2017: Second on the pitching staff with five wins… Tied for third in the Ivy League with 28 appearances… Tossed eight shutout innings, yielding only two hits with seven strikeouts at Rider… Pitched two innings to earn a save in win over Central Connecticut.
2016: Second team All-Ivy pitcher… In 15 Ivy appearances, posted a 1.77 earned run average, tossed six complete games and won five games… Led the Ivy League with 145.1 innings pitched and 36 appearances… ERA of 3.08 was seventh, and she was eighth with eight victories… Top performance came against Columbia when she pitched eight shutout innings, scattered eight hits and struck out four in a gut-wrenching 1-0 extra-inning victory… Shared the team’s Most Improved Player Award.
2015: Led the pitching staff with 16 starts… Second in wins (4), ERA (5.70) and strikeouts (40)… Pitched a five-hit shutout in the season finale at Brown… Tossed a four-hitter with four strikeouts in win over Harvard.
2014: Led the pitching staff in earned run average (2.64), strikeouts (39), innings (103.1), complete games (7) and saves (1)… Finished seventh in the Ivy League in ERA and tied for sixth in innings pitched… Earned her first career victory by tossing five innings without allowing an earned run at Brown… Two days later pitched 4.1 scoreless innings of relief to earn another win over Brown… Also saw time at first base and had 37 at bats… First career hit was a single against Green Bay.
Off the Field:
- Summer study abroad in Yale film and literature course in Prague, Czech Republic
- Weekly volunteer at my residential college buttery - the Saybrook Squiche
- Fiction writer
Before Yale: Cary-Grove High School record holder for lowest career earned run average (0.97), career victories (89) and career shutouts (37)… Struck out 765 hitters in her career… At the plate, tied the school record with 13 career home runs… Had 83 career RBI... Three-time Illinois Coaches Association all-state selection… 2011 Northwest Herald Softball Player of the Year… Four-time Fox Valley all-conference selection… Four-year starter and letterwinner… Helped lead Cary-Grove to three conference championships… Played club softball for the Illinois Chill.
Personal: Feed My Starving Children volunteer… McHenry County Peer Jury participant… Volunteer assistant coach for 10-and-under Northern Ice Fast Pitch softball team… Has a passion for writing and is writing and editing a fictional book series.
Why Yale? “All in one, Yale provides a rigorous academic atmosphere while allowing me to pursue my dream of being a Division I college athlete and becoming a writer. I cannot imagine a better place for me to grow as a person and a student than at Yale. It is my dream school, and I could not be blessed with a greater opportunity.”