- 2024 Academic All-RMAC honor roll
- 2023 D2ADA Academic Achievement Award
- 2023 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, spring semester
- 2023 D2CCA All-South Central Region second team
- 2023 All-RMAC honorable mention
- 2023 Academic All-RMAC honor roll
- 2022 All-RMAC second team
- 2021 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, fall semester
2024: Appeared in 46 games and started 39 of them. Hit .312, recorded six doubles, two triples, was second on the team in home runs with seven, had 35 RBI and went 3-for-3 on the base paths. Had eight multi-hit games including two three-hits games. Went 3-for-3 with two runs, a career-high six RBI and was a single short of the cycle against St. Mary's. She also had a three-hit game against the Colorado School of Mines in the RMAC Tournament where she went 3-for-3 with three runs scored, four RBI and two home runs. It was the third two-home run game of her career.
2023: D2CCA All-South Central Region second team selection after earning All-RMAC honorable mention. ... Ranked fifth in the RMAC with 0.86 RBIs per game and 14th with a .662 slugging percentage. ... Batted .355 (50-for-141) with 13 doubles, one triple, nine homers and 43 RBIs. ... Second on the team in batting, tied for first in homers, and first in RBIs. ... Third on club in slugging (.652), tied for fourth in on-base percentage (.411), third in OPS (1.063), fourth in runs (37), fifth in hits, second in doubles, second in total bases (92). ... Had five stolen bases in six attempts. ... Started 44 games at catcher. ... Extended her hitting streak to eight games, during which she batted .520 (13-for-25) with three homers and 11 RBIs, through the first three games of an April 28-29 series against New Mexico Highlands. ... Delivered the game-winning RBI in each of the first three games of a four-game sweep at Regis on April 23-24 with a two-run, third-inning homer in the opener, a fourth-inning RBI single in the second game, and a second-inning homer in the third game. ... Drove in a career-best five runs in the come-from-behind, 13-11 win over Chadron State on March 14, launching a grand slam in the fourth inning that cut a 9-4 deficit to 9-8. ... Had back-to-back three-hit games (going 6-for-6 overall) on March 5 against CSU Pueblo and March 11 against Chadron State. ... Put together an eight-game hitting streak from Feb. 18 through March 11, batting .619 (13-for-21) with eight RBIs. ... Had her second career two-homer game (both against Adams State) while driving in four runs in an 11-9 win over the Grizzlies in the first game of a Feb. 17 doubleheader. ... Slugged a home run in season-opening 11-5 win over Texas A&M International on Feb. 3.
2022: All-RMAC second team selection as a true freshman catcher. ... Appeared in 49 games, starting 44, and batted .311 (41-for-132) with 13 doubles, seven homers and 35 RBIs. ... Third on the team with a .583 slugging percentage. ... RBI machine drove in 28 RBIs runs in her last 25 games, including 23 in 18 games from March 12 through April 15. ... Bashed two homers while going 3-for-3 with three RBIs in an 8-0 win over Adams State in the first game of an April 29 doubleheader, kicking off a series in which she was 5-for-8 (.625) and had two doubles. ... Over 13 games from March 24 through April 16, batted .452 (19-for-42) with seven doubles, two homers and 18 RBIs. ... Had a six-game hitting streak from April 10 through April 16, batting .526 (10-for-19 with four doubles, one homer and seven RBIs. ... In a 3-1 series win over UCCS on April 9-10, hit .571 (8-for-14) with one homer, four doubles and six RBIs, and delivered a walk-off RBI single to win the opening game 4-3. Was 5-for-8 with three doubles, a homer and four RBIs in the April 10 doubleheader. She drove in MSU Denver’s first two runs in the second game with a second-inning homer and a third-inning ground rule double, putting the Roadrunners ahead to stay at 2-1. Her walkoff single came in the series opener, when she helped MSU Denver overcome a 3-0 deficit with an RBI double in the first and then her RBI single in the seventh that capped a 3-for-4 game. ... Had a four-game multi-RBI streak from the second game of a March 27 doubleheader through the first game of an April 3 doubleheader, batting .385 (5-for-13) with two doubles and nine RBIs. ... Clubbed tiebreaking solo homer as a pinch-hitter in the top of the seventh in the second game of a March 26 doubleheader at Black Hills State, though MSU Denver gave up four runs in the bottom of the seventh. ... Homered in back-to-back games March 12 (second game) and March 13 (first game) during four-game series at CSU-Pueblo, part of a 4-for-11 (.364 series) in which she drove in three runs and drew three walks. ... Thumped two doubles in three at-bats, including a game-tying RBI in the fourth inning, as MSU Denver came from behind for an 8-7 win over St. Edward’s (Texas) in the second game of a Feb. 20 doubleheader. ... Delivered her first career multi-hit game by going 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI in an 8-2 loss to St. Mary’s (Texas) in the second game of a Feb. 19 doubleheader. ... Made her MSU Denver debut as the starting catcher and cleanup hitter on Feb. 5, 2022 against Fort Hays State (Kan.) and went 1-for-4 with an RBI.
High School: Class 5A all-state honorable mention, 2020. ... All-Jeffco League first team, 2020. ... Selected to play in CCGS All-State Game, 2020. ... Batted .607 (34-for-56) as a senior in the fall of 2020, with four doubles, five triples, four homers and 16 RBIs in 16 games, for an on-base percentage of .621, slugging percentage of 1.071 and OPS of 1.692. ... For her career, batted .478 with seven homers and 30 RBIs in 40 games while compiling .500 on-base percentage, .830 slugging percentage, and 1.331 OPS. ... All-Jeffco League second team, 2019. ... As a junior in 2019, batted .382 (29-for-76) with five doubles, four triples, three homers and 14 RBIs in 22 games, with a .412 on-base percentage, .671 slugging percentage and 1.083 OPS. ... Coached by Wendy Davies. ... Academic all-state first team selection, 2019.
Club: Played for Firecrackers Gale-Bricker Gold. ... Coached by Scott Bricker.
Personal: Born Jaiden Lee Ruth Geist in Westminster, Colo. ... Birthday is Aug. 18. ... Daughter of Shauna and Brandon Parrish and Eric and Bethany Riggs-Geist. ... Has a brother (Brody) and a twin sister Makena. ... Makena Geist plays softball at UCCS. ... Mother, Shauna, played softball at Northern Colorado. ... Majoring in speech, language and hearing sciences.
