Keagan Rothrock
Keagan Rothrock is an American college softball pitcher for Florida. As a freshman in 2024, she was named SEC Freshman of the Year.
High school career
Rothrock attended Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. She missed her freshman season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. During the 2021 season, in her sophomore year, she posted a 24–2 record with a 0.13 earned run average, allowing 40 hits and six walks in innings while striking out 364 batters, as she led the Royals to the Class 4A state championship. Offensively she hit.442 with three home runs and 21 run batted in. Following the season she was named the Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year.During the 2022 season, in her junior year, she posted a 28–0 record with a 0.70 ERA, allowing 51 hits and 17 walks in innings while striking out 366 batters, as she led the Royals to their second consecutive Class 4A state championship. Offensively she hit.523 with 14 home runs and 55 RBIs and 1.628 OPS. Following an outstanding season she was named the Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year and Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year.
Rothrock experienced an intense pain in her calves during the fall of 2022. After a series of tests and scans came up empty, she was tested for compartment syndrome, an ailment where the muscles grow faster than the fascia tissue surrounding them. Most people experience the injury in only two compartments, however, Rothrock was among the 1% who experienced it in all four. She underwent surgery to relieve pressure in her right leg on January 13, 2023, then from her left leg on February 3, 2023. Three weeks later, stitches were removed from her left leg and the incision on her right leg was swabbed for infection. Lab results revealed an extremely rare infection in her leg that needed to be addressed immediately. She was cleared to play softball 30 minutes before the Roncalli softball team departed for its season opener. During the 2023 season, in her senior year, she posted a 25–2 record with a 0.50 ERA, allowing 62 hits in 158 innings while striking out 315 batters. Offensively she hit.490 with nine home runs and 46 RBIs and an.864 slugging percentage and led the Royals to their third consecutive Class 4A state championship game, before losing in the finals. Following the season she was named the Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year for the third consecutive year.
She finished her high school career with a 77–4 record with a 0.45 ERA and 1,080 strikeouts. She issued only 56 walks, pitched 22 no-hitters and 13 perfect games. Offensively she batted.488 over three seasons at Roncalli, with 143 hits, 26 home runs, 122 RBIs and scoring 32 runs. She only struck out 12 times in her career and drew 14 walks. She led the Royals to three consecutive IHSAA Class 4A state championship game appearances and back-to-back state titles in 2021 and 2022. She was a three-time NFCA high school All-American, three-time Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year, three-time first team all-state and first team all-county honoree.
Rothrock was ranked as the nation's No. 1 prospect by Extra Inning Softball coming out of high school and had been verbally committed to play college softball at Florida since she was in seventh grade. On November 9, 2022, she signed her National Letter of Intent to play at Florida, making her part of the top-rated recruiting class of 2023 per Extra Innings Softball.