Auburn players always surround home plate to greet their teammate after a home run, but the celebration for Tannon Snow on Saturday was particularly meaningful.

Six hundred and thirty-one days had gone by since her last home run, so long the Auburn redshirt-sophomore infielder could not recall her solo shot against Weber State when she was a freshman at Washington on May 20, 2016.

So much had happened in her life since.

Transferring across the country to Auburn after the 2016 season was only the beginning of what has been an arduous path for Snow, who missed the 2017 season due to seizures that have since been diagnosed as epilepsy, which she revealed last week.

After recording her first hit, a two-run home run off the scoreboard in left field, and a walk-off RBI single to help No. 13 Auburn run-rule Furman 9-1 in six innings on Saturday, Snow was overcome with emotion trying to encapsulate the last 18 months.

"It's been quite the journey," she said. "I wouldn't be able to do it without this Auburn family. They've had my back through this whole thing. The support is unbelievable. Coach (Mickey) Dean, coach (Clint) Myers when they were here, (athletic trainer) Lana (Meeks), Auburn, everyone, it's been incredible. My family, my teammates, everyone. Not being able to drive getting everywhere, it's been, I can't even speak. I'm speechless."

Snow said she had a seizure in September 2016 and it became "an ongoing thing." She returned home to California to be evaluated at a local hospital.

Taylon Snow, now a freshman at Auburn, did all she could to support her sister while finishing her senior year of high school.

"Having to experience some of the episodes that she had really got to me," Taylon Snow said. "I just had to be there for her and help her overcome this as much as I could."

They'd hoped to play alongside one another in the field in college, with Taylon at short and Tannon at third, and perhaps that will happen in the future. For now, Tannon Snow is expected to hit exclusively this season and when she crushed the home run on Saturday, her sister said it was indescribable.

"Seeing that ball hit off that bat," Taylon Snow said, "it lit up my world."

Tannon Snow's teammates were ecstatic for her on Saturday.

"She deserves every bit of it - she deserves more - but she deserves every bit of it," first baseman Justus Perry said. "She's awesome. She's always looking out for other people and that's something that's rare, especially in sports, but she's worried about you and not herself and that's awesome."

Since he was hired in September, Dean maintained optimism Tannon Snow would play this season. Even after she was diagnosed with epilepsy in November, he felt she'd be able to return to the field.

"You have no idea how proud I am of that kid, just her courage and the things that she's been through and for her to be able to speak publicly now and talk about those things," Dean said. "I think she's just someone that young ladies can really look up to because people were saying a lot of things and questioning a lot of things and she's a great kid."

Tannon Snow wanted to share her story before the season and inspire others.

"It's been a tough year and I wanted to get it out there," she said. "I'm thankful that I'm able to go out on the field and still get to play the game that I love and I hope that I can inspire other athletes that have epilepsy. With posting that, I found out that there are other people that have epilepsy and they're playing a sport. There's other people out there and it's awesome that I can still do what I love."

James Crepea is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @JamesCrepea.