excited about getting someone as talented as Bri to come in and throw for us,” comments Woodard. “She finished second at the national championship and was highly recruited by many NCAA Division I programs. She is capable of dominating opponents and will allow us to continue to compete at the top of the conference.”

Robles will enter WNMU as a business major.
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Eichenberger, who will be biology major at WNMU, attended Horizon High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. Under head coach Blaize Ghatti, Eichenberger was named to the All-Region Second Team her senior year. She went on to earn the school's To GPA Female Student-Athlete Award.

For the last two seasons, Eichenberger was a Vaquera at Central Arizona College. This past season the team finished with a 41-23 record and third place in the ACCAC.

“Ashly follows Kristina and Kortney as our next player from Central Arizona,” says Woodard. “She is a quality middle infielder that has exceptional foot speed and will hit in the top of the order for us. She played both middle infield spots and gives us a quality starter at either spot.”

Apodaca calls Las Cruces home now, but she played at three different high schools over her four years of interscholastic play: Mayfield High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico; Navarre High School in Navarre, Florida; and Ramstein American High School at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.

As a freshman in Germany, she helped lead her team to a European high school softball championship in 2005. She was named to the European All-Tournament First Team and All-Conference First Team. Apodaca spent the next two years in Florida where she was an All-State Honorable Mention selection and earned the State Farm Sportsmanship Award her junior year. Her team was state runner-ups and finished fifth while she was there.

Wearing a Mayfield Trojan uniform her senior year, Apodaca was named the team's MVP while assisting her team to the state quarterfinals.

In 2009, Apodaca saw limited time in the pitching circle her first year at Trinidad State Junior College because of injury. She went 2-1-1 throwing and was part of the Region IX Tournament runner-up team who posted their first 30 win season in team history.

Trinidad nearly repeated Apodaca's freshman year in 2010 with a Region IX Tournament runner-up finish and a 33-win season. Apodaca posted a 5-3 record in the circle while hitting .303 in the batter's box.

“We are excited to get a southern New Mexico player in our program,” says Woodard. “She has played two years of quality junior college softball and will come in and give us some much needed left-handed hitting. She may also see some time in the circle for us as having a left-handed pitcher is always a good thing.”

Apodaca will major in computer science at Western New Mexico.