Fifth season on the Hofstra Softball roster…Returning to the team after taking a medical red-shirt last season.
2013: Missed the entire season with an injury.
2012: First-team All-Colonial Athletic Association selection…NFCA First-Team All-Northeast Region pick…Played and started in all 57 games…One of just four Hofstra players to start every game…Batted a team-leading .364 playing mostly as a leadoff hitter…Compiled 71 hits, which was 13 more than the next closest teammate…Scored 38 runs and led the team with a .429 on-base percentage…Went 12-for-14 on stolen base attempts…Showed power as well with 11 extra-base hits (eight doubles; three triples) in 195 at-bats for a .436 slugging percentage…Made just two errors in 58 total chances for a .967 fielding percentage…Led the CAA in hits and hits per game with a 1.25 average…Finished in the CAA’s top-five in hits, triples, stolen bases, runs scored, total bases and on-base percentage…Registered 18 multi-hit games, including a pair of four-hit contests against conference foes Drexel and Delaware, respectively…Notched an eight-game hitting streak from April 7-14, going 13-for-27 during that stretch…Went 4-for-5 with four runs scored and four RBIs while finishing a home run short of the cycle versus Drexel on April 1…Batted .429 with a .507 on-base percentage in CAA play.
2011: Appeared in 49 games, including 47 starts…Batted .288 with 10 RBIs on the season…Named CAA Player of the Week after hitting 7-for-13 at the East Carolina University Pirate Classic, including 4-for-5 with two runs scored and a RBI against Kent State…Named to All-Tournament team at LSU Purple & Gold Challenge, after batting 1-for-3 off All-American pitcher Blaire Luna of Texas and hitting 2-for-3 with a triple and a run scored against Pittsburgh…Was 3-for-4 with a RBI in a win over James Madison on April 16…Batted 3-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored in a home win over Iona on March 29…Was 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles in a road win over Fordham on April 6…Was 2-for-4 with a RBI in a road win over Lehigh on April 20…Singled and scored the game’s first run in a championship round loss to Georgia State on May 13…CAA Commissioner’s Academic Award recipient.
2010: Played in 35 games, including 18 starts…Was used as a pinch-runner 17 times…Batted .304 on the year...Batted 4-for-11 in the CAA Tournament with at least one hit in every game…Had a key seventh inning single in a 7-3 comeback win over Towson, as the Pride rallied with six runs in the bottom of the seventh…Had hits in her first four starts (two against George Mason, one against Princeton, one against Rutgers)…Was 2-for-5 against No. 14 Oklahoma State in the first game of the NCAA Regionals…Also had two hits in the series opener at Georgia State…Hit .269 in conference games.
High School: Played softball at Pope John XXIII in 2008, where she pitched and played the outfield…Named the league’s pitcher of the year after finishing the season undefeated with a 1.20 ERA…Didn’t play as a senior while competing for the Jersey Intensity Gold in the spring.
Personal: Born Feb. 10, 1991…Has three sisters and one brother…Started playing softball at age 6…Also recruited by Penn State, Houston and North Carolina State…Lists This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen and The Appeal by John Grisham as her favorite books…Older sister Kaytlin played softball at Bucknell…Lists painting among her hobbies…Has volunteered at the Morris County nursing home in New Jersey…English major.
