2018: Honorable mention All-Ivy selection... Led the Ivy League with 24 stolen bases... Tied for the league lead with 20 walks and 10th in on base percentage at .428... Led the team with 17 runs scored and third with 32 hits... One of only two players to start all 40 games... Batted .308 in 21 Ivy games... Had eight multi-hit games, including a team-best three, three-hit games.
2017: Second team All-Ivy outfielder… Second in the Ivy League with 17 stolen bases… Also in the top-10 in the league with a .438 on base percentage… Her .500 on base percentage in Ivy games was third in the league… Raised her batting average more than 100 points from her rookie season to .336… Led the team in hits (45) and runs scored (27) and drew a team-best 21 walks… Had 11 multi-hit games, which was second on the team… Recipient of the team’s Most Improved Player Award.
2016: Started 42 games, the most of any freshman… Second on the team with seven stolen bases… Had seven multi-hit games… Went 4-for-7 with a pair of RBI in the doubleheader with Fairfield.
High School: Southern Arizona Player of the Year as a senior at Cienega High School… Holds Cienega’s career (77) and single season (35) stolen base record… Batted .591 as a senior with a .646 on base percentage and 50 runs scored… Two-time Southern Arizona Division II Section II first team selection… Cienega’s Offensive MVP in his junior year… Four-year starter… Helped lead Cienega to 2015 Division II state championship.
Travel Team: Played for the Arizona Hot Shots 18U Gold.
Personal: Daughter of Pat and Julie Kennedy… Community Food Drive Coordinator… Ben’s Bell and Gospel Rescue Mission volunteer… National Honor Society President.
Why Yale? “By choosing Yale, I didn’t have to sacrifice athletics or academics – both of which are important aspects of my life. I get to continue both of my passions at the highest level.”